CIFS/9000 Client Release Note Version A.01.08
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1. conversion to DOS codepage 437 Latin US character set conversion to DOS codepage 737 Greek character set conversion to DOS codepage 775 Baltic Rim character set conversion to DOS codepage 850 DOS Latin 1 character set Chapter 1 unimapCP852 cfg unimapCP855 cfg unimapCP857 cfg unimapCP860 cfg unimapCP861 cfg unimapCP862 cfg unimapCP863 cfg unimapCP864 cfg unimapCP865 cfg unimapCP866 cfg unimapCP869 cfg unimapCP874 cfg unimapNeXT cfg unimapJIS cfg unimapJIS201 cfg unimap eucJP cfg unimapShiftJIS cfg unimapShiftJIS std cfg Chapter 1 CIFS 9000 Client A 01 08 Software Availability in Native Languages conversion to DOS codepage 852 DOS Latin 2 character set conversion to DOS codepage 855 Cyrillic character set conversion to DOS codepage 857 Turkish character set conversion to DOS codepage 860 Portuguese character set conversion to DOS codepage 861 Icelandic character set conversion to DOS codepage 862 Hebrew character set conversion to DOS codepage 863 CanadaF character set conversion to DOS codepage 864 Arabic character set conversion to DOS codepage 865 Nordic character set conversion to DOS codepage 866 Cyrillic Russian char set conversion to DOS codepage 869 Greek 2 character set conversion to DOS codepage 874 Thai character set conversion to NEXTSTEP character set conversion to JIS208 and JIS212 Kanji char sets 16 bit conversion to JIS201 Kanji2. character set 8 bit conversion to eucJP ms JIS X 0201 and JIS X 0208 Japanese EUC character set conversion to ShiftJIS Kanji character set 8 16 bit conversion to ShiftJIS Kanji character set 8 16 bit This version is straight after the standards but probably not usabl becaus of the backslash mapping See the remarks in unimapShiftJIS cfg for an explanation unimap eucKR cfgconversion to eucKR Korean character set 17 CIFS 9000 Client A 01 08 Software Availability in Native Languages 18 Chapter 1
3. entries in amp c 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 amp c rclog The message will resemble the following Mount file systems Output from sbin rcl d S100localmount start mountall cannot mount server share mountall diagnostics from mount ipeclient error connecting to daemon 239 Connection refused ipeclient CIFS Client is down Chapter 1 Chapter 1 CIFS 9000 Client A 01 08 Features and Fixes in Recent Releases 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 Europe http europe support external hp com Troubleshooting Information for PAM NTLM If you are having difficulty accessing the password server configured in smb conf PAM NTLM can utilize an Imhosts file on the local system to look up its address To utilize this functionality create the file amp c opt samba Imhosts containing entries one per line in the following format where netbios_nameis the password server used by PAM NTLM ip_address lt oneor more tabs or spaces gt netbios_name If you are going to remove the PAM NTLM fileset or the entire CIFS 9000 Client from your system ensure that
4. returns zero for success and the syslog file var adm syslog syslog 10g 14 Chapter 1 Chapter 1 CIFS 9000 Client A 01 08 List of Documents Available with Product List of Documents Available with Product The list below contains documentation related to the CIF S 9000 Client e Installing and Administering the CIF S 9000 Client B8724 90022 e CIFS 9000 Client Re ease Note B8724 90023 this document These documents are also available under the CIF S 9000 section of http docs hp com 15 CIFS 9000 Client A 01 08 Software Availability in Native Languages unimap8859 1 unimap8859 2 unimap8859 3 unimap8859 4 unimap8859 5 unimap8859 6 unimap8859 7 unimap8859 8 unimap8859 9 unimap8859 15 cfg unimapBig5 c unimapCP437 unimapCP737 unimapCP775 unimapCP850 16 cfg cfg cfg cfg cfg cfg cfg cfg Jig fg cfg cfg CEG cfg Software Availability in Native Languages The CIFS Client is designed to work with a multitude of native languages most character sets used in modern languages in Europe the middle East the Americas and Asia are supported The character set displayed on the CIFS Client console is configured with the parameter clientCharMapFile which selects any one of the many character mapping files provided with the product Character translations for communications with CIF S Servers can be done either in Unicode or through the configuration parameter serverCharMapFile whic
