HP CIFS Client A.02.01 Release Notes, April 2005

HP CIFS Client A.02.01
Known Problems and Workarounds
Chapter 1 17
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.
• Removing a Directory and its Contents
Removing a directory and its contents in one step using the command, rm -rf
<directory>, may fail on directories located on a cifsmount. If the directory contains ~30
or more files, only part of the directory contents will be removed and the directory itself
will remain since its contents have not been removed
A workaround is to remove the directory and its contents in two steps
1. rm -rf <dir>/* # Remove directory contents.
2. rmdir <dir> # Remove directory itself.
For PAM NTLM
The passwd(1) program may not return any message (Success or Failure) in some cases. For
example, if the user tries to change his password when the “user cannot change password”
option is set on the NT server, the passwd command does not return a message. In such cases,
check the return value of the passwd command (passwd returns zero for success) and the
syslog file (/var/adm/syslog/syslog.log).