special characters handling with smbtar/smbclient

Jeremy Allison jra at samba.org
Wed Jan 16 08:58:47 GMT 2002


On Wed, Jan 16, 2002 at 05:23:28PM +0100, Pierre Volcke wrote:
> 
> hi,
> 
> I use Samba2.2.2 + Amanda 2.4.2p2 to backup NT boxes. 
> 
> I had some troubles when backing up files 
> whose name includes specific french chars, 
> that is, accents. 
> 
> the error message is :
> 
> ? ERRDOS - ERRbadfile opening remote file <filename>
> 
> After scanning through a few mail archives,
> it seems that the trouble comes from "smbclient"
> or its wrapper "smbtar", with Samba 2.2.2 -
> the problem seemed not to occur in the 2.2.0 release.
> 
> "client codepage" is set to 850 (Latin1),
> but I don't have any "valid chars" set yet.
> 
> Is it really a bug, or did I miss something
> into the smb.conf file?
> 
> If this is a bug, is there any patch somewhere?

Yes it is a bug. It's fixed in the current 2.2.3 CVS
(available as SAMBA_2_2 tag).

Jeremy.




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