[Samba] LF vs CRLF (Was: Mapping a network drive to a Windows Drive Letter)

[Wolfgang Ratzka]

stuart.jamieson at dstintl.com schrieb:

> We have this working.
> 
> however
> 
> Some developers edit files using "windows editors"  and when they then copy
> them to the  Windows Drive Letter  which is mapped to a Unix machine, the
> resultant file  is full of  ^M  characters..... build breaks..... and so on
> 
> Until now we have been telling users to run "dos2unix"  beforehand,  but
> somebody told me  that "Samba"  can handle this if properly configured ?
> 
> Is this possible ?    If so can somebody please help me  ?

This cannot be done. Samba would need to decide for every file whether it
is DOS text, that needs to be recoded, or a binary file, which must not be
touched.
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