On Microsoft Windows XP Swedish with Service Pack 1 the process EXPLORER.EXE crashes when trying to access a folder which contains subfolders with the Swedish chracters å, ä and ö or if a folder contains any non alphanumeric- characters (like space). It only crashes with the following settings in smb.conf: unicode = no unix charset = ASCII Also, folders with non alphanumeric characters appear as ~ instead of their real name If I change to unicode = yes, it works after I restart the smbd. The samba server is running version 3.0.1pre3 installed on RedHat 9 from the RPM package.
Is there a reason why you need unicode = no ? Just trying to understand the impact of this bug.
I discovered this bug while trying to get Swedish characters to work, and the correct setting for this is: unicode = yes dos charset = ISO8859-1 unix charset = ISO8859-1 so I can't see any reason for using unicode = no and unix charset = ASCII (don't know if the same error appears with other charsets). Since I don't really understand what the unicode parameter does (haven't read about it) I can't tell when or how to use it.
> I discovered this bug while trying to get Swedish characters to work, and the > correct setting for this is: > > unicode = yes > dos charset = ISO8859-1 > unix charset = ISO8859-1 Actually this is not correct. The correct setting for Swedish would be : unix charset = ISO8859-1 dos charset = CP850
I'm closing this. There is no reason to turn off unicode to a Windows XP client - plus this is a Microsoft client bug, not a Samba one. Jeremy.