all turns around the new red hat choice of i18n settings with utf8 i just couldn't have some consistent behaviour between windows/samba/linux
putting LANG=fr_FR (instead of fr_FR.UTF-8) in /etc/sysconfig/i18n solved this problem btw it also solved some others may this help others too A 10:39 25/02/2003, vous avez �crit : >Hello > >I'm using an OOTB RH80 with recent updates, and samba 227, french language > >when I access a samba share from a w98 box eveything works fine but with >accented chars >I just can't get the right filename under linux. > >whatever filename I use on w98, with accented chars, it works from the w98 >side (I get write and read files with their right filenames) > >but when I try to access those files from linux, accented chars are either >transformed in question marks, or worse is some semi-graphic garbage which >resembles to some little square overlapped by some character. It's obvious >that it's a code-page/character-set problem, but I tried a lot of >combinations and none gave me the right filenames > >I changed smb.conf "character set" and "client code page", kernel >CONFIG_NLS_DEFAULT and CONFIG_SMB_NLS_REMOTE, environnement variable LANG, >and so on, but I couldn't make it. > >I know it's possible because I have MDK 80 boxes with samba 227 which work >fine. But in this case I need an RH80, and I think this is the problem !!! > >any help much appreciated > >tia > - * - * - * - * - * - * - >Bien s�r que je suis perfectionniste ! >Mais ne pourrais-je pas l'�tre mieux ? > Thierry ITTY >eMail : [EMAIL PROTECTED] FRANCE >-- >To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the >instructions: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba > > - * - * - * - * - * - * - Bien s�r que je suis perfectionniste ! Mais ne pourrais-je pas l'�tre mieux ? Thierry ITTY eMail : [EMAIL PROTECTED] FRANCE -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba
