CIFS/9000 Client Release Note, March 2002

CIFS/9000 Client A.01.07
Features and Fixes in Recent Releases
Chapter 16
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. HP suggests incorporating the wins server parameter
into your existing smb.conf file as shown in the new version of
smb.conf.default. These files are located in /etc/opt/cifsclient/pam.
• Default value increased for SMB time-outs
The default configured value for requestTimeout has been increased
from 20 seconds to 60 seconds. For slow networks, or environments
with slow servers or links, this helps prevent the CIFS/9000 client
from entering an unstable state that can result when a connection is
dropped due to an unanswered SMB request.
• 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. The default setting is
nfsAttributeCaching = no, which maintains the same behavior as
in previous releases.
• Korean Language support
A new character mapping file, unimap-eucKR.cfg, allows for support
of localized Korean HP-UX systems with the CIFS/9000 client. See
the Installing and Administering the CIFS/9000 Client manual for
an explanation of how to configure character-map files.