HP CIFS Client A.01.09.01 Release Notes, January 2004

HP CIFS Client A.01.09.01
Features and Fixes in Recent Releases
Chapter 114
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.
• Duplicate NFS requests filtered by the HP CIFS Client
This improves reliability of the NFS interface to the HP CIFS client.
• NFS attribute-caching is now configurable
This enhancement allows you to turn on NFS attribute caching,
which can improve performance of certain operations, such as
creating tar(1) archives of large numbers of files residing on