known BUG "multi-byte character set in usernames"

Gerald Carter jerry at samba.org
Sat Jun 1 18:23:02 GMT 2002


On Fri, 31 May 2002, Juergen Hasch wrote:

> Now I never would have brought this up because I don't care to much for 2.2 
> and I was just curious when I made the patches. But since someone asked :-)
> The names/groups are transferred by rpc and converted from unicode like this:
> 	unistr2_to_ascii(t, &info1.str[j].uni_acct_name, sizeof(pstring));
> Adding the line
> 	dos_to_unix(t);
> makes the umlaute appear.
> Now the charset conversion may be totally wrong there, I believed it to be 
> *easiest* patch.

please send me thispatch for 2.2 if you ave it.  Thanks.







cheers, jerry
 ---------------------------------------------------------------------
 Hewlett-Packard                                     http://www.hp.com
 SAMBA Team                                       http://www.samba.org
 --                                            http://www.plainjoe.org
 "Sam's Teach Yourself Samba in 24 Hours" 2ed.      ISBN 0-672-32269-2
 --"I never saved anything for the swim back." Ethan Hawk in Gattaca--





More information about the samba-technical mailing list