[Samba] problems with ae, oe, ue etc.

Christopher Odenbach odenbach at hni.upb.de
Mon Jun 30 12:38:39 GMT 2003


Hi,

> i got some problems with the words ä (=ae), ü (=ue), ö (=oe) etc. on
> a redhat 9.0 with samba 2.2.8a-1.
> when i create a dir on a share with this words like "prüfen"
> (=pruefen) i can access the dir.
> when i try to access the dir over a ssh session the dir is called
> "pr?fen".
>
> is there a way to enable ä, ü, ö etc? maybe after a backup the dirs
> are not correctly backuped or restored after a crash.
> i think some days or weeks ago here also posted something like my
> problem but i dont find it because i dont know the keywords for it.

Use

        client code page        = 850
        character set           = iso8859-1

in your smb.conf. That does the trick here.

Christopher

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