Unable to access NetStorage if user credentials contain a national character

  • 7000447
  • 22-May-2008
  • 26-Apr-2012

Environment

Novell Open Enterprise Server (Linux based)

Situation

Unable to log in NetStorage if the user name or password contains national character(s).
User authentication with the Novell Client is successful.

Resolution

XTier does the login for NetStorage.
It is necessary to set XTIER_CODE_PAGE environment variable to the appropriate code-page value (by default it is set to ANSI) in: /etc/opt/novell/xtier/xsrvd/envvars

Additional Information

For Scandinavian characters the varialble is shown below:
XTIER_CODE_PAGE=ISO-8859-1