HP CIFS Server 2.2i Administrator's Guide version A.01.11.01

Installing and Conﬁguring the HP CIFS Server

Internationalization

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Internationalization

This section describes European and Japanese character support for the

HP CIFS server.

European Character Support

HP CIFS provides European character support for Windows 95, XP and

NT clients. HP CIFS also supports MS-DOS and Windows 3.x clients

using the PC850 code page. To enable European character support for

Windows 95, XP and NT, which includes applications running in

DOS-PROMPT windows under these environments, the HP CIFS server

must be started with the smb.conf variables character set and client code

page set correctly.

For conﬁguration examples, refer to “Step 4, Modifying the Conﬁguration

in this chapter”.

In order to view the ﬁle and directory names and contents correctly from

the UNIX side for various languages, you must set the locale to the

appropriate value. Here are two examples:

export LANG=de_DE.iso88591

-or-

export LANG=de_DE.iso88915@euro

The HP CIFS server must be restarted for the character set or client code

page parameters change to take effect. You cannot administer resource

permissions on shares that contain German umlauts in their names from

the Windows 95 Explorer. Permissions can be administered if the

resource is accessed through the Network Neighborhood. Microsoft has

acknowledged this behavior but has indicated that it is by design and no

ﬁxes will be forthcoming.

Japanese Character Support

HP CIFS supports Japanese character sets as follows:

• HP CIFS supports Japanese only in Shift-JIS encoding. The EUC

codeset is not supported.

• The following clients have been tested with HP CIFS with Japanese: