HP CIFS Server 3.0f Release Notes version A.02.03

New and Changed Features in Version A.02.03
This release contains the following new enhancements and changes:
Winbind Supports Non-blocking, Asynchronous Functionality
This release of winbind supports an almost completely non-blocking, asynchronous request/reply
implementation (with the exception of user and group enumeration). With this new enhancement, winbind
provides better scalability in large domain environments and on high latency networks.
Winbind uses the blocking, synchronous behavior when enumerating users and groups. Set both winbind
enum users and winbind enum groups to No, to force winbind to suppress the enumeration of
users/groups. The default settings of these two parameters are Yes.
TDB Memory Map Support
This release supports performance enhancements which include enabling the configuration parameter
"use mmap" to take advantage of fixed size memory map access of CIFS's Trivial Database (TDB) files.
The mechanism and number of TDB files using memory-mapped access has been tuned respective of the
OS (HP-UX 11i v1 and v2 PA or 11i v2 IA).
For detailed information, refer to the "TDB Memory Map for HP CIFS Server" section of Chapter 12 in the
HP CIFS Server A.02.03 Administrator's Guide or man smb.conf.
NOTE:
Do not have binaries from mixed versions of mmap and non-mmap daemons/utilities of CIFS Server
in the /opt/samba/bin subdirectory.
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• You must use the tdbbackup utility to backup TDB files. Do not use the cp command to backup
TDB files.
Red Hat Directory Server v7 Support
HP CIFS Server adds support for Red Hat Directory Server v7, product number NSDirSvr7, in addition
to Netscape Directory Server v6, product number J4258CA.
New —W option for smbpasswd
The new —W option has been added as another option to the smbpasswd utility to change the ldap admin
dn password information. With the -W option, the user is prompted for the password. The password is
entered using stdin, thus the clear text password never appears on the command line.
Changed Features
The following is a list of changed features in HP CIFS Server A.02.03:
• The default values for winbind enum groups and winbind enum users are changed to No.
• The printer admin option has been deprecated in favor of the SePrintOperatorPrivilege
option. You can use SePrintOperatorPrivilege to set administrative privileges to a user for the
printers. For example, the following command grants administrative privileges to a user:
net rpc rights grant 'HPSVR1\cifsuser' SePrintOperatorPrivilege
-Administrator%cifs Successfully granted rights.
The HP CIFS Server still supports the printer admin parameter.
• The ldap filter parameter in the smb.conf file is removed. The HP CIFS Server will always use
the uid=%u as the search filter. The search filter is designed to match the login name with the uid
attribute for all entries matching the sambaAccount objectclass.
• HP CIFS Server accommodation of some Windows 2000/2003 Domain trusts has changed. HP CIFS
Servers support external trusts and shortcut trusts, but not all intra/inter-forest trusts will be
recognized. See “Known Problems and Workarounds” (page 14) for details.
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