Windows workgroups unusable when in Korean
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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samba (Ubuntu) |
Invalid
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Undecided
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
Binary package hint: gnome-cups-manager
I recently moved to Korea and am attempting to print to a network printer. Gnome-cups-manager reports only a few of the computers on the network. Some of the workgroup names and many of the computer names are in Korean. The non-ASCII names are not reported. This represents no problem to the Windows computers, who can communicate among the Korean workgroups well, but keeps me from using any network access for them. I suspect this problem would occur in other non-ASCII environments like Thai or Chinese.
Originally using Edgy in Xubuntu, I installed ubuntu-desktop (and Gnome) to see if the problem lay with XFCE. Further exploration with findsmb and smbclient on the command line showed similar problems, so I suspect the issue goes quite deep into a library I wouldn't know about.
Non-ASCII workgroups and hostnames are common in Windows environments in Asia. Ubuntu should be able to handle them.
ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Wed Mar 7 16:30:53 2007
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 7.04
Uname: Linux danielbo 2.6.20-9-generic #2 SMP Mon Feb 26 03:01:44 UTC 2007 i686 GNU/Linux
As this problem also shows up when using the command line tools of Samba, it seems to be a problem of Samba. Reassigning the bug to Samba.