On Fri, 2004-03-26 at 17:56, Pirkka Luukkonen wrote: > >> Hi! > >> > >> This teamware mailclient (teamware.com) that we use at the office has > >> problems adding files as attachments from our Samba 3.0.2a share. The > >> attachment file browser sees the files but fails to add them as > >> attachments (with an error message: "valid.stf - file not found" > >> regardless of the file name in question). I tracked this thing down to > >> scandinavian letters (if your mail client supports it you should see > >> these ������) in directory names. > >> > >> example: > >> g:\some-directory\some-file.png Works OK > >> g:\scandi���\some-file.png Doesn't work. > >> > >> Anywhere else in Windows XP samba directories work just fine with > >> scandinavian letters. This is the only program that behaves like this > >> and I haven't received any help from vendor or manufacturer and they are > >> as amazed as I am. > >> > >> Server is Samba 3.0.2a with winbind and the charsets are: > >> dos charset = CP850 > >> unix charset = UTF-8 > >> > >> Clients are Windows XP/2k/NT and Teamware Office 5.3/6.0. > > > > In the same way that Samba has had to deal with the move to unicode, so > > have many windows applications. In windows, the transition is to a new > > collection of 'W' functions, for 'wide' character set. This is a lot of > > work, and many applications instead convert back and forth to the old > > ASCII or OEM code page. If your user's profile/localle is incorrect, > > then this might be part of the issue. The correct solution may be for > > your application to be at least partially recoded using these > > functions... > > > > How well does this work against a win2k server? If it doesn't fail, > > then we have something more fishy going on... > > I tested unix charsets ascii, iso8859-1 and iso8859-15 with Samba and it did > no use. I also tried win2k and nt server shares and they worked like a > charm. It seems clear, that the problem I have is somewhere between Teamware > Office and Samba server. Some exception that it cannot handle, perhaps.
Can you make sure this is filed as a bug? If we differ in behaviour from what Win2k does, then it's a bug... If you can get any more detail from the application vendor, then that would be very useful too... Andrew Bartlett -- Andrew Bartlett [EMAIL PROTECTED] Manager, Authentication Subsystems, Samba Team [EMAIL PROTECTED] Student Network Administrator, Hawker College [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://samba.org http://build.samba.org http://hawkerc.net
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