[Samba] scandinavian letters or charset problem?

[Andrew Bartlett]

On Fri, 2004-03-26 at 17:56, Pirkka Luukkonen wrote:
> >> Hi!
> >>
> >> This teamware mailclient (teamware.com) that we use at the office has
> >> problems adding files as attachments from our Samba 3.0.2a share. The
> >> attachment file browser sees the files but fails to add them as
> >> attachments (with an error message: "valid.stf - file not found"
> >> regardless of the file name in question). I tracked this thing down to
> >> scandinavian letters (if your mail client supports it you should see
> >> these åäöÅÄÖ) in directory names.
> >>
> >> example:
> >> g:\some-directory\some-file.png        Works OK
> >> g:\scandiåöä\some-file.png         Doesn't work.
> >>
> >> Anywhere else in Windows XP samba directories work just fine with
> >> scandinavian letters. This is the only program that behaves like this
> >> and I haven't received any help from vendor or manufacturer and they are
> >> as amazed as I am.
> >>
> >> Server is Samba 3.0.2a with winbind and the charsets are:
> >>         dos charset = CP850
> >>         unix charset = UTF-8
> >>
> >> Clients are Windows XP/2k/NT and Teamware Office 5.3/6.0.
> >
> > In the same way that Samba has had to deal with the move to unicode, so
> > have many windows applications.  In windows, the transition is to a new
> > collection of 'W' functions, for 'wide' character set.  This is a lot of
> > work, and many applications instead convert back and forth to the old
> > ASCII or OEM code page.  If your user's profile/localle is incorrect,
> > then this might be part of the issue.  The correct solution may be for
> > your application to be at least partially recoded using these
> > functions...
> >
> > How well does this work against a win2k server?  If it doesn't fail,
> > then we have something more fishy going on...
> 
> I tested unix charsets ascii, iso8859-1 and iso8859-15 with Samba and it did
> no use. I also tried win2k and nt server shares and they worked like a
> charm. It seems clear, that the problem I have is somewhere between Teamware
> Office and Samba server. Some exception that it cannot handle, perhaps.

Can you make sure this is filed as a bug?  If we differ in behaviour
from what Win2k does, then it's a bug...

If you can get any more detail from the application vendor, then that
would be very useful too...

Andrew Bartlett

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Manager, Authentication Subsystems, Samba Team  abartlet at samba.org
Student Network Administrator, Hawker College   abartlet at hawkerc.net
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