HP CIFS Client A.01.09.02 Release Notes, September 2004

HP CIFS Client A.01.09.02

Features and Fixes in Recent Releases

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Features and Fixes in Recent Releases

The following features and ﬁxes are listed, beginning with the most recent release:

For the HP CIFS Client A.01.09.01

• Resolve defect of CIFS mount to Windows 2000 server becoming unusable

This ﬁx eliminates a problem where a CIFS mount to a Windows 2000 becomes

inaccessible under certain conditions.

• Resolve cifsclientd aborting due to exceeding maximum ﬁles per share limit

This ﬁx eliminates an abort caused by ﬁles of a mounted share exceeding the previously

supported limit of 8 million ﬁles. The new limit is 67 million ﬁles per mounted share. A

warning message is logged in the cifsclient log ﬁle if limit is exceeded.

• Display of CIFS /etc/mnttab entries delayed

A bug has been ﬁxed wherein, on HP-UX 11.0, if the HP CIFS ﬁlesystem is mounted using

the “mount -F cifs...” syntax, the results would sometimes not be displayed via the

mount(1M) command for up to several minutes. This ﬁx ensures that no delay occurs.

NOTE This ﬁx applies only to HP-UX 11.0.

• Misleading error if lookup of server address fails

When a user attempts to cifslogin to a mounted CIFS server, if the server’s IP address

cannot be found (gethostbyname(3N) fails), the CIFS Client displays the system error

message is “No such device or address”. The message is chosen from the standard Unix

system errors. Previously, the error was the somewhat misleading “Host is down”.

• ”\” delimiters lost in cifsclient status mntck function

This ﬁx addresses an obscure problem. When the status option is speciﬁed with the

cifsclient control script (/opt/cifsclient/bin/cifsclient), a new mntck function, which

checks for stale CIFS mounts, is called. If there is a stale mount, and the CIFS Client is

down, and the conﬁguration parameter mtabName is not null, then the “\” characters that

delimit the server and share names of the stale mount would be lost in the output of the

mntck function. This ﬁx corrects that problem.