[Samba] Problem with German Umlauts

Giulio Orsero giulioo at pobox.com
Fri Oct 24 15:47:54 GMT 2003


On Fri, 24 Oct 2003 17:32:16 +0200, "Sebastian" <samba at basti79.de> wrote:


>Following configuration i used before samba 3:
>	character set = ISO8859-1
>	codepage = CP850
>
>I could read an write files with umlauts from my Win2k Client. Doing an
>ls at the linux console showed a ? (question mark) instead the umlaut,
>but using mc (Midnight Commander) shows the right char. I was quite
>happy with this setup.
>
>Now, with samba 3.0.0final-1 (from Debian/sarge), I tried this setup:
>	dos charset = CP850
>	unix charset = ASCII
>	display charset = LOCALE

Use
unix charset = iso8859-1
display charset = iso8859-1 (don't know if locale is better)
dos charset = cp850

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