HP CIFS Client A.01.09 Administrator's Guide, August 2003

Configuration File
Configuration Variables
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machine, the HP CIFS Client automatically limits the
range. Increase the buffer size if you have extremely
slow writes.
nfsSockTxBuf This integer variable sets the transmit buffer size of
the socket used to communicate with the kernel. It is
not be necessary to set an explicit buffer size.
nfsTransferSize This integer variable defines the maximum block size
used in data transfer between the kernel and HP CIFS
Client. The maximum allowed value is 8k (8192). It
may be necessary to reduce the value if the NFS socket
has frequent overflows, as it may be the case with AIX
3.x. It is useful to use only powers of 2 as block sizes.
The default is 8192.
scopeID This string variable defines the Netbios name scope of
the client. If it is not defined, no scope ID is used. If you
do not know what a scope ID is, you do not need one.
rmTmpKerbCredFiles
When kerberos authentication is used, the CIFS Client
utilizes a temporary file to store users’ credentials
during login processing. There is one temporary
credentials file per user per server. Kerberos ticketsare
not reused by the CIFS Client, thus when the user’s
login processing is complete, the temporary file is
removed. If required for troubleshooting, the files can
be preserved by setting this variable to “no”. The files
are located in /var/opt/cifsclient/krb5_tmp.
defaultServer The baroque structure of CIFS has its mirror in the
multitude of configuration options for CIFS
connections. This variable defines a default behavior
which can be overridden by specific configurations for
each server. The value is a dictionary with the
following keys:
localNetbiosName
This entry can be used to set the
Netbios name for the client that is
sent to the server.