Hi,
As Yedidyah suggested i'm currently testing "convmv". I think i'm in big trouble:
SMB.CONF from OLD samba shows:
"character set = ISO8859-5"
Which is RUSSIAN - how it happened i've got no clue.
When running convmv it works perfectly converting names to UTF, but the filenames are shown in RUSSIAN.
Again in OLD samba all filenames were in hebrew.
Is there any way to fix that (i'm talking about several hundreds users:), although majority of them doesn't use Hebrew filenames).
In addition Solaris doesn't understand 'ls -l --show-control-chars'
and all my tests with "od" didn't improve my understanding, actually now i do understand the problem but i don't understand how it worked earlier.
Kind Regards, Greg
Yedidyah Bar-David wrote:
On Sun, Nov 28, 2004 at 04:28:56PM +0200, Greg Pendler wrote:
Hi, Yedidyah.
Thanks for your quick answer!
Can you show us examples? Using e.g. 'ls -l --show-control-chars'?
I can not view correctly hebrew filenames in Solaris, but i don't think it is a problem because i couldn't view them before upgrade, but previous Samba was showing them correctly.
Can you still run the older samba and verify that it works?
Yes i can and i did. It works.
OK.
Please create two files, named AlefBetGimelDalet (4 letters) in Windows, one of them through the old samba, the other through the new one, each in its own new directory. Then do on both ls --show-control-chars | od -tx1 and send the output.
I run: iconv -l|grep HEBREW and tried different options including the one you're suggesting.
OK, it makes sense. Maybe your samba wasn't configured for Hebrew filenames, in which case the conversion was more compicated.
New files created with Hebrew names on windoze clients look great. Thats
How do they look in Unix? If they are utf-8,
How can i verify that?
With the above example, you should get 0000000 d7 90 d7 91 d7 92 d7 93 0a
I would think (and test
and backup well before really trying) about finding out what charset your current files are encoded and renaming all of them. utf-8 is probably better than keeping iso8859-8 or whatever it was.
I'm really looking for some utility that can transfer filenames from one encoding to another
This was discussed several times on linux-il, search the archives. There were both semi-official, published programs, and hacked scripts. One of them was 'convmv'. Either use it or search the archives for this as a start.
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