I added some text in a samba share file through windows computer.

FILE:-
my name is yoyo




dsf




add data from widows

but when i try to look at file that ,through linux computer it show me data like this a carrot symbol and capital M in between the data.

my name is yoyo
^M
^M
^M
^M
dsf
^M
^M
^M
^M
add data from widows


why the format of data has been changed , why this symbol and M comes within the lines


any idea ??

I often read/write/create text files thru Samba from a windows pc and have no problems at all. You didn't mention what program you are using for your text editor, but you should make sure it saves as a text file format and not the often default MS Word format.

^M is the result of the different way Windoze and Unix represent CR-LF in an ascii file. There is a utility named dos2unix with elliminates this character.

in windows i am using notepad ,
and in linux i am using vi editor.

could u plz tell me form where can i get and how can use it remove the problem.

Since I use it on Solaris I don't know where you can find it, perhaps your distro has it. Anyway searching at google gave me this site: http://www.iconv.com/dos2unix.htm which does an online transformation of your files

bathory
thanks it works well,

but every time when ever changes are made to file i have to use this utility to convert it, this will take to much time.


any other idea which directly converts it while the modification where made through either window or linux computer.

Try other editors in Linux, like pico or joe. Another solution would be to edit the file in Windoze and copy it to the Linux share.

thanks "kwrite" works well for this issue for accessing it through linux,

but after saving some more lines from linux computer using kwrite, and then looking at windows computer then file comes in this format with some character in between the lines that i am not able to paste here. (some square black boxes)


my name is yoyo dsf add data from widows another data added from windows kljlkjlk;jl;kjl;jlklkjlkjkljkl; yoyo again yoyo


whereas original file format is this

my name is yoyo



dsf





add data from widows

kljlkjlk;jl;kjl;jlklkjlkjkljkl;

yoyo


again yoyo

Try using vi on both systems:
http://www.winvi.de/en/

i will try that,

don't u people face this problem.

And when i try to open linux share file in MS office word in windows computer , the format is correct but it doesn't allow me to save any changes whereas i can save changes through notepad.

why ms office word is not allowing me to save the changes.

The file permissions are probably set wrong.

Do a long directory listing on the file in question:

ls -lh <filename>

And let me know all the info that was provided.

#ls -lh testsamba

total 4.0K
-rwxrwxrwx 1 root root 158 Sep 10 18:13 testsamba*


when i try to save changes in testsamba file through word it gives me message box

"testsamba may contain features that are not compatible with Plain Text format. Do you want to save the document in this format ?"


i clicked yes

and then another message,

"Word cannot save or create this file. Make sure that the disk you want to save the file on is not full, write-protected,or damaged"
(\\MANDRAKE\sharemandrake\testsamba)

when i clicked ok it gives me save as dialog box when i click save button it gives me same as above

"Word cannot save or create this file. Make sure that the disk you want to save the file on is not full, write-protected,or damaged"
(\\MANDRAKE\sharemandrake\testsamba)

Well since I did not notice that notepad will save it the permissions obviously are not the trouble.

Is there any error message from MS Word?

plz read the changes to above message.

thanks DertyolBA$HTARD,


i had tried winvi that is working fine
and
now i had solved the problem for notepad and saving file through ms word also .

thanks a lot.....