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NAME
make_smbcodepage - construct a codepage file for Samba
SYNOPSIS
make_smbcodepage c|d codepage inputfile outputfile
DESCRIPTION
This tool is part of the Samba suite.
make_smbcodepage compiles or de-compiles codepage files for
use with the internationalization features of Samba 2.2
OPTIONS
c|d This tells make_smbcodepage if it is compiling (c) a
text format code page file to binary, or (d) de-
compiling a binary codepage file to text.
codepage
This is the codepage we are processing (a number, e.g.
850).
inputfile
This is the input file to process. In the c case this
will be a text codepage definition file such as the
ones found in the Samba source/codepages directory. In
the d case this will be the binary format codepage
definition file normally found in the lib/codepages
directory in the Samba install directory path.
outputfile
This is the output file to produce.
SAMBA CODEPAGE FILES
A text Samba codepage definition file is a description that
tells Samba how to map from upper to lower case for
characters greater than ascii 127 in the specified DOS code
page. Note that for certain DOS codepages (437 for example)
mapping from lower to upper case may be non-symmetrical. For
example, in code page 437 lower case a acute maps to a plain
upper case A when going from lower to upper case, but plain
upper case A maps to plain lower case a when lower casing a
character.
A binary Samba codepage definition file is a binary
representation of the same information, including a value
that specifies what codepage this file is describing.
As Samba does not yet use UNICODE (current for Samba version
2.2) you must specify the client code page that your DOS and
Windows clients are using if you wish to have case
insensitivity done correctly for your particular language.
The default codepage Samba uses is 850 (Western European).
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Text codepage definition sample files are provided in the
Samba distribution for codepages 437 (USA), 737 (Greek), 850
(Western European) 852 (MS-DOS Latin 2), 861 (Icelandic),
866 (Cyrillic), 932 (Kanji SJIS), 936 (Simplified Chinese),
949 (Hangul) and 950 (Traditional Chinese). Users are
encouraged to write text codepage definition files for their
own code pages and donate them to samba@samba.org. All
codepage files in the Samba source/codepages directory are
compiled and installed when a 'make install' command is
issued there.
The client codepage used by the smbd server is configured
using the client code page parameter in the smb.conf file.
FILES
codepage_def.<codepage>
These are the input (text) codepage files provided in the
Samba source/codepages directory.
A text codepage definition file consists of multiple lines
containing four fields. These fields are:
o lower: which is the (hex) lower case character mapped on
this line.
o upper: which is the (hex) upper case character that the
lower case character will map to.
o map upper to lower which is a boolean value (put either
True or False here) which tells Samba if it is to map the
given upper case character to the given lower case
character when lower casing a filename.
o map lower to upper which is a boolean value (put either
True or False here) which tells Samba if it is to map the
given lower case character to the given upper case
character when upper casing a filename.
codepage.<codepage> - These are the output (binary) codepage
files produced and placed in the Samba destination
lib/codepage directory.
INSTALLATION
The location of the server and its support files is a matter
for individual system administrators. The following are thus
suggestions only.
It is recommended that the make_smbcodepage program be
installed under the /usr/local/samba hierarchy, in a
directory readable by all, writeable only by root. The
program itself should be executable by all. The program
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should NOT be setuid or setgid!
VERSION
This man page is correct for version 2.2 of the Samba suite.
SEE ALSO
smbd(8)smb.conf(5)
AUTHOR
The original Samba software and related utilities were
created by Andrew Tridgell. Samba is now developed by the
Samba Team as an Open Source project similar to the way the
Linux kernel is developed.
The original Samba man pages were written by Karl Auer. The
man page sources were converted to YODL format (another
excellent piece of Open Source software, available at
ftp://ftp.icce.rug.nl/pub/unix/
<URL:ftp://ftp.icce.rug.nl/pub/unix/>) and updated for the
Samba 2.0 release by Jeremy Allison. The conversion to
DocBook for Samba 2.2 was done by Gerald Carter
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