CIFS/9000 Client Release Note Version A.01.07 Manufacturing Part Number: B8724-90013 E0302 U.S.A. © Copyright 2002 Hewlett-Packard Company.
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CIFS/9000 Client A.01.07 Announcement 1 CIFS/9000 Client A.01.07 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.01.07 What’s New in Version A.01.07? What’s New in Version A.01.07? This release contains the following fixes and enhancements: • Disconnected user sessions cannot reconnect This enhancement enables user connections that have been terminated by the server to be automatically re-established when the user attempts to access the server. • Logfile truncation at max size does not work This fix enforces the maximum logfile size of 50 Mbytes.
CIFS/9000 Client A.01.07 What’s New in Version A.01.07? It is highly recommended that customers upgrade to version A.01.07 of the CIFS/9000 Client if they will be connecting to servers that support the v2.1 specification. These servers include CIFS/9000 Servers, version A.01.08 and Samba Servers, version 2.2.3. The implementation of the v2.1 specification, in version A.01.07 of the CIFS/9000 Client, is backwards compatible with previous implementations of the specification in versions A.01.
CIFS/9000 Client A.01.07 Features and Fixes in Recent Releases Features and Fixes in Recent Releases • A change has been implemented in the caching of file attributes that improves synchronization of directory listings on the client with actual file attributes on the server. • The section on configuring the PAM-NTLM module in the Installing and Administering the CIFS/9000 Client manual contains new and updated information regarding the use of password servers and WINS servers.
CIFS/9000 Client A.01.07 Features and Fixes in Recent Releases Troubleshooting Information for PAM-NTLM • If you are having difficulty accessing the password server configured in smb.conf, PAM-NTLM can utilize an lmhosts file on the local system to look up its address. To utilize this functionality, create the file, /etc/opt/samba/lmhosts, containing entries, one per line, in the following format where netbios_name is the password server used by PAM-NTLM.
CIFS/9000 Client A.01.07 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.01.07 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.01.07 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. PAM NTLM authenticates the users using encrypted passwords. PAM NTLM also supports password change and password expiry.
CIFS/9000 Client A.01.07 Features and Fixes in Recent Releases Password Management The password management module provides a function to change passwords in the NT server database. The following options may be passed to this PAM module: use_first_pass, try_first_pass and debug. With the debug option, PAM NTLM prints debug messages to syslog. Refer to the PAM documentation for details on the other options. NOTE Read the PAM documentation for understanding the use_first_pass and try_first_pass options.
CIFS/9000 Client A.01.07 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.01.07 Known Problems and Workarounds 2. rmdir
# Remove directory itself. 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.01.07 Compatibility Information and Installation Requirements Compatibility Information and Installation Requirements Prior to installing the CIFS/9000 Client, check that your system can accommodate the following requirements and limitations. HP-UX 11.i System Requirements HP recommends the following as minimal system requirements: • 11.i 32-bit: 128MB RAM, 1-2GB disc • 11.
CIFS/9000 Client A.01.07 Patches and Fixes in This Version Patches and Fixes in This Version Refer to the “What’s New in Version A.01.07?” section on page 4 of this document for details on fixes and enhancements in this release of the CIFS/9000 client. List of Documents Available with Product The list below contains documentation related to the CIFS/9000 Client • Installing and Administering the CIFS/9000 Client (B8724-90011). • CIFS/9000 Client Release Note (B8724-90013, this document).
CIFS/9000 Client A.01.07 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.01.07 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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