CJK Filenames and Linux File System
I'm about to setup a samba filesever using SuSE 8.1 and reiserfs for one of my offices in China. The clients will be mainly Simplified Chinese Windows 2000. Are there any gotchas that I should look out for with respect to filenames in Chinese? Thanks in advance, Jethro Cramp -------------------------------------------------------
On 2003-02-14 at 09:27 +0800 Jethro Cramp sent off:
I'm about to setup a samba filesever using SuSE 8.1 and reiserfs for one of my offices in China. The clients will be mainly Simplified Chinese Windows 2000.
Are there any gotchas that I should look out for with respect to filenames in Chinese?
samba 2.x does not support multibyte charset mappings, so you will not be able to get the correct filenames served by the samba server and have this filenames displayed on your Linux box. Unix filesystems do not care about the charset of filenames at all, Windows filesystems are UTF-16 coded but that has nothing to do with your samba server question by the way. If you don't care about the correctness of filenames on your Linux box but just care about the filenames on your samba shares which is seen by the clients just don't do anything about charsets in your smb.conf and use a filesystem of your choice because the filesystem is not involved in your problem. Björn PS: Samba 3.0 will have multibyte support for charsets and the describeѕ problem will be gone. But don not expect Samba 3.0 to come in the near future, it's still in alpha stage.
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Bjoern Jacke
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Jethro Cramp