HP CIFS Server Release Notes version A.03.02.
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Contents 1 HP CIFS Server Version A.03.02.00 Release Notes.........................................4 Announcement.........................................................................................................................4 What's new in HP CIFS Server A.03.02.00..................................................................................4 Product revision number.............................................................................................................
1 HP CIFS Server Version A.03.02.00 Release Notes Announcement This document describes HP CIFS Server A.03.02.00 changes, defect fixes, and other information. HP CIFS Server A.03.02.00 is supported on HP-UX 11i v2 and HP-UX 11i v3. What's new in HP CIFS Server A.03.02.00 HP CIFS Server A.03.02.00 is based on open source samba-3.6.6. CAUTION: HP supports only the HP CIFS Server binaries delivered by HP. You must use the swinstall utility to formally install versions of HP CIFS Server.
• Simplified Identity Mapping For this release, ID mapping has been rewritten yet again with the goal of making the configuration simpler and more coherent while keeping the needed flexibility and even adding to the flexibility in some respects. • Caching of user credentials by winbind Winbind allows to logon using cached credentials. Installation and patch requirements for HP CIFS Server A.03.02.00 Operating system requirements HP CIFS Server A.03.02.
Parameter Name Description Default ldap ssl ads New No ldap connection timeout New 2 log writeable files on exit New No multicast dns register New Yes ncalrpc dir New send spnego principal New No smb2 max credits New 128 smb2 max read New 1048576 smb2 max trans New 1048576 smb2 max write New 1048576 state directory New /var/opt/samba/locks cache directory New /var/opt/samba/locks registry shares New No winbind reconnect delay New 30 winbind expand groups New 1
Parameter Name Description Default client lanman auth Changed default No client plaintext auth Changed default No max open files Changed default 1024 max stat cache size Changed default 256 preferred master Changed default No idmap backend Changed default tdb idmap cache time Changed default 604800 wide links Changed default No ldap ssl Modified start tls allocation roundup size Modified 1048576 kernel oplocks Modified Yes idmap alloc backend Removed use kerberos keytab
Table 3 Defects fixed in HP CIFS Server Version A.03.01.04 (continued) Identifier Description Resolution QXCR1001121562 The HP CIFS Server does not support This issue is fixed in this release. winbind nested groups and this is documented in the HP CIFS Server Administrators Guide. Starting with HP CIFS server version A.02.04.xx onwards, the default value for winbind nested groups is changed from no to yes.
Table 4 Defects fixed in HP CIFS Server Version A.03.01.03 (continued) Identifier Description Resolution • vfs_shadow_copy.8 • vfs_shadow_copy2.8 • winbind_krb5_locator.7 NOTE: In addition to the auditing manpages, other functionality manpages that are not supported by HP CIFS Server are also removed. QXCR1001115123 If a CIFS share is used as a This issue is fixed in this release. mountpoint for both nfs and autofs, the DNS lookup incorrectly takes the autofs map file as a hostname.
# chatr smbd | grep "address space model" address space model: default Workaround No workaround exists. Issue If you run the command smbstatus, the following error is displyed: # smbstatus -d0 sessionid.tdb not initialised This is normal behaviour if an SMB client has never connected to your server. connections.tdb not initialised Workaround No workaround exists.
Workaround No workaround exists. Issue When you upgrade from A.03.01a to A.03.01.01 or later versions, the swinstall command fails with the following message: A later revision (one with a higher revision number)of fileset | | | | | | | | fileset "CIFS-Development.CIFS-PRG,r=A.03.01.01" has already been installed. Either remove this fileset or change the "allow_downdate" option to "true". * Reading source for file information. * Executing preDSA command. NOTE: Could not install the bundle "B8725AA,r=A.03.
Issue Changing the password stored in the smbpasswd file from a Windows XP machine without the sign-and-seal patch fails and corrupts the user's password. Workaround The administrator must reset the password. Issue 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.
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.
2 Related Documentation To obtain the documents, refer to the following sources and then select HP-UX Common Internet File System (CIFS) Client/Server Software: • HP CIFS Server Administrators Guide, is available at: www.hp.com/go/hpux-networking-docs • Release Notes for this version and for previous versions of HP CIFS Server are available at: www.hp.
