HP CIFS Client A.01.09.01 Release Notes, January 2004

HP CIFS Client A.01.09.01
What’s New in Version A.01.09.01?
Chapter 18
What’s New in Version A.01.09.01?
This release contains the following fixes:
• Resolve defect of CIFS mount to Windows 2000 server becoming
unusable
This fix eliminates a problem where a CIFS mount to a Windows
2000 becomes inaccessible under certain conditions.
• Resolve cifsclientd aborting due to exceeding maximum files per
share limit
This fix eliminates an abort caused by files of a mounted share
exceeding the previously supported limit of 8 million files. The new
limit is 67 million files per mounted share. A warning message is
logged in the cifsclient log file if limit is exceeded.
• Display of CIFS /etc/mnttab entries delayed
A bug has been fixed wherein, on HP-UX 11.0, if the HP CIFS
filesystem is mounted using the “mount -F cifs...” syntax, the
results would sometimes not be displayed via the mount(1M)
command for up to several minutes. This fix ensures that no delay
occurs.
NOTE This fix applies only to HP-UX 11.0.
• Misleading error if lookup of server address fails
When a user attempts to cifslogin to a mounted CIFS server, if
the server’s IP address cannot be found (gethostbyname(3N) fails),
the CIFS Client displays the system error message is “No such device
or address”. The message is chosen from the standard Unix system
errors. Previously, the error was the somewhat misleading “Host is
down”.
• ”\” delimiters lost in cifsclient status mntck function
This fix addresses an obscure problem. When the status option is
specified with the cifsclient control script
(/opt/cifsclient/bin/cifsclient), a new mntck function, which checks