[Samba] Re: Character set conversion problems with 3.0

[Gerald (Jerry) Carter]

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Jérôme Fenal wrote:
| 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.

or try 3.0.1rc2.  We've added some internal code to
work around common character set issues like these.





cheers, jerry
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