[Samba] Browse problem with non-english characters

Jeremy Allison jra at samba.org
Thu Sep 4 16:41:33 GMT 2003


On Thu, Sep 04, 2003 at 10:39:55AM +0200, WIm Bakker wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I did a test install with samba-3.0rc1 and encountered the following problem:
> All directories containing files/directories with names that use non-english 
> characters like :  ë ê é è , and so on 
> where no longer browseable. Windows client would freeze on trying to access 
> those directories. Only after I manually removed those characters and 
> exchanged with standard english characters the directories would become
> browseable again. The strange thing is that when the client would change
> the character back then to the original non-english character it was allright,
> the characters were recognizable and no browsing problems. What has changed
> in samba-3.0rc1 as far as those characters are concerned?

Fixed in RC2.

Jeremy.



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