[Samba] UTF8 not working - solved.

Jeremy Allison jra at samba.org
Sun Feb 18 02:31:55 GMT 2007


On Sun, Feb 18, 2007 at 02:02:26PM +1300, Jason Haar wrote:

> We use CentOS4.4 servers with Samba 3.0.24 to mount many Windows servers
> for various reasons. Should we ensure we use the iocharset=utf8 option
> to ensure best "compatibility" with the backend Win2K and Win2K3 servers?

Definately set the backend charsets to utf8 for
best compatibility with *anything* :-).

> (I assuming all Win2K/WinwK3 servers are utf8?)

Essentially (although I think they're utf16 internally,
or maybe utf32).

Jeremy.


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