CIFS/9000 Client Release Note Version A.01.08 Manufacturing Part Number : B8724-90023 AR0902 U.S.A. © Copyright 2002 Hewlett-Packard Company.
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CIFS/9000 Client A.01.08 Announcement 1 CIFS/9000 Client A.01.08 Announcement NOTE For the latest information on the CIFS/9000 Client, refer to the CIFS/9000 product documentation in the Networking and Communications section of the HP documentation website: http://docs.hp.com/ With CIFS/9000, Hewlett-Packard provides a Common Internet File System (CIFS) implementation on HP-UX 11.i. CIFS is the Microsoft protocol for remote file access.
CIFS/9000 Client A.01.08 About This Document About This Document The technical contents of this document are identical to that of the IA1122 (June 2002) release. As of this release, the A.01.08 version of the CIFS Client supports the following versions of HP-UX: 4 • HP-UX 11.0 • HP-UX 11i • HP-UX 11.
CIFS/9000 Client A.01.08 What’s New in Version A.01.08? What’s New in Version A.01.08? This release contains the following enhancements: • Error reporting by PAM-NTLM Error reporting by the PAM-NTLM module has been enhanced such that if PAM-NTLM cannot connect to the password server, an appropriate message is written to syslog.
CIFS/9000 Client A.01.08 Features and Fixes in Recent Releases Features and Fixes in Recent Releases The following features and fixes are listed, beginning with the most recent. • PAM-NTLM can fail to handle Unix password expiration A fix has been implemented for a problem wherein a user with an expired Unix password can login to the host system without being forced to change their expired password. This occurs only if the recommended “stacked” configuration of libpam_ntlm.1 and libpam_unix.
CIFS/9000 Client A.01.08 Features and Fixes in Recent Releases The Hewlett-Packard-authored CIFS Unix Extensions enable standard Unix file system semantics, such as symbolic links, file ownership and permissions to be implemented within the CIFS protocol. The latest revision of the specification, developed in collaboration with the Samba open-source project, provides greater inter operability through a new model for handling file sizes across platforms.
CIFS/9000 Client A.01.08 Features and Fixes in Recent Releases • Duplicate NFS requests filtered by the CIFS/9000 Client This improves reliability of the NFS interface to the CIFS/9000 client. • NFS attribute-caching is now configurable This enhancement allows you to turn on NFS attribute caching, which can improve performance of certain operations, such as creating tar(1) archives of large numbers of files residing on mounted CIFS file systems.
CIFS/9000 Client A.01.08 Features and Fixes in Recent Releases In another case, swinstall, when used to install any software, will stop or exit, forcing the user to set mount_all_filesystems=false. The patch is available at either of these web sites: Americas and Asia-Pacific: http://us-support.external.hp.com/ Europe: http://europe-support.external.hp.com/ Troubleshooting Information for PAM-NTLM • If you are having difficulty accessing the password server configured in smb.
CIFS/9000 Client A.01.08 Features and Fixes in Recent Releases You can either compare the new default file, /etc/opt/cifsclient.cfg.default, to your existing cifsclient.cfg, or make the modifications manually. Leave the cifsclient.cfg.default file unchanged and use it as a reference. NOTE If you have not customized your configuration file in any way, you can simply copy cifsclient.cfg.default over your existing cifsclient.cfg.
CIFS/9000 Client A.01.08 Features and Fixes in Recent Releases CIFS/9000 Client through the use of either Unicode or any of several character-mapping files provided in /etc/opt/cifsclient/unitables.
CIFS/9000 Client A.01.08 Features and Fixes in Recent Releases Background Information PAM NTLM provides a centralized authentication service for HP-UX and Microsoft Windows NT servers or other UNIX servers running HP CIFS/9000 server. HP CIFS/9000 Client product includes the PAM NTLM that integrates HP-UX login with any CIFS/9000 server or Windows NT domain controller. Consult the user manual Installing and Administering the CIFS/9000 Client for detailed information on PAM-NTLM.
CIFS/9000 Client A.01.08 Known Problems and Workarounds Known Problems and Workarounds For the CIFS/9000 Client • The CIFS/9000 Client with ASU/9000 Servers There is a known, infrequent problem between the CIFS/9000 Client and ASU. If you find that a connection to an ASU server becomes inaccessible, turn off opportunistic locks (oplocks) for communications with ASU, in the CIFS Client configuration file /etc/opt/cifsclient/cifsclient.cfg.
CIFS/9000 Client A.01.08 Known Problems and Workarounds For PAM NTLM The passwd(1) program may not return any message (Success or Failure) in some cases. For example, if the user tries to change his password when the “user cannot change password” option is set on the NT server, the passwd command does not return a message. In such cases, check the return value of the passwd command (passwd returns zero for success) and the syslog file (/var/adm/syslog/syslog.log).
CIFS/9000 Client A.01.08 List of Documents Available with Product List of Documents Available with Product The list below contains documentation related to the CIFS/9000 Client • Installing and Administering the CIFS/9000 Client (B8724-90022). • CIFS/9000 Client Release Note (B8724-90023, this document). These documents are also available under the CIFS/9000 section of http://docs.hp.
CIFS/9000 Client A.01.08 Software Availability in Native Languages Software Availability in Native Languages The CIFS Client is designed to work with a multitude of native languages: most character-sets used in modern languages in Europe, the middle East, the Americas and Asia are supported. The character-set displayed on the CIFS Client console is configured with the parameter clientCharMapFile, which selects any one of the many character mapping files provided with the product.
CIFS/9000 Client A.01.08 Software Availability in Native Languages unimapCP852.cfg unimapCP855.cfg unimapCP857.cfg unimapCP860.cfg unimapCP861.cfg unimapCP862.cfg unimapCP863.cfg unimapCP864.cfg unimapCP865.cfg unimapCP866.cfg unimapCP869.cfg unimapCP874.cfg unimapNeXT.cfg unimapJIS.cfg unimapJIS201.cfg unimap-eucJP.
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