fredag 3. mars 2006, 07:48, skrev Klaus Ade Johnstad: > Feel free to answer in German :-) > > I'm changing a school that previously used a 3 year old Debian server > running Samba 2.x over to Skolelinux, using Samba 3.0.14, and I have > 1 problem, and 3 questions: > My problems is that the filenames do not have the German umlauts > (öäü) or the Norwegian special characthers (øæå). I have about 8000 > such files, the teachers say that they have square signs, underscores > and other "strange" stuff instead of umlauts and specially Norwegian > characters. > > My questions: > 1. What should I use in smb.conf for the values > unix charset = > DOS charset = > > 2. What should actually the LOCALES be? > > 3. I've found a program that supposedly will help me, > http://j3e.de/linux/convmv/ > I've tried different combinations of > convmv -f cp850 -t iso8859-1 > convmv -f cp850 -t utf8 > But even if the umlauts are again visible from linux, they look > strange on windows. Anyone having used this program before? > > > > Oh, another problem is that they are using this system very heavily > 24 hours a day (lots of vpn connections), so I can't just restart > Samba whenever I like to... > > Klaus Thanks to Jürgen and Jan-Benedict for nice long answer, I'm sure the answer is in those email, I've just not managed to figure them out yet :-) I found out that if I use in smb.conf unix charset = cp850 display charset = cp850 Then all the German and Norwegian special characters looks "fine" again I'm not sure if this is "a smart thing", but I've not been able to get this result using the different methods with "iconv -f cp850 -f utf-8" or "convmv -f cp850 -t utf8". I suspect that the "correct" way of dealing with this is by using convvm/iconv, but I haven't managed that yet. Comments are very much welcome. Klaus -- 67E61D18B2C44F8A3DA35C6D849F9F5F 26FA477D
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