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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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.01.09

• Kerberos Authentication

This release provides Kerberos authentication within the cifslogin and cifsmount

commands, and provides a method for automatic CIFS logins by integrating CIFS

authentication with programs that

utilize the system Kerberos cache, such as PAM KERBEROS and kinit(1).

• ONC AutoFS 2.3 Support

With this release , ONC AutoFS version 2.3 can automatically perform direct and indirect

mounts of CIFS ﬁlesystems.

NOTE ONC AutoFS 2.3 Support applies to HP-UX 11i v1 and v 2. If you have the

HP-UX 11i v1 system, you must install the ONC software package,

Enhanced AutoFS, available at http://software.hp.com to enable the

AutoFS 2.3 support.

• Reduce number of packets required to do long directory listing

This enhancement improves performance of the “ls -l” command on mounted CIFS

ﬁlesystems.

• Fix for duplicate /etc/mnttab entries

This ﬁx eliminates a problem where, in certain instances, duplicate entries for

CIFS-mounted ﬁlesystems can be created in /etc/mnttab. Duplicate entries no longer

occur in the output of mount(1M).

• Eliminate NFS RPC timeout warnings on slow SMB responses

This ﬁx eliminates NFS warnings that can occur if a CIFS network request (an SMB) is

not completed before the NFS request timeout occurs.

NOTE The ﬁx for eliminating NFS RPC timeout warnings applies only to HP-UX

11i v2.

• Resolve defect of CIFS mounts becoming unuseable