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Re: Samba, vfat, Hebrew and Windows 98



If you'll look at the Linux-IL mailing lists, you'll see some lines
which Eli Marmor has added to smb.conf (I think) which will let you save
the files in hebrew filenames. Either look at the archive or ask Eli.

Hetz

Nimrod Zimerman wrote:
> 
> Hello.
> 
> I've recently installed a Samba server in the office here, for use by
> several Windows 98 clients. Due to various constraints, I'm currently forced
> not to put the data files on an ext2 filesystem, which means I have to
> settle with vfat.
> The problem is that vfat doesn't like Hebrew filenames. ext2 handles them
> just fine.
> 
> I'm looking for some workaround, that would let me do one of the two -
> either properly use Hebrew on vfat, or force Windows 98 not to name newly
> created directories - 'New Folder' (in Hebrew). I have an educated crowd
> here, that knows Hebrew filenames are bad - we aren't planning on using them
> for anything. Windows does that for us, without asking.
> I'm hoping the 'New Folder' name is configurable somewhere. I hunted through
> the registery, but found nothing useful.
> 
> Technical details: The Samba daemon 2.0.5a (glibc) is running on
> a Linux 2.2.12.
> 
>                                                    Nimrod
> 
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