HP CIFS Client A.01.09.02 Release Notes, September 2004

HP CIFS Client A.01.09.02

Features and Fixes in Recent Releases

Chapter 16

For the HP CIFS Client A.01.09

• 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 2.3 can automatically perform direct and indirect

mounts of CIFS ﬁlesystems.

NOTE ONC AutoFS 2.3 Support applies to HP-UX 11i v1 and v 2. If you have the

HP-UX 11i v1 system, you must install the ONC software package,

Enhanced AutoFS, available at http://software.hp.com to enable the

AutoFS 2.3 support.

• Reduce number of packets required to do long directory listing

This enhancement improves performance of the “ls -l” command on mounted CIFS

ﬁlesystems.

• Fix for duplicate /etc/mnttab entries

This ﬁx eliminates a problem where, in certain instances, duplicate entries for

CIFS-mounted ﬁlesystems can be created in /etc/mnttab. Duplicate entries no longer

occur in the output of mount(1M).

• Eliminate NFS RPC timeout warnings on slow SMB responses

This ﬁx eliminates NFS warnings that can occur if a CIFS network request (an SMB) is

not completed before the NFS request timeout occurs.

NOTE The ﬁx for eliminating NFS RPC timeout warnings applies only to HP-UX

11i version 2.

• 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