[Samba] Conversion error: Incomplete multibyte sequence

[Jeremy Allison]

On Mon, Jul 07, 2014 at 09:29:42PM +0200, KONFERENCE wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I tried the migration from samba 3 to a sernet-samba-ad-4.1.9-8.
> My samba 3 has tdbsam backend, and "Full Name" (pdbedit -Lv) contains umlauts.
> 
> If I run /usr/bin/samba-tool domain classicupgrade, I will see error:
> "Conversion error: Incomplete multibyte sequence"
> 
> I had in my old smb.conf:
> display charset = iso8859-2
> dos charset = cp852
> unix charset = iso8859-2
> 
> In i18n:
> LANG="cs_CZ"
> SUPPORTED="cs_CZ:cs:en_US:en"
> SYSFONT="lat2-sun16"
> SYSFONTACM="iso02"
> 
> 
> I am thinking probable cause is encode file passdb.tdb
> 
> Could you please solution to this?

I would suggest moving to utf8 as your
unix charset. That should be able to
cope with any character encoded in iso8859-2.