Re: [Samba] ldap-query operating system attribute
Hello, On Thursday, March 07, 2013 09:47:21 AM Michael Wood wrote: Hi On 6 March 2013 19:09, Ali Bendriss ali.bendr...@gmail.com wrote: On Wednesday, March 06, 2013 06:50:46 PM Michael Wood wrote: Hi On 6 March 2013 16:43, Ali Bendriss ali.bendr...@gmail.com wrote: Hello, I'm running samba 4.0.3. when I query the operatingsystem attribute using ldapsearch ... -P 3 (objectCategory=computer) The operatingsystem value returned for Windows 7 Professionnel N is operatingSystem:: V2luZG93c8KgNyBQcm9mZXNzaW9ubmVsIE4= which translate to Windows 7 Professionnel N But when I look at it using dsa.msc I can read Windows 7 Professionnel N Are you worried about the � That's actually a non-breaking space character (like nbsp; in HTML). my mistake in fact it return Windows + something not convertible to utf8. It is encoded as UTF-8. It should not be converted to UTF-8. That base64 encoded string decodes to: $ python -c 'print repr(V2luZG93c8KgNyBQcm9mZXNzaW9ubmVsIE4=.decode(base64))' 'Windows\xc2\xa07 Professionnel N' which Python is quite happy to interpret as UTF-8: $ python -c 'print repr(V2luZG93c8KgNyBQcm9mZXNzaW9ubmVsIE4=.decode(base64).decode(utf-8) )' u'Windows\xa07 Professionnel N' If you look here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-breaking_space#Encodings you will see that the UTF-8 encoding of a non-breaking space is the two bytes 0xC2 and 0xA0 which is exactly what your data contains. And the Unicode code point is U+00A0, which Python prints as u'\xa0'. So it seems something else is going on between getting the information from Samba and sending it to Postgres. Thank you for your valuable input. You are perfectly correct the culprit was my to_lower_case routine. My I ask you some info about the date format used in samba. In example the attribute whenCreated, whenChanged whenCreated: 20120402125316.0Z whenChanged: 20130208010036.0Z I can see : %Y%m%d maybe after it is %H%M%S But what is .0Z ? I'm trying to get the computers info in a postgresql database and get in postgresql log file ERROR: invalid byte sequence for encoding UTF8: 0xe2 0xa0 0x37 For other system, it's fine, I've got Windows XP Professional, Mac OS X, Windows 7 Professionnel I've got only the problem for the 'N' version. Could someone let me know if he can see or not the same problem. thanks -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/options/samba
Re: [Samba] ldap-query operating system attribute
Hi On 7 March 2013 11:40, Ali Bendriss ali.bendr...@gmail.com wrote: Hello, On Thursday, March 07, 2013 09:47:21 AM Michael Wood wrote: Hi On 6 March 2013 19:09, Ali Bendriss ali.bendr...@gmail.com wrote: On Wednesday, March 06, 2013 06:50:46 PM Michael Wood wrote: Hi On 6 March 2013 16:43, Ali Bendriss ali.bendr...@gmail.com wrote: Hello, I'm running samba 4.0.3. when I query the operatingsystem attribute using ldapsearch ... -P 3 (objectCategory=computer) The operatingsystem value returned for Windows 7 Professionnel N is operatingSystem:: V2luZG93c8KgNyBQcm9mZXNzaW9ubmVsIE4= which translate to Windows 7 Professionnel N But when I look at it using dsa.msc I can read Windows 7 Professionnel N Are you worried about the � That's actually a non-breaking space character (like nbsp; in HTML). my mistake in fact it return Windows + something not convertible to utf8. It is encoded as UTF-8. It should not be converted to UTF-8. That base64 encoded string decodes to: $ python -c 'print repr(V2luZG93c8KgNyBQcm9mZXNzaW9ubmVsIE4=.decode(base64))' 'Windows\xc2\xa07 Professionnel N' which Python is quite happy to interpret as UTF-8: $ python -c 'print repr(V2luZG93c8KgNyBQcm9mZXNzaW9ubmVsIE4=.decode(base64).decode(utf-8) )' u'Windows\xa07 Professionnel N' If you look here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-breaking_space#Encodings you will see that the UTF-8 encoding of a non-breaking space is the two bytes 0xC2 and 0xA0 which is exactly what your data contains. And the Unicode code point is U+00A0, which Python prints as u'\xa0'. So it seems something else is going on between getting the information from Samba and sending it to Postgres. Thank you for your valuable input. You are perfectly correct the culprit was my to_lower_case routine. My I ask you some info about the date format used in samba. In example the attribute whenCreated, whenChanged whenCreated: 20120402125316.0Z whenChanged: 20130208010036.0Z I can see : %Y%m%d maybe after it is %H%M%S But what is .0Z ? Sorry, I don't know for sure, but I would guess that the .0 is milliseconds and the Z is probably UTC. http://www.timeanddate.com/library/abbreviations/timezones/military/z.html -- Michael Wood esiot...@gmail.com -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/options/samba
[Samba] ldap-query operating system attribute
