# 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.