[Samba] Re: Character set conversion problems with 3.0

[Jérôme Fenal]

John P. Nelson wrote:
> I've just compiled Samba 3.0.0 on a Solaris 8 system (gcc, if it
> matters), and whenever I run anything from the samba suite, I get a
> series of error message about character set conversions:
> 
>     Conversion from UCS-2LE to CP850 not supported
>     Conversion from UTF8 to CP850 not supported
>     ...
> 
> and about 10 more, all involving CP850 (the "standard" DOS codepage,
> presumably).  Now, obviously I've misconfigured something (iconv?),
> either at compile time or at run time.  Do I need to recompile to fix
> this, or is it something I need to do in the smb.conf or other
> control file?
> 
> I don't really care about character conversions - I'm happy to let
> Samba do whatever the "default" thing is, if I could just get it to
> shut up.
> 
> Any ideas?
> 
Install libiconv first (either from source or from a package as 
delivered by sunfreeware.com), then configure --with-libiconv.

HTH,

J.

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