Problem Assigning file permissions on windows client

Question

I have created some Users and Groups in the OD. I have several Windows PC's including Server 2003 installations. SMB is running and configured as "primary domain controller".
When I browse the OD from the Windows client to assign file permissions I ONLY see the USERS, not the Groups. I have Groups and Users checked in the "Locations" sub dialog.
ie. Right Click on folder to share, choose Sharing and Security, choose Permissions, choose Add, choose Advanced, choose Find. Same thing in the Security Tab. Same thing in the User manager.
This also affects the logons. I don't want to have to add each user every time I want to share or give logon permissions on the Windows client. Adding a Group is much easier.
Any suggestions?

Answer 1

N'<national symbols>', being part of an SQL statement, will be converted to the database character set (WE8ISO8859P1) before being parsed. Only if the client and the database are both 10.2 or higher, the client can encode the literal appropriately so that it survives this conversion.
In earlier versions, you can do the encoding yourself. Instead of the N'<national symbols>' literal use the UNISTR function: UNISTR('\xxxx\yyyy\zzzz'), where U+xxxx, U+yyyy, U+zzzz are Unicode code points of your national characters.
-- Sergiusz