HP CIFS Client A.01.09.03 Release Notes, October 2004

HP CIFS Client A.01.09.03
Features and Fixes in Recent Releases
Chapter 1 11
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.conf,
PAM-NTLM can utilize an lmhosts file on the local system to look up its address. To
utilize this functionality, create the file, /etc/opt/samba/lmhosts, containing entries, one
per line, in the following format where netbios_name is the password server used by
PAM-NTLM.
ip_address <one or more tabs or spaces> netbios_name
• If you are going to remove the PAM-NTLM fileset (or the entire HP CIFS Client) from
your system, ensure that all references to the libpam_ntlm.1 library have been removed
from /etc/pam.conf. Your system can become inaccessible if PAM-NTLM is configured in
/etc/pam.conf but the PAM-NTLM libraries are removed from the system.
• Use caution when editing /etc/pam.conf. You should have a good understanding of the
PAM framework before modifying this file. A misconfigured /etc/pam.conf can make the
system inaccessible or cause a serious security breach, such as allowing root access to
anyone, without a password. See the reference to pam.conf in section 4 of the HP-UX
manpages and in the PAM-NTLM Configuration section in Installing and Administering
the HP CIFS Client.
Recommended Configuration Values
HP recommends changing the value of the following three configuration parameters to their
new default values:
• runAsUser
• requestTimeout
• nfsAttributeCaching (you will need to add this one)
You can either compare the new default file, /etc/opt/cifsclient.cfg.default, to your existing
cifsclient.cfg, or make the modifications manually. Leave the cifsclient.cfg.default file
unchanged and use it as a reference.