[Samba] samba & libiconv

[Jeremy Allison]

On Mon, Nov 02, 2009 at 09:45:37PM +0100, theHog wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I am building a NAS that only has a couple of SATA disks attached (no USB, no
> CD/DVD, no NFS, no ...). Since the available space for the rootfs is limited
> (only 8 MB), I'd like to omit libiconv because this library takes 875 Kbytes.
> 
> The filesystem on the disks will be ext3. UClibc is built with WCHAR support.
> Can I build Samba 3.3.8 without libiconv and still have unicode filenames
> (russian, english, ...) displayed correctly in Windows and Linux clients?

No. Samba needs libiconv to do the utf8 <--> UCS2 translations for
clients.