Samba 1.9.18 DOS to UNIX and back with ASCII

[William Stuart]

This is a universal problem in UNIX and NT integration.  AFAIK, SAMBA does
nothing to make this conversion.

There are folks who are working on a solution, but it won't be perfect.

The problem lies in the question: "When do I convert?"

It is very difficult, if not impossible, to dectect a binary files vs. text
files.  This is why FTP programs require you to select "image" or "ASCII".

The only way I know to do this is with extensions or MIME types.  This will
require some disipline on your users part to standardize the naming
conventions.
---
William Stuart (william at hae.com)
Si hoc legere scis nimium eruditionis habes


> -----Original Message-----
> From: samba at samba.org [mailto:samba at samba.org]On Behalf Of Eric Sammons
> Sent: Thursday, January 07, 1999 8:01 AM
> To: Multiple recipients of list
> Subject: Samba 1.9.18 DOS to UNIX and back with ASCII
>
>
> I have found that Samba does not seem to handle the ^M EOL character
> very well.  This seems to be a big problem with Windows Notepad and then
> in vi for UNIX.  Other than the ux2dos and dos2ux commands does anyone
> know of another solution or if this has been fixed in a more current
> release of Samba?
>
> Thanks!
> Eric
>
>