smbd conversion error when unix charset CP850 is set

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Issue

  • smbd conversion error when unix charset CP850 is set.
  • File copy from windows to samba share is failing with error.
0x80070246 An illegal character was encountered. For a multi-byte character set this includes a lead byte without a succeeding trail byte. For the Unicode character set this includes the characters 0xFFFF and 0xFFFE

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
  • Samba

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