[Pkg-samba-maint] Bug#528746: smbfs: Because deprecated codepage options accented characters in filenames are not supported on Windows 95/98/ME

[Steve Langasek]

tags 528746 upstream
thanks

On Fri, May 15, 2009 at 10:47:11AM +0300, Virgo P?a wrote:
> Because codepage option was deprecated, file names, that contain accented characters are not
> shown correctly on Windows 95/98/ME shares, when they are mounted.

It is unlikely that this will ever receive attention from the developers of
the CIFS driver; fixing this involves adding a significant amount of new,
security-sensitive string handling code to the kernel, to support a use case
that's negligible, and less relevant as time passes.  The OSes you reference
are themselves unsupported and incapable of negotiating passwords securely
over a network.  I recommend that you migrate your servers to a reasonably
modern file sharing platform.

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