HP CIFS Client A.02.01 Release Notes HP-UX 11i v1 and v2 April 2005 Manufacturing Part Number : B8724-90068 E0405 U.S.A. © Copyright 2005 Hewlett-Packard Company.
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HP CIFS Client A.02.01 Announcement 1 HP CIFS Client A.02.01 Announcement NOTE For the latest information on the HP CIFS Client, refer to the HP CIFS product documentation in the Networking and Communications section of the HP documentation website: http://docs.hp.com/ CIFS is the native networking protocol on Microsoft Windows operating systems. The HP CIFS products for HP-UX provide a wide range of integration strategies for HP-UX and Windows.
HP CIFS Client A.02.01 What’s New in Version A.02.01? What’s New in Version A.02.01? The HP CIFS Client A.02.01 is implemented based on a a substantially revised and improved codebase. This release contains the following enhancements and changes: Enhanced Security Features • NTLMv2 Password Encryption This release of HP CIFS Client supports NTLM version 2 (NTLMv2) in addition l to NTLM and Kerberos.
HP CIFS Client A.02.01 What’s New in Version A.02.01? Command options have been changed nominally between HP CIFS Client A.01.* and A.02.*. Refer to the “Command Option Differences Between HP CIFS Client A.01.* and A.02.* ” section in HP CIFS Client A.02.01 Administrator’s Guide for details. • Configuration Parameter Changes New configuration parameters have been introduced in HP CIFS Client A.02.01. Also, some parameters used in versions A.01.* have been renamed or obsoleted in version A.02.01.
HP CIFS Client A.02.01 Features and Fixes in Recent Releases Features and Fixes in Recent Releases The following features and fixes are listed, beginning with the most recent release: For the HP CIFS Client A.01.09.03 This release contains the following: • PAM-NTLM 64-bit libraries This release of the HP CIFS Client provides 64-bit PAM-NTLM libraries. NOTE • The fix for PAM-NTLM 64-bit libraries applies only to HP-UX 11i v2 and later.
HP CIFS Client A.02.01 Features and Fixes in Recent Releases This fix eliminates a problem where the cifslist -U command fails to list user database with over 900 entries. For the HP CIFS Client A.01.09.02 Version A.09.01.02 of the HP CIFS Client is equivalent to version A.01.09.03, except for a rare problem that was fixed in A.09.01.03. Version A.01.09.02 was available only in limited release, before being superseded by A.01.09.03. For the HP CIFS Client A.01.09.
HP CIFS Client A.02.01 Features and Fixes in Recent Releases down, and the configuration parameter mtabName is not null, then the “\” characters that delimit the server and share names of the stale mount would be lost in the output of the mntck function. This fix corrects that problem. For the HP CIFS Client A.01.
HP CIFS Client A.02.01 Features and Fixes in Recent Releases 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.
HP CIFS Client A.02.01 Features and Fixes in Recent Releases — 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.
HP CIFS Client A.02.01 Features and Fixes in Recent Releases This fixes a bug in the parsing of NetBIOS scope. Scope is an old feature of the CIFS protocol and its use is discouraged. • Some Japanese multibyte characters cannot be used The Japanese-language character-map files for ShiftJIS encoding have been modified to include symbols for integers-in-circles in the range [1 - 20], and various mathematical, Katakana and other symbols. 74 character mappings have been added.
HP CIFS Client A.02.01 Features and Fixes in Recent Releases • Duplicate NFS requests filtered by the HP CIFS Client This improves reliability of the NFS interface to the HP CIFS client. • NFS attribute-caching is now configurable This enhancement allows you to turn on NFS attribute caching, which can improve performance of certain operations, such as creating tar(1) archives of large numbers of files residing on mounted CIFS file systems.
HP CIFS Client A.02.01 Features and Fixes in Recent Releases Europe: http://europe-support.external.hp.com/ Troubleshooting Information for PAM-NTLM • If you are having difficulty accessing the password server configured in smb.conf, PAM-NTLM can utilize an lmhosts file on the local system to look up its address. To utilize this functionality, create the file, /etc/opt/samba/lmhosts, containing entries, one per line, in the following format where netbios_name is the password server used by PAM-NTLM.
HP CIFS Client A.02.01 Features and Fixes in Recent Releases 1. Change the value of runAsUser to runAsUser = “root”. runAsUser is in the global settings near the beginning of the file. Changing this value to = ”root” allows the HP CIFS client to create a core file in case of an unexpected abort. 2. Change the value of requestTimeout to 60 seconds (the value is specified in milliseconds, so requestTimeout = 60000). requestTimeout is in the “defaultServer = {...}” section at approximately line 208. 3.
HP CIFS Client A.02.01 Features and Fixes in Recent Releases • Large-File Support The CIFS Client removed previous restriction of four gigabytes. PAM NTLM • Supports Password Expiration Password expiration now works on non-trusted HP-UX systems. Refer to the HP CIFS Client manual for configuration details. • Password change supports try_first_pass and use_first_pass options. PAM NTLM module can be stacked with other PAM modules for password change.
HP CIFS Client A.02.01 Features and Fixes in Recent Releases • 16 PAM Stacking may cause problems when used with password change and expiry because of the password policy differences between the PAM modules being stacked. The users may get their passwords (for different stacked PAM modules) out of sync if the policies mismatch. Refer to the PAM documentation for details on stacking.
HP CIFS Client A.02.01 Known Problems and Workarounds Known Problems and Workarounds For the HP CIFS Client • Byte range lock is not supported Byte range locks over a cifs mount are not supported. Calls to lockf(1) and fcntl(1) over a cifsmount will fail. Support for byte range locks will be added in a future release of the HP CIFS Client.
HP CIFS Client A.02.01 List of Documents Available with Product List of Documents Available with Product The list below contains documentation related to the HP CIFS Client • HP CIFS Client A.02.01 Administrator’s Guide (B8724-90067). • HP CIFS Client A.02.01 Release Notes (B8724-90068, this document). These documents are also available under the HP CIFS section of http://docs.hp.
HP CIFS Client A.02.01 Software Availability in Native Languages Software Availability in Native Languages The CIFS Client is designed to work with a multitude of native languages: most character-sets used in modern languages in Europe, the middle East, the Americas and Asia are supported. The character-set displayed on the CIFS Client console is configured with the parameter clientCharMapFile, which selects any one of the many character mapping files provided with the product.
HP CIFS Client A.02.01 Software Availability in Native Languages unimapCP865.cfg unimapCP866.cfg unimapCP869.cfg unimapCP874.cfg unimapNeXT.cfg unimapJIS.cfg unimapJIS201.cfg unimap-eucJP.
