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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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.

ip_address <one or more tabs or spaces> netbios_name

• If you are going to remove the PAM-NTLM ﬁleset (or the entire HP CIFS Client) from

your system, ensure that all references to the libpam_ntlm.1 library have been removed

from /etc/pam.conf. Your system can become inaccessible if PAM-NTLM is conﬁgured in

/etc/pam.conf but the PAM-NTLM libraries are removed from the system.

• Use caution when editing /etc/pam.conf. You should have a good understanding of the

PAM framework before modifying this ﬁle. A misconﬁgured /etc/pam.conf can make the

system inaccessible or cause a serious security breach, such as allowing root access to

anyone, without a password. See the reference to pam.conf in section 4 of the HP-UX

manpages and in the PAM-NTLM Conﬁguration section in Installing and Administering

the HP CIFS Client.

Recommended Conﬁguration Values

HP recommends changing the value of the following three conﬁguration parameters to their

new default values:

• runAsUser

• requestTimeout

• nfsAttributeCaching (you will need to add this one)

You can either compare the new default ﬁle, /etc/opt/cifsclient.cfg.default, to your existing

cifsclient.cfg, or make the modiﬁcations manually. Leave the cifsclient.cfg.default ﬁle

unchanged and use it as a reference.

NOTE If you have not customized your conﬁguration ﬁle in any way, you can simply

copy cifsclient.cfg.default over your existing cifsclient.cfg.

Use the following instructions to change to the new conﬁguration parameters: