vfs_catia: new version of the manual page for samba-3.6.x

well, i was not aware of the change
./docs-xml/manpages-3/
./docs-xml/manpages/
in samba-4.0.x

Signed-off-by: Guenter Kukkukk <kukks@samba.org>
The last 4 patches address bug #9701 - vfs_catia is not working anymore (due to
a former regression).
(cherry picked from commit 17113c33a77a257560f33dbb35286ae20250a8f5)

diff --git a/docs-xml/manpages-3/vfs_catia.8.xml b/docs-xml/manpages-3/vfs_catia.8.xml
index f1368a02c62b8f7cf3b8527af72f52691a84a15e..a786ecd6eb9f477a90ab34e708330ecf021c3407 100644 (file)
--- a/docs-xml/manpages-3/vfs_catia.8.xml
+++ b/docs-xml/manpages-3/vfs_catia.8.xml
@@ -31,18 +31,31 @@
 
        <para>The Catia CAD package commonly creates filenames that
        use characters that are illegal in CIFS filenames. The
-       <command>vfs_catia</command> VFS module implements a fixed character
+       <command>vfs_catia</command> VFS module implements a character
        mapping so that these files can be shared with CIFS clients.
        </para>
 
        <para>This module is stackable.</para>
 
+       <para>Up to samba version 3.4.x a fixed character mapping was used.
+       The invalid windows characters  \ / : * ? " &lt; &gt; | and the blank
+       character were mapped in a hardcoded way.
+       </para>
+
+       <para>Starting with samba-3.5.0 a more flexible mapping was introduced.
+       The new parameter "catia:mappings" now specifies the mapping on a char by char
+       basis using the notation: unix hex char 0x.. : windows hex char 0x..
+       Multiple character mappings are separated by a comma.
+       </para>
+
+
 </refsect1>
 
 
 <refsect1>
        <title>EXAMPLES</title>
 
+       <para>Samba versions up to 3.4.x:</para>
        <para>Map Catia filenames on the [CAD] share:</para>
 
 <programlisting>
@@ -51,12 +64,60 @@
        <smbconfoption name="vfs objects">catia</smbconfoption>
 </programlisting>
 
+       <para>Samba versions 3.5.0 and later:</para>
+       <para>Map Catia filenames on the [CAD] share:</para>
+
+<programlisting>
+        <smbconfsection name="[CAD]"/>
+       <smbconfoption name="path">/data/cad</smbconfoption>
+       <smbconfoption name="vfs objects">catia</smbconfoption>
+       <smbconfoption name="catia:mappings">0x22:0xa8</smbconfoption>
+</programlisting>
+
+        <para>To get the full formerly fixed mappings:</para>
+<programlisting>
+        <smbconfsection name="[CAD]"/>
+       <smbconfoption name="path">/data/cad</smbconfoption>
+       <smbconfoption name="vfs objects">catia</smbconfoption>
+       <smbconfoption name="catia:mappings">0x22:0xa8,0x2a:0xa4,0x2f:0xf8,0x3a:0xf7,0x3c:0xab,0x3e:0xbb,0x3f:0xbf,0x5c:0xff,0x7c:0xa6,0x20:0xb1</smbconfoption>
+</programlisting>
+
+        <para>Unix filename to be translated (Note that the path delimiter "/" is not used here):
+       </para>
+       <para>a\a:a*a?a"a&lt;a&gt;a|a a</para>
+
+       <para>Resulting windows filename:</para>
+
+       <para>a&#x00ff;a&#x00f7;a&#x00a4;a&#x00bf;a&#x00a8;a&#x00ab;a&#x00bb;a&#x00a6;a&#x00b1;a
+       </para>
+
+        <para>Note that the character mapping must work in BOTH directions
+       (unix -&gt; windows and windows -&gt; unix) to get unique and existing file names!
+       </para>
+
+       <para>A NOT working example:</para>
+
+<programlisting>
+        <smbconfsection name="[CAD]"/>
+       <smbconfoption name="path">/data/cad</smbconfoption>
+       <smbconfoption name="vfs objects">catia</smbconfoption>
+       <smbconfoption name="catia:mappings">0x3a:0x5f</smbconfoption>
+</programlisting>
+
+         <para>Here the colon ":" is mapped to the underscore "_".</para>
+        <para>Assuming a unix filename "a:should_work", which is well translated
+        to windows as "a_should_work".</para>
+        <para>BUT the reverse mapping from windows "a_should_work" to unix
+        will result in "a:should:work" - something like "file not found"
+        will be returned.
+        </para>
+
 </refsect1>
 
 <refsect1>
        <title>VERSION</title>
 
-       <para>This man page is correct for version 3.0.25 of the Samba suite.
+       <para>This man page is correct for all versions up to 4.0.3 of the Samba suite.
        </para>
 </refsect1>
 
@@ -67,6 +128,7 @@
        were created by Andrew Tridgell. Samba is now developed
        by the Samba Team as an Open Source project similar
        to the way the Linux kernel is developed.</para>
+       <para>New version written by Guenter Kukkukk kukks@samba.org</para>
 
 </refsect1>