HP CIFS Client A.02.01 Release Notes, April 2005

HP CIFS Client A.02.01
Features and Fixes in Recent Releases
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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.
• Latest revision of CIFS Unix Extensions, v2.1
The Hewlett-Packard-authored CIFS Unix Extensions enable standard Unix file system
semantics, such as symbolic links, file ownership and permissions to be implemented
within the CIFS protocol. The latest revision of the specification, developed in
collaboration with the Samba open-source project, provides greater inter operability
through a new model for handling file sizes across platforms.
It is highly recommended that customers upgrade to version A.01.07 of the HP CIFS
Client if they will be connecting to servers that support the v2.1 specification. These
servers include HP CIFS Servers, version A.01.07 and Samba Servers, version 2.2.3. The
implementation of the v2.1 specification, in version A.01.07 of the HP CIFS Client, is
backwards compatible with previous implementations of the specification in versions
A.01.07, and earlier, of the HP CIFS Server.
• ASCII decode of hexadecimal NetBIOS traces
The CIFS Client “netbiosTrace” log level option now also displays the ASCII equivalent of
the default hexadecimal byte-stream. Users are reminded that log levels should be left at
their default settings unless they are required for troubleshooting since increased log
levels impede performance.
• A change has been implemented in the caching of file attributes that improves
synchronization of directory listings on the client with actual file attributes on the server.
• The section on configuring the PAM-NTLM module in the Installing and Administering
the HP CIFS Client manual contains new and updated information regarding the use of
password servers and WINS servers. HP suggests incorporating the wins server
parameter into your existing smb.conf file as shown in the new version of smb.conf.default.
These files are located in /etc/opt/cifsclient/pam.
• Default value increased for SMB time-outs
The default configured value for requestTimeout has been increased from 20 seconds to 60
seconds. For slow networks, or environments with slow servers or links, this helps prevent
the HP CIFS client from entering an unstable state that can result when a connection is
dropped due to an unanswered SMB request.