HP CIFS Server 2.2m Release Note version A.01.11.05

HP CIFS Server Release Note

Known Problems and Workarounds

Chapter 116

Problem Changing the password stored in the smbpasswd ﬁle from a Windows XP

machine without the sign and seal patch will fail and corrupt the

password for the user. The password must then be reset by the

administrator if this occurs.

Problem When you use terminal server clients to access shares on a CIFS server,

all of the clients from that terminal server connect over a single virtual

connection, and are serviced by a single SMBD process on the CIFS

Server. This can lead to a number of issues, including too many ﬁles

open by a process, too many locks, and performance degredation for the

clients, since they all share a single SMBD process.

Workaround For the Windows NT, you can set a registry parameter,

MultipleUsersOnConnection, to 1 which forces each terminal server

client to negotiate its own connection, so that each client gets a separate

SMBD process.

For the Windows 2000 terminal services, Microsoft provides a hotﬁx,

id:818528. You can apply this hotﬁx and set the following values:

Subkey:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\MRxSmb\ /

Parameters

Type:REG_DWORD

Entry: MultiUserEnabled

Value: 1

NOTE The hotﬁx referenced in the MS article id:818528 only applies to

Windows 2000. Do not install it on the Windows 2003.

For detailed information on the hotﬁx, see the Microsoft article id:818528

article at: http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?kbid=818528