Hi,
We have been using samba as user space and we are going to migrate to afs, we have setup our machines to be able to view our afs cell but we have the following problem:
From windows when we create a file with greek filename it is encoded in unicode (utf8). This filename is unreadable from the shell of the samba server because we use iso8859-7 as charset. When we create a file with greek filename from the shell of our samba server it is encoded by iso8859-7 and becames unreadable from windows (through samba). This was not a problem till now we want to migrate to afs. if we copy the userfiles from the samba server shell to the afs cell the unicode names are not being copied right. if we do it from windows (through samba) the iso8859-7 names are not being copied right.
Something more. What charset is afs using? we created a file with greek characters and copied it from windows. and then a file with the same filename from samba to the samba server. we logged in the shell of samba server and the 2 files had unreadable filename (which was expected because of the unicode encoded name) but the 2 filenames were different which was not expected.
After that we created 2 files from the samba server shell with the same greek filename. From windows the file through samba was unreadable. the file through afs was unreadble too. Then we changed the registry value about using ANSI charset to store filenames at windows afs client and the filename become readable.
Had anyone any similar problem?
Is there any safe way to copy the files from samba to afs and have readable filenames both for files created from samba server shell (iso885-7) and from windows (samba - unicode)?
Thanks,
Christos Triantafyllidis, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece Department Of Physics
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