CIFS/9000 Client Release Note, March 2002

CIFS/9000 Client A.01.07
What’s New in Version A.01.07?
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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.01.07, and earlier,
of the CIFS/9000 Server.
• ASCII decode of hexadecimal NetBIOS traces
The CIFS Client “netbiosTrace” log level option now also displays the
ASCII equivalent of the default hexadecimal byte-stream. Users are
reminded that log levels should be left at their default settings
unless they are required for troubleshooting since increased log
levels impede performance.
Other New Information
A new version of the HP-UX mountall(1M) command has been issued as
patch PHCO_24777. This patch fixes two problems that can occur in any
release of the CIFS Client. The problems arise when there are CIFS
entries in /etc/fstab and involve extraneous error or warning messages.
In one case, if the CIFS Client is configured to start at boot, a misleading
error is placed in /etc/rc.log. The message will resemble the following:
Mount file systems
Output from “/sbin/rc1.d/S100localmount start”:
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mountall: cannot mount server:/share
mountall: diagnostics from mount
ipcclient: error connecting to daemon: [239] Connection
refused
ipcclient: CIFS Client is down.
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/