Help on Samba share....

[thinker8]

I have Samba 3.0.26 running on AIX5.3, sharing out a couple of UNIX filesystems to the PC world. When the user drops a text file to the share, all files have the '^M' at the end of each line... (I believe it's a carriage return)

I think Samba is transferring the file thru ftp binary mode, is there any way to tell Samba to use ascii mode...so that I don't have '^M' on each line...???

Thx

 

[TonyGroves]

No. Samba won't change files; it faithfully passes on what it's given, using the SMB/CIFS protocol. The best solution is to educate your users, but maybe they actually need Windows-style line endings for certain Windows software? As a last resort, for those files that need Unix-style line endings, you could either run a cron job to convert them, or alter the software that processes them to accept either format.

 

[thinker8]

Tony, they actually put a csv file (coming from MS Excel) to the Samba share, and the file has a "^M" at the end of each line...

I have a script to take out the "^M" and maybe put into the cron to check every minute...

 

[PHV]

FYI a Samba share holds WINDOWS files ...

Hope This Helps, PH.
FAQ219-2884
FAQ181-2886

 

[danomac]

thinker8:

It is possible that samba is not correctly converting the filenames. There are two options in smb.conf that pertain to this:

dos charset
unix charset

If they aren't set correctly samba won't translate the text properly.

If you do a 'man smb.conf' it will give you details on how to set these properly.