HP CIFS Client A.01.09.01 Release Notes, January 2004

HP CIFS Client A.01.09.01
Features and Fixes in Recent Releases
Chapter 1 11
NOTE The fix for eliminating NFS RPC timeout warnings applies only to
HP-UX 11i version 2.
• Resolve defect of CIFS mounts becoming unuseable
This fix eliminates a cause of a rare problem wherein a CIFS mount
can become inaccessible under certain conditions.
• cifsclientd core due to server protocol error
This fix eliminates an abort caused by a third-party CIFS server
which transmits an SMB negotiate response packet with an incorrect
databyte count. The fix also correctly determines the value that
should have been transmitted by the server.
• Enhancements to PAM NTLM
PAM NTLM now supports the ignore option, as well as per-user
configuration within the pam_user.conf(4) and pam_updbe(5)
framework. Please refer to these manpages for explanations and
examples of usage.
• Add support for new infolevel for FIND_FIRST and FIND_NEXT
SMBs
This enhancement improves interoperability with third-party CIFS
Servers that do not support older SMB infolevels.
• Directory size displayed by “ls -l” is now configurable
Many CIFS file servers, including all versions of Windows, that do
not use the CIFS UNIX Extensions, have no notion of UNIX
directory size. When a long listing of such a filesystem is requested
(“ls -l”), the CIFS Client can display only a dummy value for
directory size, because it represents an entity that does not exist on
the remote file system. Previously, the displayed value was
hard-coded. With this release, it can be configured. Any positive
integer up to the default 131072 (128*1024 ) can be specified.
• New option for representation of mounted CIFS filesystems