Architcecture for winbindd client character conversion.

[Steve Langasek]

On Wed, Aug 29, 2007 at 04:44:13PM -0700, Jeremy Allison wrote:
> 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 :-).

Sorry for the topic drift, but in the context of Colin's question and Simo's
reply, the unix charset of smbd is very much relevant...

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