RE: [Samba] Caracteres ñ á é ó ú enarchives names not are reading

[Thiago Lima]

I had the same problem some time ago and I changed the unix charset. How
to convert the filenames to the correct charset? And how to discover
what charset is beeing using in a file?

regards.
thiago.



> 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 :-(