5. CIF S 9000 Client Release Note Version A 01 08 ra Manufacturing Part Number B8724 90023 ARO902 U S A Copyright 2002 Hewlett Packard Company Legal Notices The information in this document is subject to change without notice Hewlett Packard makes no warranty of any kind with regard to this manual including but not limited to the implied warranties of merchantability and fitness for a particular purpose Hewlett Packard shall not be held liable for errors contained herein or direct indirect special incidental or consequential damages in connection with the furnishing performance or use of this material Warranty A copy of the specific warranty terms applicable to your Hewlett Packard product and replacement parts can be obtained from your local Sales and Service Office Restricted Rights Legend Use duplication or disclosure by the U S Government is subject to restrictions as set forth in subparagraph c 1 ii of the Rights in Technical Data and Computer Software clause at DFARS 252 227 7013 for DOD agencies and subparagraphs c 1 and c 2 of the Commercial Computer Software Restricted Rights clause at FAR 52 227 19 for other agencies HEWLETT PACKARD COMPANY 3000 Hanover Street Palo Alto California 94304 U S A Use of this manual and flexible disk s or tape cartridge s supplied for this pack is restricted to this product only Copyright Notices Copyright copyright 1983 2002 Hewlett Packard
6. Company all rights reserved Reproduction adaptation or translation of this document without prior written permission is prohibited except as allowed under the copyright laws Trademark Notices UNIX is a registered trademark of The Open Group NOTE Chapter 1 CIFS 9000 Client A 01 08 Announcement CIF S 9000 Client A 01 08 Announcement For the latest information on the CIFS 9000 Client refer to the CIF S 9000 product documentation in the Networking and Communications section of the HP documentation website http docs hp com With CIF S 9000 H ewlett Packard provides a Common Internet File System CIF S implementation on HP UX 11 i CIFS is the Microsoft protocol for remote file access It is built into all recent Windows operating systems including Windows 95 98 NT and 2000 By providing both server and client CIF S 9000 provides file and print inter operability for environments with any mix of UNIX and Windows platforms The CIF S 9000 Server allows Microsoft and CIF S 9000 Clients to access the server s file system The CI FS 9000 Client can mount file systems made shareable by Windows CI F S 9000 servers or ASU 9000 CIFS 9000 also provides PAM NTLM which is used to authenticate users logging into HP UX system against Windows NT servers CIFS 9000 Client A 01 08 About This Document About This Document The technical contents of this document are identical to that of the 1A1122 J une 2002 releas
7. all references tothe libpam_nt1m 1 library have been removed from etc pam conf Your system can become inaccessible if PAM NTLM is configured in etc pam conf but the PAM NTLM libraries are removed from the system Use caution when editing etc pam conf You should have a good understanding of the PAM framework before modifying this file A misconfigured etc pam conf can make the system inaccessible or cause a serious security breach such as allowing root access to anyone without a password See the reference to pam conf in section 4 of the HP UX manpages and in the PAM NTLM Configuration section in Installing and Administering the CIF S 9000 Client Recommended Configuration Values HP recommends changing the value of the following three configuration parameters to their new default values runAsUser request Timeout nfsAttributeCaching you will need to add this one CIFS 9000 Client A 01 08 Features and Fixes in Recent Releases NOTE 10 You can either compare the new default file amp opt cifsclient cfg default to your existing cifsclient cfg or make the modifications manually Leave the cifsclient cfg default file unchanged and use it as a reference If you have not customized your configuration file in any way you can simply copy cifsclient cfg default over your existing cifsclient cfg Use the following instructions to change to the new configuration parameters 1 Change the value of runAsU
8. at customers upgrade to version A 01 07 of the CIF S 9000 Client if they will be connecting to servers that support the v2 1 specification These servers include CIF S 9000 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 CIFS 9000 Client is backwards compatible with previous implementations of the specification in versions A 01 07 and earlier of the CIF S 9000 Server ASCII decode of hexadecimal NetBIOS traces TheCIFS Client netbiosT race 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 CIF S 9000 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 be
9. e As of this rdease the A 01 08 version of the CIFS Client supports the following versions of HP UX e HP UX 11 0 e HP UX 1li e HP UX 11 22 Chapter 1 Chapter 1 CIFS 9000 Client A 01 08 What s New in Version A 01 08 What s New in Version A 01 08 This release contains the following enhancements e Error reporting by PAM NTLM Error reporting by the PAM NTLM module has been enhanced such that if PAM NTLM cannot connect to the password server an appropriate message is written to syslog CIFS 9000 Client A 01 08 Features and Fixes in Recent Releases Features and Fixes in Recent Releases The following features and fixes are listed beginning with the most recent PAM NTLM can fail to handle Unix password expiration A fix has been implemented for a problem wherein a user with an expired Unix password can login to the host system without being forced to change their expired password This occurs only if the recommended stacked configuration of 1ibpam_ntlm 1 and libpam_unix 1 is used and the user is not authenticated by the NTLM server With this fix PAM UNIX forces the user to change their expired Unix password as expected Disconnected user sessions cannot reconnect This enhancement enables user connections that have been terminated by the server to be automatically re established when the user attempts to access the server Logfile truncation at max size does not work This fix enforces the maxim
10. ead the PAM documentation for understanding the use_first_pass and try_first_pass options The administrator has to be fully aware of the results of using these options in password change Due to the differences in password policies among different PAM modules password change may get passwords out of sync for different modules with which these options are used Notes Cautions and Warnings e Itis assumed that the administrator is familiar with the general PAM framework The administrator has to be fully aware of the consequences of modifying the PAM configuration file e PAM Stacking may cause problems when used with password change and expiry because of the password policy differences between the PAM modules being stacked The users may get their passwords for different stacked PAM modules out of sync if the policies mismatch Refer to the PAM documentation for details on stacking Chapter 1 Chapter 1 CIFS 9000 Client A 01 08 Known Problems and Workarounds Known Problems and Workarounds For the CIF S 9000 Client The CIF S 9000 Client with ASU 9000 Servers There is a known infrequent problem between the CI FS 9000 Client and ASU If you find that a connection to an ASU server becomes inaccessible turn off opportunistic locks oplocks for communications with ASU in the CIFS Client configuration file amp q opt cifsclient cifsclient cfg Oplocks can be turned off globally in the defaultServer section by setting reque
11. ed and is supported with the following servers HP CIFS 9000 Server HP Samba HP ASU 9000 Windows NT Windows 2000 See Known Problems and Workarounds below for important additional information about use of ASU Servers Large File Support The CIFS Client removed previous restriction of four gigabytes PAM NTLM Supports Password E xpiration Password expiration now works on non trusted HP UX systems Refer to the CIF S 9000 Client manual for configuration details Password change supports try_first_pass and use_first_pass options PAM NTLM module can be stacked with other PAM modules for password change Refer to Notes Cautions and Warnings in the Additional Background Information section below PAM NTLM now returns correct error codes for Authentication errors PAM NTLM returns correct error codes so that the applications can return appropriate error messages in case of authentication failures 11 CIFS 9000 Client A 01 08 Features and Fixes in Recent Releases NOTE 12 Background Information PAM NTLM provides a centralized authentication service for HP UX and Microsoft Windows NT servers or other UNIX servers running HP CIFS 9000 server HP CIF S 9000 Client product includes the PAM NTLM that integrates HP UX login with any CIFS 9000 server or Windows NT domain controller Consult the user manual Installing and Administering the CIF S 9000 Client for detailed information on PAM NTLM R
12. en increased from 20 seconds to 60 seconds For slow networks or environments with slow servers or links this helps prevent the CIF S 9000 client from entering an unstable state that can result when a connection is dropped due to an unanswered SMB request CIFS 9000 Client A 01 08 Features and Fixes in Recent Releases NOTE e Duplicate NFS requests filtered by the CI F S 9000 Client This improves reliability of the NFS interface to the CIF S 9000 client e 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 e Korean Language support A new character mapping file unimap euckR cfg allows for support of localized Korean HP UX systems with the CI F S 9000 client See the Installing and Administering the CIF S 9000 Client manual for an explanation of how to configure character map files Other Information The following information about the mount all 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
