HP CIFS Client A.02.02.03 Release Notes

Changes and Fixes in Previous Release
Problems Fixed in Version A.02.02.02
HP CIFS Client A.02.02.02 is a maintenance release. Users are encouraged to upgrade to this
version, several defects have been fixed, and few changes have been made, as described below.
HP CIFS Client A.02.02.02 provides the following fixes. For detailed information about few
changed features, see “New or Changed Features in Version A.02.02.02” section.
• Re-connection to a rebooted Windows 2003 server
If a CIFS server is rebooted while there are active CIFS Client mounts or logins on the server,
after the server has come back up, the CIFS Client automatically and transparently re-establishes
the mounts and logins when a process on the client system initiates an operation on any of
the mounts.
A problem has been fixed in which the re-connection routine to a rebooted Windows 2003
server could fail. The root cause is that Windows 2003, unlike its predecessors, does not shut
down all its networking services simultaneously, the CIFS and NetBIOS services close but
TCP/IP stays up for some period. The CIFS Client has been modified to accommodate this
behavior.
• Resolution of paths on third-party CIFS servers
(JAGag28058)
An interoperability issue, in which paths can not be properly resolved in a third-party CIFS
server's file system, has been fixed. The problem was discovered in an environment in which
a recent version of EMC Corporation's CIFS server used the HP CIFS Client. The root cause
of this problem was inconsistent use of the Distributed File System flag in the SMB header
between the client and server.
• Eliminate a DLKM error message in syslog on HP-UX 11i v2 only
(JAGag19830)
This fix eliminates a problem on HP-UX 11i v2 where, after a system reboots, an error message
related to the CIFS Client Dynamically Loadable Kernel Module (DLKM) is written to
/var/adm/syslog/syslog.log. The message produces only that the CIFS Client's default setting
for DLKM is used. The error message is:
Sep 26 16:22:58 system_name vmunix: NOTICE: mod_fs_reg: Cannot retrieve
configured loading phase from KRS for module: cifs. Setting to load at INIT
• Misleading error if x-bit not set on Samba share
(JAGag24925)
When the HP CIFS Client is used with the HP CIFS Server, or other Samba servers, and the
CIFS UNIX Extensions are in use (which is the default), and if the execute bit is not set for the
UNIX group “others” on a shared directory on the Samba server, then when the CIFS Client
attempts to mount the share, the mount fails. In earlier releases of the CIFS Client, the following,
misleading, error was displayed:
RW: You are not owner of the mount point
This has been changed to the actual error returned by the server:
DOS: Access denied
You can make the share mountable and avoid the error altogether by setting the execute bit
for the UNIX group “others” on the shared directory on the server.
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