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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This ﬁx eliminates a cause of a rare problem wherein a CIFS mount can become

inaccessible under certain conditions.

• cifsclientd core due to server protocol error

This ﬁx eliminates an abort caused by a third-party CIFS server which transmits an SMB

negotiate response packet with an incorrect databyte count. The ﬁx also correctly

determines the value that should have been transmitted by the server.

• Enhancements to PAM NTLM

PAM NTLM now supports the ignore option, as well as per-user conﬁguration within the

pam_user.conf(4) and pam_updbe(5) framework. Please refer to these manpages for

explanations and examples of usage.

• Add support for new infolevel for FIND_FIRST and FIND_NEXT SMBs

This enhancement improves interoperability with third-party CIFS Servers that do not

support older SMB infolevels.

• Directory size displayed by “ls -l” is now conﬁgurable

Many CIFS ﬁle servers, including all versions of Windows, that do not use the CIFS UNIX

Extensions, have no notion of UNIX directory size. When a long listing of such a

ﬁlesystem is requested (“ls -l”), the CIFS Client can display only a dummy value for

directory size, because it represents an entity that does not exist on the remote ﬁle

system. Previously, the displayed value was hard-coded. With this release, it can be

conﬁgured. Any positive integer up to the default 131072 (128*1024 ) can be speciﬁed.

• New option for representation of mounted CIFS ﬁlesystems

In previous releases, the representation of mounted CIFS ﬁlesystems in the output of

mount(1M) and bdf(1) followed a proprietary form. In this release, the standard UNIX

representation of a mounted ﬁlesystem (server:/share) can be displayed by setting the

conﬁguration parameter, mtabName, to the null string:

mtabName = “ “

• -A option to cifslist no longer needed

cifslist without options is now equivalent to cifslist -A. Help is still available with

cifslist -h.

• Enhancements to cifsclient control script

— The cifsclient shutdown message now displays a list of CIFS ﬁlesystems that are

unmounted, or a message stating there were none to unmount. Extraneous notes in

the startup and shutdown messages have been removed.