[Samba] Multiple client code pages?

[jra at dp.samba.org]

On Sat, Dec 07, 2002 at 03:31:39PM +0100, Trebisch Tamas wrote:
> Hi guruz,
> 
> I've just installed samba 2.2.7 and I'd like to
> set multiple code page support.
> We use roman, chinese and cyrillic letters
> in our documents and in file names.
> I've already set
> 
> client code page = 852
> character set = ISO8859-2
> 
> But now if I copy our chinese or russian
> documents to the samba server than it chunks
> the file names and makes _~0%.doc, _~w2.doc 
> and similar names instead of leave the 
> originals...
> 
> So, what should I set to resolve this ugly
> problem?

Unfortunately, Samba 2.2.x doesn't support multiple
simultaneous codepages. The only solution to this using
Samba is to try a 3.0 build with the unix character set
set to utf8, which handles all codepages.

Sorry to give you the bad news,

Jeremy.