Handling common errors with the Samba file server

convert ISO to utf8

• Stop the samba service:

  systemctl stop smb
  

• Install the module convmv:

  # RedHat8 and derived distributions
  yum install convmv
  # Debian
  apt-get install convmv
  

• In a command prompt, run the conversion command on the shared directory. Here in our example, the root directory is named data:

  convmv --notest -f iso-8859-15 -t utf8 -r /data
  

• Then in /etc/smb.conf, delete or comment the line dos charset:

• Finally, restart Samba:

  systemctl restart smb
  systemctl restart winbind
  systemctl restart nmb #<== Necessary if NetBIOS is enabled.