Architcecture for winbindd client character conversion.

Jeremy Allison jra at samba.org
Wed Aug 29 23:44:13 GMT 2007


On Wed, Aug 29, 2007 at 03:09:37PM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote:
> 
> I would like to stress this caveat; if there's any possibility at all that a
> user will be able to change the "system default locale" for a system after
> install, then having samba automatically change its unix charset at the same
> time and thereby change how it interprets filenames will break the reading
> of any non-ascii filenames already on the system.

No, smbd will not change its unix charset - this is a winbindd 
issue :-). Shesh, read the proposal :-).

Jeremy.


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