Hello, i finally solved the issue when upgrading a samba 2.x box to 3.0 with foreign language letters, especially with german umlauts.
problem was that a not specially configured samba2.x box would use cp437 as default encoding, while samba3 uses utf-8. i wrote a small python script which walks through a directory and does filename conversion from cp437 to utf-8. if you change parameters you could convert from any encoding known to python to any other encoding (if it's possible with unicode). it's available at http://tinyurl.com/f8ol WARNING: use at your own risk, and only use it once on a given file !!! because the program can't determine the current encoding it will always convert a filename from cp437 to utf-8, even if it was already in utf-8 encoding, which then results in a unaccessible file again. thx for the great work on samba Holger Brueckner net-labs Systemhaus GmbH -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba