| [206] | 1 | Note: All files in this directory are DOS formatted (CRLF line terminator).
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| 2 |
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| 3 | !!! VIRUS WARNING !!! I do not know if VALIDCHR.COM is virus free !!!
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| 4 | I think that my system is virus free here because I do not run any games
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| 5 | or other copied software. I only run Shareware/Freeware etc. from CD-ROMs
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| 6 | or from registered disks, however I do not use viral scanners because
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| 7 | I have not registered any (I consider `having no sex' is better than
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| 8 | `testing for AIDS on a regular basis', if you know what I mean).
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| 9 |
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| 10 | This is VALIDCHR, a little DOS program I wrote to create
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| 11 | an apropriate `valid chars =' config parameter.
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| 12 | It is freeware and is thought to be distributed freely with Samba.
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| 13 |
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| 14 | WARNING:
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| 15 | Your SMB driver may use another character map as the one VALIDCHR
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| 16 | sees. The only way you can tell this is that some file names fail.
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| 17 | Under Win95 everything is fine, though.
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| 18 |
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| 19 | Usage:
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| 20 | c:
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| 21 | mkdir junk_dir
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| 22 | cd junk_dir
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| 23 | a:validchr > a:output.log
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| 24 | cd ..
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| 25 | rmdir junk_dir
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| 26 |
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| 27 | Siedeffects:
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| 28 | Files named *.TST may be deleted.
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| 29 |
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| 30 | Verification:
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| 31 | For diagnostic purpose you can run VALIDCHR on a Samba mounted drive.
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| 32 | Then you can use unix diff to compare the output of the network and
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| 33 | the hard drive. These two outputs usually differ! However there
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| 34 | should be few differences. I get following on Win95 (c: visa e:)
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| 35 | 104c104
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| 36 | < 152: length 0
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| 37 | ---
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| 38 | > 152: 95
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| 39 | (diff line for `valid chars =' deleted because it's uninteresting)
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| 40 | You can see, `y diaresis' can be mapped on the network drive while
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| 41 | it cannot be mapped on the hard drive. Everything else is identical.
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| 42 | However this gives a hint that one can improve the mapping.
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| 43 |
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| 44 | Bugs:
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| 45 | Yes, probably some.
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| 46 |
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| 47 |
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| 48 | VALIDCHR must be run on the system which character mapping should be probed.
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| 49 | It must be run on the hard drive for this. VALIDCHR ALTERS THE CURRENT
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| 50 | DIRECTORY AND REMOVES SOME FILES, SO ALWAYS RUN IT IN A junk DIRECTORY !!!
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| 51 | You should redirect the output of VALIDCHR. At the end of the output is a
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| 52 | line like
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| 53 | valid chars = x:y y:x x:x ... a:b c ...
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| 54 | which is suitable for your smb.conf file. (you should remove the DOS CR
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| 55 | character, because DOS uses CRLF while Unix uses LF only.)
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| 56 |
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| 57 | Note that some mappings at the beginning of the `valid chars =' line like
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| 58 | A:B B:A B:B
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| 59 | might look a little bit strange to you, however sometimes character A
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| 60 | has to be mapped to character B independently of a default mapping
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| 61 | to uppercase or lowercase while character B must not be touched. I found
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| 62 | this out the hard way ... Consider it a crude workaround, because Samba
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| 63 | lacks the possibility to map characters in one direction only!
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| 64 |
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| 65 | VALIDCHR usually issues one warning for character 32.
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| 66 | You may ignore these and any other warnings.
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| 67 |
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| 68 | VALIDCHR does not test for character NUL (this is the directory end marker).
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| 69 |
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| 70 | validchr.c is the source code to validchr.com
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| 71 | You may do anything with the source code (copy, change, sell, burn)
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| 72 | validchr.com is a Borland C compiled binary.
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| 73 | Beware, it may contain a virus (if my system contains one).
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| 74 | nwdos70.out is the output of an VALIDCHR-run under Novell DOS 7.0
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| 75 | while no codepage (no display.sys) was active.
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| 76 | msdos70.out is the output of an VALIDCHR-run under MS-DOS 7.0 (Win95 DOS)
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| 77 | while codepage 850 was active.
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| 78 |
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| 79 | I have no other MS-DOS systems at home currently.
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| 80 | (I have access to MS-DOS 3.0, 3.2, 3.3, 5.0 and 6.22, however I have no time
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| 81 | to run VALIDCHR there)
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| 82 |
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| 83 | Some words to the output
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| 84 | (for people not fammiliar with programming language C):
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| 85 |
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| 86 | probed_char: [text] mapped_char
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| 87 |
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| 88 | probed_char is the character probed to be written to disk
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| 89 | text may be empty or contain:
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| 90 | open File could not be opened.
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| 91 | close File could not be closed (should not happen)
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| 92 | length File name was shortened (usually occurs on SPC)
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| 93 | unlink File cannot be unlinked (usually when open fails)
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| 94 | mapped_char is the character which is used by MS-DOS in the directory
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| 95 | This is usually the uppercase character.
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| 96 | The mapped character is 0 if something failed (you may say
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| 97 | that the character is not supported)
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| 98 |
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| 99 | The last line in the output is documented in the smb.conf manual page ;)
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| 100 |
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| 101 | tino@augsburg.net
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