Antwort: Re: [Samba] Samba 3.3.4 Umlaut in Share comment

[William Jojo]

Christian Perrier wrote:
> Quoting Howard Allison (howard.allison at pva.sozvers.at):
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>>> How is the smb.conf file encoded? Is it UTF-8 or ISO-8859-1?
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>> I assume ISO8859-1(In the smitty 'convert flat file' menu UTF-8 isn't an
>> option for the target - there are a few issues with the utf-8 packages for
>> AIX 6... they don't seem to exist...
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>> In any case it's the same smb.conf that worked in 3.0.32...with umlauts...
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> IIRC, full Unicode-only internal handling on strings has only been
> completed in 3.2 (samba developers would probably better confirm this
> than me) so it wouldn't be surprising that it doesn't work anymore.
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> You really should convert that file to UTF-8:
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> iconv -f iso-8859-1 -t utf-8 <smb.conf >smb.conf.new
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> Hopefully, AIX 6 has iconv..:-)...otherwise you need to edit the file
> on an UTF-8 enabled system (any recent Linux distro is probably well
> suited).
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It does, but the AIX iconv is deficient (and has been for some time). 
You will likely need GNU libiconv (1.11 or higher - 1.13 is now available).

You can also download the AIX binaries from my site. :-) Just follow the 
Binaries link from the Samba site.


Cheers,
Bill

> at worst, just try replacing the umlauts with ASCII characters, just
> to see (of course that will lead to Ugly German...).
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