HP CIFS Server 3.0f Release Notes version A.02.03 for HP-UX 11i v3 (December 2006)

Known Problems and Workarounds

The following is a list of known problems and, where possible, the appropriate workarounds for the HP CIFS

Server A.02.03

Problem

Share mode security does not work with POSIX ACLs.

Workaound

Microsoft servers do not support share mode security and Windows NT ACLs. No workaround currently

exists.

Problem

Matching single characters in file names from the DOS prompt on a shared CIFS Server drive using wild

card operations and multi-byte character sets does not always work (for example, using Japanese Shift-JIS

and ???? matches two multi-byte characters instead of four multi-byte characters).

Workaround

Use ?? for each single character. For example, if you are trying to match 4 characters, you must use 8 wild

cards, ????????.

Problem

After changing the domain of HP CIFS Server, the user takes a long time to logon.

Workaround

Delete /var/opt/samba/private/secrets.tdb and the .tdb files in /var/opt/samba/locks to

avoid mixed run-time internal databases before changing the domain of HP CIFS Server.

Problem

Creation of symlinks using UNIX extension fails if a full path is used to specify the symlink.

Workaround

Change to the directory where the symlink will reside and create the link using relative path.

Problem

Once the wins server option is set in the smb.conf file, it cannot be cleared using SWAT utility

Workaround

Edit the smb.conf file manually to remove the wins server entry.

Problem

A non-root user running smbstatus may receive the following errors when there are established connections

to Samba:

"/var/opt/samba/locks/connections.tdb not initialized. This is normal if an

SMB client has never connected to your server."

Workaround

The current version of smbstatus requires the write access permission for

/var/opt/samba/locks/connections.tdb, /var/opt/samba/locks/locking.tdb and

/var/opt/samba/locks/brlock.tdb files.

For a workaround, ensure that any users attempting to run smbstatus are given the write access to these

files.