HP CIFS Client A.01.09 Release Notes, August 2003

HP CIFS Client A.01.09

What’s New in Version A.01.09?

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• 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 anSMB negotiate responsepacket with an incorrect

databyte count. The ﬁx also correctly determines the value that

should have been transmitted by the server.

• Enhancements to PAM NTLM

PAM NTLM now supports the ignore option, as well as per-user

conﬁguration within the pam_user.conf(4) and pam_updbe(5)

framework. Please refer to these manpages for explanations and

examples of usage.

• Add support for new infolevel for FIND_FIRST and FIND_NEXT

SMBs

This enhancement improves interoperability with third-party CIFS

Servers that do not support older SMB infolevels.

• Directory size displayed by “ls -l” is now conﬁgurable

Many CIFS ﬁle servers, including all versions of Windows, that do

not use the CIFS UNIX Extensions, have no notion of UNIX

directory size. When a long listing of such a ﬁlesystem is requested

(“ls -l”), the CIFS Client can display only a dummy value for

directory size, because it represents an entity that does not exist on

the remote ﬁle system. Previously, the displayed value was

hard-coded. With this release, it can be conﬁgured. Any positive

integer up to the default 131072 (128*1024 ) can be speciﬁed.

• New option for representation of mounted CIFS ﬁlesystems

In previous releases, the representation of mounted CIFS ﬁlesystems

in the output of mount(1M) and bdf(1) followed a proprietary form.

In this release, the standard UNIX representation of a mounted

ﬁlesystem (server:/share) can be displayed by setting the

conﬁguration parameter, mtabName, to the null string:

mtabName = “ “

• -A option to cifslist no longer needed