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 112
In previous releases, the representation of mounted CIFS filesystems
in the output of mount(1M) and bdf(1) followed a proprietary form.
In this release, the standard UNIX representation of a mounted
filesystem (server:/share) can be displayed by setting the
configuration parameter, mtabName, to the null string:
mtabName = “ “
• -A option to cifslist no longer needed
cifslist without options is now equivalent to cifslist -A. Help is
still available with cifslist -h.
• Enhancements to cifsclient control script
— The cifsclient shutdown message now displays a list of CIFS
filesystems that are unmounted, or a message stating there were
none to unmount. Extraneous notes in the startup and shutdown
messages have been removed.
— Shortcuts to the Kerberos commands, klist(1) and
kdestroy(1), have been implemented. These shortcuts are
customized to operate on multiple CIFS Client specific Kerberos
credentials files. See the man page for cifsclient in the HP
CIFS Client Administrator’s Guide or enter cifsclient -h for
details.
— A shortcut to fuser(1M) has been implemented. This allows the
system administrator to easily discover which users are
accessing CIFS mountpoints, in the event that the unmount
commnad fails with “device busy”. See the man page for
cifsclient in the HP CIFS Client Administrator’s Guide or
enter cifsclient -h for details.
— cifsclient status has been enhanced to check for possibly
stale CIFS mounts (system mount table entries of fstype cifs
that are not recongnized by the CIFS Client).
For the HP CIFS Client A.01.08 and earlier
• Error reporting by PAM-NTLM
Error reporting by the PAM-NTLM module has been enhanced such
that if PAM-NTLM cannot connect to the password server, an
appropriate message is written to syslog.
• PAM-NTLM can fail to handle Unix password expiration