HP CIFS Client A.02.02 Administrator's Guide

Configuration File
Configuration Parameters
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This boolean variable configures whether NetBIOS
broadcast is enabled. WINS is feature of the NetBIOS
name server. To enable WINS lookup, you must set this
variable to yes and specify the nbnsWinsIp variable
with the IP address of the WINS server. The CIFS
servers to which you want to connect must be
registered with the WINS server. By default, this
parameter is set to yes.
lookupTryDns This variable configures whether Domain Name Server
(DNS) lookup is enabled. The default setting is yes.
fileCreateMask This variable allows you to specify a mask for the
UNIX permissions mode of a file upon creation. The
actual mode of the new file will be the result of the
logical OR of the mask and the default mode for the
operation. The default value of fileCreateMask is 0,
which does not affect the file creation mode. This
setting is useful only with CIFS servers that use CIFS
UNIX extensions. Windows servers do not support
UNIX file permissions. Refer to the man page
umask(1) for more information.
allowBackslashesInPaths
This is a boolean variable with default setting no.
When this parameter is set to yes, DOS-style
backslashes can be used to refer to paths on CIFS
servers. The first backslash in the path must refer to a
file or subdirectory at least one level below the root of
the share, and backslashes must be protected from
interpretation by the shell. For example, the following
path references are recognized:
‘/local_mountpoint/dir_at_top_level_of_share\
subdir\file’
/local_mountpoint/dir_at_top_level_of_share\\
subdir\\file
but this is not valid:
‘/local_mountpoint\dir_at_top_level_of_share\
subdir\file’
The standard UNIX forward-slash path delimiter is
always recognized: