The global
character
set option can be used to convert filenames offered through a DOS code page (see the previous section,
Section 8.3.1, client code page") to equivalents that can be represented by Unix character sets other than those in the United States. For example, if you want to convert the Western European MS-DOS character set on the client to a Western European Unix character set on the server, you can use the following in your configuration file:
[global]
client code page = 850
character set = ISO8859-1
Note that you must include a
client
code
page option to specify the character set from which you are converting. The valid character sets (and their matching code pages) that Samba 2.0 accepts are listed in
Table 8.5:
