HP CIFS Server Release Notes version A.03.01.06 (769570-002, June 2014)

Workaround

When required to accommodate the intra/inter-forest trusts that HP CIFS member servers might be

exposed to in a forest, shortcut trusts can be explicitly created. HP CIFS PDCs support external

trusts, which can be sufficient for Samba and Windows inter-domain trust relationships. For more

information about Windows 2000/2003 trusts, see the MS TechNet documentation at http://

technet.microsoft.com.

Issue

An existing POSIX machine account must already exist before you add the corresponding Samba

machine account and the sambaSamAccount information required for HP CIFS server machine

account authentication. You can use the useradd command to add the POSIX machine account

with $ at the end to the /etc/passwd file for HP CIFS server to recognize it as a machine account.

If the POSIX machine account does not exist, running the pwck command displays the following

error message:

1 Bad character(s) in logname

Workaround

No workaround exists.

Issue

Use the useradd command to add the POSIX machine account with a $ at the end to the /etc/

passwd file for HP CIFS server to recognize it as a machine account. The pwck command might

display the following error message:

The above error indicates that the home directory does not exist.

Workaround

Use the -m option with useradd when adding a POSIX machine account. If the home directory

does not exist for the new account, it is created.

Issue

The delete operation on a large number of files from a directory takes a long time to complete.

Workaround

Close Windows Explorer after the delete process is started. Beginning with A.02.03.01, another

workaround is to set the change notify timeout smb.conf parameter to 0. When set to

0, change notification messages are not sent and long delays do not occur. Clients must initiate

updates to view changes (by pressing F5) that might have occurred on the file share. Beginning

with A.02.03.01, the change notify timeout parameter moves from a global to share level

parameter. The change notify timeout parameter is not available starting from A.02.04.

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