HP CIFS Client A.02.01 Release Notes, April 2005

HP CIFS Client A.02.01
Features and Fixes in Recent Releases
Chapter 112
• 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 mounted CIFS file systems. The default setting is nfsAttributeCaching
= no, which maintains the same behavior as in previous releases.
• Korean Language support
A new character mapping file, unimap-eucKR.cfg, allows for support of localized Korean
HP-UX systems with the HP CIFS client. See the Installing and Administering the HP
CIFS Client manual for an explanation of how to configure character-map files.
Other Information
NOTE The following information about the mountall(1M) command applies only to
HP-UX versions B.11.00 and B.11.11.
A new version of the HP-UX mountall(1M) command has been issued as patch PHCO_24777.
This patch fixes two problems that can occur in any release of the CIFS Client. The problems
arise when there are CIFS entries in /etc/fstab and involve extraneous error or warning
messages.
In one case, if the CIFS Client is configured to start at boot, a misleading error is placed in
/etc/rc.log. The message will resemble the following:
Mount file systems
Output from “/sbin/rc1.d/S100localmount start”:
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mountall: cannot mount server:/share
mountall: diagnostics from mount
ipcclient: error connecting to daemon: [239] Connection refused
ipcclient: CIFS Client is down.
In another case, swinstall, when used to install any software, will stop or exit, forcing the
user to set mount_all_filesystems=false.
The patch is available at either of these web sites:
Americas and Asia-Pacific: http://us-support.external.hp.com/