[Samba] Caracteres ñ á é ó ú en archives names not are reading

[Romy Perez Moreno]

I tried this:

        dos charset = CP850
        unix charset = ISO8859-1

and my users can read their files now. I'll wait for a couple of weeks and 
then go back to UTF8. Mean while, they are warned not to use any rare 
character in the file names.

romy

On 18 Nov 2003, Andrew Bartlett wrote:

> On Tue, 2003-11-18 at 07:26, Ed Holden wrote:
> > A translation, for anyone who knows the answer ...
> > 
> > 
> > We've migrated from Samba 2.x to version 3 and have a problem wherein 
> > Windows clients can't see files that contain the characters ñ, á, é, í, 
> > ó, or ú.  This is a serious problem because we have a lot of files 
> > containing these letters.
> > 
> > Is there any way to solve this?
> 
> This is the 'unix charset' problem.  You have two options:
> 
> Convert the filenames on the server to UTF8
> 
> or
> 
> Set the unix charset to what your clients were using as their DOS
> charset (for example, CP850).  
> 
> If you can manage it, then converting the filenames is a much better
> option - as UTF8 can represent all possible unicode values that can
> occour in CIFS.  Bad things happen when we cannot convert names :-(
> 
> But changing the 'unix charset' is easier.  
> 
> Andrew Bartlett
> 
> 

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