HP CIFS Client A.01.09 Release Note HP-UX 11.0, 11i version 1 and 2 Manufacturing Part Number : B8724-90047 E0803 U.S.A. © Copyright 2003 Hewlett-Packard Company.
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HP CIFS Client A.01.09 Announcement 1 HP CIFS Client A.01.09 Announcement NOTE For the latest information on the HP CIFS Client, refer to the HP CIFS product documentation in the Networking and Communications section of the HP documentation website: http://docs.hp.com/ With HP CIFS, Hewlett-Packard provides a Common Internet File System (CIFS) implementation on HP-UX 11.i. CIFS is the Microsoft protocol for remote file access.
HP CIFS Client A.01.09 What’s New in Version A.01.09? What’s New in Version A.01.09? This release contains the following enhancements: • Kerberos Authentication This release provides Kerberos authentication within the cifslogin and cifsmount commands, and provides a method for automatic CIFS logins by integrating CIFS authentication with programs that utilize the system Kerberos cache, such as PAM KERBEROS and kinit(1). • ONC AutoFS 2.3 Support With this release , ONC AutoFS version 2.
HP CIFS Client A.01.09 What’s New in Version A.01.09? • Resolve defect of CIFS mounts becoming unuseable This fix eliminates a cause of a rare problem wherein a CIFS mount can become inaccessible under certain conditions. • cifsclientd core due to server protocol error This fix eliminates an abort caused by a third-party CIFS server which transmits an SMB negotiate response packet with an incorrect databyte count.
HP CIFS Client A.01.09 What’s New in Version A.01.09? cifslist without options is now equivalent to cifslist -A. Help is still available with cifslist -h. • Enhancements to cifsclient control script — The cifsclient shutdown message now displays a list of CIFS filesystems that are unmounted, or a message stating there were none to unmount. Extraneous notes in the startup and shutdown messages have been removed. — Shortcuts to the Kerberos commands, klist(1) and kdestroy(1), have been implemented.
HP CIFS Client A.01.09 Features and Fixes in Recent Releases Features and Fixes in Recent Releases The following features and fixes are listed, beginning with the most recent. • 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.
HP CIFS Client A.01.09 Features and Fixes in Recent Releases The Japanese-language character-map files for ShiftJIS encoding have been modified to include symbols for integers-in-circles in the range [1 - 20], and various mathematical, Katakana and other symbols. 74 character mappings have been added. • Latest revision of CIFS Unix Extensions, v2.
HP CIFS Client A.01.09 Features and Fixes in Recent Releases from 20 seconds to 60 seconds. For slow networks, or environments with slow servers or links, this helps prevent the HP CIFS 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 HP CIFS Client This improves reliability of the NFS interface to the HP CIFS client.
HP CIFS Client A.01.09 Features and Fixes in Recent Releases 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.
HP CIFS Client A.01.09 Features and Fixes in Recent Releases • requestTimeout • nfsAttributeCaching (you will need to add this one) 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.
HP CIFS Client A.01.09 Features and Fixes in Recent Releases • Support for Internationalized Clients A variety of internationalized clients can be supported with the HP CIFS Client through the use of either Unicode or any of several character-mapping files provided in /etc/opt/cifsclient/unitables.
HP CIFS Client A.01.09 Features and Fixes in Recent Releases PAM NTLM returns correct error codes so that the applications can return appropriate error messages in case of authentication failures. Background Information PAM NTLM provides a centralized authentication service for HP-UX and Microsoft Windows NT servers or other UNIX servers running HP HP CIFS server. HP HP CIFS Client product includes the PAM NTLM that integrates HP-UX login with any HP CIFS server or Windows NT domain controller.
HP CIFS Client A.01.09 Known Problems and Workarounds Known Problems and Workarounds For the HP CIFS Client • The HP CIFS Client with ASU/9000 Servers There is a known, infrequent problem between the HP CIFS 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.
HP CIFS Client A.01.09 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).
HP CIFS Client A.01.09 List of Documents Available with Product List of Documents Available with Product The list below contains documentation related to the HP CIFS Client • Installing and Administering the HP CIFS Client (B8724-90022). • HP CIFS Client Release Note (B8724-90023, this document). These documents are also available under the HP CIFS section of http://docs.hp.
HP CIFS Client A.01.09 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.
HP CIFS Client A.01.09 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.
