HP CIFS Client A.01.09 Release Notes, August 2003

HP CIFS Client A.01.09
Features and Fixes in Recent Releases
Chapter 18
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, v2.1
The Hewlett-Packard-authored CIFS Unix Extensions enable
standard Unix file system semantics, such as symbolic links, file
ownership and permissions to be implemented within the CIFS
protocol. The latest revision of the specification, developed in
collaboration with the Samba open-source project, provides greater
inter operability through a new model for handling file sizes across
platforms.
It is highly recommended that customers upgrade to version A.01.07
of the HP CIFS Client if they will be connecting to servers that
support the v2.1 specification. These servers include HP CIFS
Servers, version A.01.07 and Samba Servers, version 2.2.3. The
implementation of the v2.1 specification, in versionA.01.07 of the HP
CIFS Client, is backwards compatible with previous
implementations of the specification in versions A.01.07, and earlier,
of the HP CIFS 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.
• 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 HP CIFS 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