HP CIFS Client A.02.02.01 Release Notes

New or Changed Features in Version A.02.02.01
This release contains the following changes.
New cifslogout -a (all) option
This option allows users to log out from all current CIFS login sessions. This is particularly useful in environments
which use the CIFS Client's Distributed File System feature (DFS), wherein several CIFS logins can be created
in the background as users traverse a DFS tree.
System administrators who wish to log all users out from all CIFS sessions, without restarting the CIFS Client,
can create a shell script with code such as the following:
#!/usr/bin/sh
for user in $(cifslist -urs " " | awk '{ print $2 }') ; do
su $user -c “cifslogout -a”
done
Make 32-bit errors default
The CIFS Client now negotiates 32-bit error codes with CIFS servers by default, rather than the older DOS
error class, error code model. This enhancement was implemented for improved compatibility with modern
CIFS servers.
Improved Logging
Several logging enhancements have been made in this release. These are mainly intended to help HP
engineers diagnose potential problems customers encounter using this software.
• Process information for caught signals
An enhancement of the CIFS Client signal-handling code allows the daemon, upon receipt of a signal
from another process, to log the name, process id, and user id of that process. This is a diagnostic
feature; under normal conditions, no process should send such signals.
• Client-server connections
The CIFS Client now logs by default (via the log level smbConnect) informational messages regarding
various client-server connections: TCP connections, CIFS logins and logouts, and CIFS mounts and
umounts of remote shares.
• CIFS mount notifications in syslog
The CIFS Client now also writes notifications of CIFS mount and umounts to the HP-UX syslog
(/var/adm/syslog/syslog.log).
• Expanded headers and entries
The headers in the logfiles now contain the CIFS Client version and process id, and the year has been
added to the timestamp for each log entry.
Configuration parameters
The following parameters are no longer configurable starting with this release:
sockMode, sockOwner, sockGroup
These parameters pertain to the UNIX permissions of the socket on which the CIFS Client daemon listens for
requests from CIFS Client commands (mount -F cifs, cifsmount, cifslist, etc.). The default values
of these parameters should not been changed, hence their values are no longer read from the configuration
file. The values are sockMode = 0666, sockOwner = root, sockGroup = root.
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