HP CIFS Server 3.0a Release Note version A.02.01

HP CIFS Server Release Note
Known Problems and Workarounds
Chapter 1 19
Problem The HP CIFS Server creates a smbnull user for guest access, which does
not have or require a home directory. However the password/group file
checker tool, pwck, on HP-UX always assumes that each entry in the
/etc/passwd file should have its own login directory. If there is no entry,
the pwck command will complain about it and give the following checking
result:
smbnull:*:101:101:DO NOT USE OR DELETE - needed by
Samba:/home/smbnull:/sbin/sh Login directory not found
For the same reason, the pwck command also complains for machine
trust accounts in the HP CIFS Server.
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 to 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,
Q818528. 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 You don’t install the hotfix, Q818528, on the windows 2003. This hotfix
only applies to the Windows 2000.