HP CIFS Client A.01.09.03 Release Notes HP-UX 11.0, 11i v1 and 2 October 2004 Manufacturing Part Number : B8724-90065 E1004 U.S.A. © Copyright 2004 Hewlett-Packard Company.
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HP CIFS Client A.01.09.03 Announcement 1 HP CIFS Client A.01.09.03 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/ CIFS is the native networking protocol on Microsoft Windows operating systems. The HP CIFS products for HP-UX provide a wide range of integration strategies for HP-UX and Windows.
HP CIFS Client A.01.09.03 What’s New in Version A.01.09.03? What’s New in Version A.01.09.03? This release contains the following: • PAM-NTLM 64-bit libraries This release of the HP CIFS Client provides 64-bit PAM-NTLM libraries. NOTE • The fix for PAM-NTLM 64-bit libraries applies only to HP-UX 11i v2 and later. Sticky bit set on the /var/opt/cifsclient/krb5_tmp directory The directory’s sticky bit is now set on both installations and updates of the HP CIFS Client.
HP CIFS Client A.01.09.03 Features and Fixes in Recent Releases 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.01.09.02 Version A.09.01.02 of the HP CIFS Client is equivalent to version A.01.09.03, except for a rare problem that was fixed in A.09.01.03. Version A.01.09.02 was available only in limited release, before being superseded by A.01.09.03. For the HP CIFS Client A.01.09.
HP CIFS Client A.01.09.03 Features and Fixes in Recent Releases 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.
HP CIFS Client A.01.09.03 Features and Fixes in Recent Releases NOTE • The fix for eliminating NFS RPC timeout warnings applies only to HP-UX 11i v2. 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.
HP CIFS Client A.01.09.03 Features and Fixes in Recent Releases • 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.01.09.03 Features and Fixes in Recent Releases This fix improves the synchronization of file timestamps between HP CIFS clients and Windows servers, when the time changes between standard and daylight savings time. • NetBIOS scope broken if scope has embedded period (“.”) character(s) This fixes a bug in the parsing of NetBIOS scope. Scope is an old feature of the CIFS protocol and its use is discouraged.
HP CIFS Client A.01.09.03 Features and Fixes in Recent Releases 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.01.09.03 Features and Fixes in Recent Releases 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.com/ Troubleshooting Information for PAM-NTLM • If you are having difficulty accessing the password server configured in smb.
HP CIFS Client A.01.09.03 Features and Fixes in Recent Releases NOTE If you have not customized your configuration file in any way, you can simply copy cifsclient.cfg.default over your existing cifsclient.cfg. Use the following instructions to change to the new configuration parameters: 1. Change the value of runAsUser to runAsUser = “root”. runAsUser is in the global settings near the beginning of the file.
HP CIFS Client A.01.09.03 Features and Fixes in Recent Releases — Windows 2000 NOTE • See Known Problems and Workarounds below for important additional information about use of ASU Servers. Large-File Support The CIFS Client removed previous restriction of four gigabytes. PAM NTLM • Supports Password Expiration Password expiration now works on non-trusted HP-UX systems. Refer to the HP CIFS Client manual for configuration details. • Password change supports try_first_pass and use_first_pass options.
HP CIFS Client A.01.09.03 Features and Fixes in Recent Releases Notes, Cautions, and Warnings • It is assumed that the administrator is familiar with the general PAM framework. The administrator has to be fully aware of the consequences of modifying the PAM configuration file. • PAM Stacking may cause problems when used with password change and expiry because of the password policy differences between the PAM modules being stacked.
HP CIFS Client A.01.09.03 Known Problems and Workarounds Known Problems and Workarounds For the HP CIFS Client • Byte range lock is not supported Byte range locks over a cifs mount are not supported. Calls to lockf(1) and fcntl(1) over a cifsmount will fail. Support for byte range locks will be added in a future release of 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.
HP CIFS Client A.01.09.03 Known Problems and Workarounds 2. rmdir
# Remove directory itself. 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.HP CIFS Client A.01.09.03 List of Documents Available with Product List of Documents Available with Product The list below contains documentation related to the HP CIFS Client • HP CIFS Client A.01.09 Administrator’s Guide (B8724-90044). • HP CIFS Client A.01.09.03 Release Note (B8724-90065, this document). These documents are also available under the HP CIFS section of http://docs.hp.
HP CIFS Client A.01.09.03 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.01.09.03 Software Availability in Native Languages unimapCP865.cfg unimapCP866.cfg unimapCP869.cfg unimapCP874.cfg unimapNeXT.cfg unimapJIS.cfg unimapJIS201.cfg unimap-eucJP.