Hello, I'm running samba 4.0.3. when I query the operatingsystem attribute using ldapsearch ... -P 3 (objectCategory=computer) The operatingsystem value returned for Windows 7 Professionnel N is operatingSystem:: V2luZG93c8KgNyBQcm9mZXNzaW9ubmVsIE4= which translate to Windows 7 Professionnel N But when I look at it using dsa.msc I can read Windows 7 Professionnel N For other system, it's fine, I've got Windows XP Professional, Mac OS X, Windows 7 Professionnel I've got only the problem for the 'N' version. Could someone let me know if he can see or not the same problem. thanks -- Ali -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/options/samba
Re: [Samba] ldap-query operating system attribute
Hi On 6 March 2013 16:43, Ali Bendriss ali.bendr...@gmail.com wrote: Hello, I'm running samba 4.0.3. when I query the operatingsystem attribute using ldapsearch ... -P 3 (objectCategory=computer) The operatingsystem value returned for Windows 7 Professionnel N is operatingSystem:: V2luZG93c8KgNyBQcm9mZXNzaW9ubmVsIE4= which translate to Windows 7 Professionnel N But when I look at it using dsa.msc I can read Windows 7 Professionnel N Are you worried about the � That's actually a non-breaking space character (like nbsp; in HTML). For other system, it's fine, I've got Windows XP Professional, Mac OS X, Windows 7 Professionnel I've got only the problem for the 'N' version. Could someone let me know if he can see or not the same problem. thanks -- Michael Wood esiot...@gmail.com -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/options/samba
Re: [Samba] ldap-query operating system attribute
On Wednesday, March 06, 2013 06:50:46 PM Michael Wood wrote: Hi On 6 March 2013 16:43, Ali Bendriss ali.bendr...@gmail.com wrote: Hello, I'm running samba 4.0.3. when I query the operatingsystem attribute using ldapsearch ... -P 3 (objectCategory=computer) The operatingsystem value returned for Windows 7 Professionnel N is operatingSystem:: V2luZG93c8KgNyBQcm9mZXNzaW9ubmVsIE4= which translate to Windows 7 Professionnel N But when I look at it using dsa.msc I can read Windows 7 Professionnel N Are you worried about the � That's actually a non-breaking space character (like nbsp; in HTML). my mistake in fact it return Windows + something not convertible to utf8. I'm trying to get the computers info in a postgresql database and get in postgresql log file ERROR: invalid byte sequence for encoding UTF8: 0xe2 0xa0 0x37 For other system, it's fine, I've got Windows XP Professional, Mac OS X, Windows 7 Professionnel I've got only the problem for the 'N' version. Could someone let me know if he can see or not the same problem. thanks -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/options/samba
Re: [Samba] ldap-query operating system attribute
Hi On 6 March 2013 19:09, Ali Bendriss ali.bendr...@gmail.com wrote: On Wednesday, March 06, 2013 06:50:46 PM Michael Wood wrote: Hi On 6 March 2013 16:43, Ali Bendriss ali.bendr...@gmail.com wrote: Hello, I'm running samba 4.0.3. when I query the operatingsystem attribute using ldapsearch ... -P 3 (objectCategory=computer) The operatingsystem value returned for Windows 7 Professionnel N is operatingSystem:: V2luZG93c8KgNyBQcm9mZXNzaW9ubmVsIE4= which translate to Windows 7 Professionnel N But when I look at it using dsa.msc I can read Windows 7 Professionnel N Are you worried about the � That's actually a non-breaking space character (like nbsp; in HTML). my mistake in fact it return Windows + something not convertible to utf8. It is encoded as UTF-8. It should not be converted to UTF-8. That base64 encoded string decodes to: $ python -c 'print repr(V2luZG93c8KgNyBQcm9mZXNzaW9ubmVsIE4=.decode(base64))' 'Windows\xc2\xa07 Professionnel N' which Python is quite happy to interpret as UTF-8: $ python -c 'print repr(V2luZG93c8KgNyBQcm9mZXNzaW9ubmVsIE4=.decode(base64).decode(utf-8))' u'Windows\xa07 Professionnel N' If you look here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-breaking_space#Encodings you will see that the UTF-8 encoding of a non-breaking space is the two bytes 0xC2 and 0xA0 which is exactly what your data contains. And the Unicode code point is U+00A0, which Python prints as u'\xa0'. So it seems something else is going on between getting the information from Samba and sending it to Postgres. I'm trying to get the computers info in a postgresql database and get in postgresql log file ERROR: invalid byte sequence for encoding UTF8: 0xe2 0xa0 0x37 For other system, it's fine, I've got Windows XP Professional, Mac OS X, Windows 7 Professionnel I've got only the problem for the 'N' version. Could someone let me know if he can see or not the same problem. thanks -- Michael Wood esiot...@gmail.com -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/options/samba
