HP CIFS Client A.02.01 Release Notes, April 2005

HP CIFS Client A.02.01

What’s New in Version A.02.01?

Chapter 14

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. NTLMv2 uses the same challenge-response protocol as NTLM, but

provides more sophisticated encryption algorithms, hence better password protection.

Refer to the conﬁguration parameters ntlmEncryptionVersion and

authenticationMethod in the HP CIFS Client A.02.01 Administrator’s Guide for details.

• Packet Signing

This release supports packet signing. The purpose of CIFS packet signatures is

prevention of man-in-the middle attacks: the client and server are mutually assured of

the other’s identity by requiring a unique signature on each SMB packet.

Refer to HP CIFS Client A.02.01 Administrator’s Guide for a detailed description of the

smbPacketSigning parameter.

Enhanced Name Resolution

• NetBIOS Name Services, WINS and DNS Support

HP CIFS Client A.02.01 supports DNS and the NetBIOS Name Services, including

NetBIOS broadcast, and WINS, a Windows name resolution service similar to DNS. The

conﬁguration parameters lookupTryNetbios, lookupTryDns and nbnsWinsIP are used

to conﬁgure which lookup mechanisms are used. For detailed information, refer to

“NetBIOS Name Services, WINS, DNS, IP Conﬁguration” section in HP CIFS Client

A.02.01 Administrator’s Guide.

New cifsdb Command

This command is used to manage CIFS Client user and mount database entries. It provides

more ﬂexibility than previous methods, in that it allows database entries to be removed even

if inactive. Refer to Chapter 5, “Commandline Utilities” in HP CIFS Client A.02.01

Administrator’s Guide for the detailed information on the cifsdb, cifsmount, and cifslogin

commands.

Other Changes

• Command Option Changes