13. h alsois used to select a character mapping file Use of Unicode is turned on and off with the useUnicode parameter More details are provided in the CIFS Client manual as well as in comments in the configuration file itself etc opt cifsclient cifsclient cfg An index which enumerates the character encoding implemented in each map file is located in the file amp opt cifsclient unitables README and is reproduced below In general files that are described as performing DOS codepage or NEXTSTEP conversions are used for communications with servers while files referring to ISO or J IS are used for converting characters to the locale configured on the local HP UX CIFS Client Note that this discussion assumes that the locale for which you want to customize the CIFS Client is available as well for the HP UX desktop Here are the descriptions of the character map files conversion to ISO Western European character set conversion to ISO Eastern European character set conversion to ISO Other Latin Languages character set conversion to ISO Northern European character set conversion to ISO Latin Cyrillic character set conversion to ISO Latin Arabic character set conversion to ISO Latin Greek character set conversion to ISO Latin Hebrew character set conversion to ISO Latin Turkish character set Similar to ISO 8859 1 includes the Euro currency symbol conversion to Big5 Asian character set 16 bit
14. ser to runAsUser root runAsUser is in the global settings near the beginning of the file Changing this value to root allows the CIF S 9000 client to create a core file in case of an unexpected abort 2 Change the value of request Timeout to 60 seconds the value is specified in milliseconds SO requestTimeout 60000 requestTimeout is in the defaultServer Section at approximately line 208 3 Add the following nfsAttributeCaching entry in the defaultServer section nfsAttributeCaching no Adding this value will have no effect if you are not upgrading to the current version of the CIF S 9000 client nfsAttributeCaching can yes or no Benefits and Features See the Installing and Administering the CIF S 9000 Client manual for details on the following features The latest version can be found at http docs hp com e Integration with Unix mount commands The mount 1M and umount 1M commands can now be used for operations on CIFS file systems e Support for I nternationalized Clients A variety of internationalized clients can be supported with the Chapter 1 NOTE Chapter 1 CIFS 9000 Client A 01 08 Features and Fixes in Recent Releases CIF S 9000 Client through the use of either Unicode or any of several character mapping files provided in a amp c opt cifsclient unitables Support for Advanced Server for Unix ASU and Windows 2000 The CIF S 9000 Client has been test
15. stOplock no A preferred method is to turn off oplocks only for ASU servers To do so first add the following lines if they are not already present to the serverClasses section Then toturn off oplocks for only this class of server set requestOplock no Match ASU os x LanManager Advanced Server config disableSmbs these are additional to other config setattrTrans2SetFile don t use trans2 setfileinfo setattrTrans2SetPath don t use trans2 setpathinf i requestOplock no Removing a Directory and its Contents Removing a directory and its contents in one step using the command rm rf lt directory gt may fail on directories located on a cifsmount If the directory contains 30 or more files only part of the directory contents will be removed and the directory itself will remain since its contents have not been removed A workaround is to remove the directory and its contents in two steps l rm rf lt dir gt Remove directory contents 2 rmdir lt dir gt Remove directory itself 13 CIFS 9000 Client A 01 08 Known Problems and Workarounds For PAM NTLM The passwd 1 program may not return any message Success or Failure in some cases For example if the user tries to change his password when the user cannot change password option is set on the NT server the passwd command does not return a message n such cases check the return value of the passwd command passwd
16. um logfile size of 50 Mbytes If the logfile reaches this size it is saved with prev appended to its name overwriting any other previously saved copy The logfile is then restarted from 0 bytes Incorrect timestamp after DST switch This fix improves the synchronization of file timestamps between CIFS 9000 clients and Windows servers when the time changes between standard and daylight savings time NetBIOS scope broken if scope has embedded period character s This fixes a bug in the parsing of NetBIOS scope Scope is an old feature of the CIF S protocol and its use is discouraged Some J apanese multibyte characters cannot be used TheJ apanese language character map files for Shift IS encoding have been modified to include symbols for integers in circles in the range 1 20 and various mathematical Katakana and other symbols 74 character mappings have been added Latest revision of CIFS Unix Extensions v2 1 Chapter 1 Chapter 1 CIFS 9000 Client A 01 08 Features and Fixes in Recent Releases The Hewlett Packard authored CIFS Unix Extensions enable standard Unix file system semantics such as symbolic links file ownership and permissions to be implemented within the CIFS protocol The latest revision of the specification developed in collaboration with the Samba open source project provides greater inter operability through a new model for handling file sizes across platforms It is highly recommended th
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