HP 800 CIFS/9000 Client Release Note, June 2002 - Page 7

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 that customers upgrade to version A.01.07 of the CIFS/9000 Client if they will be connecting to servers that support the v2.1 specification. These servers include CIFS/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 CIFS/9000 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 CIFS/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 been increased from 20 seconds to 60 seconds. For slow networks, or environments with slow servers or links, this helps prevent the CIFS/9000 client from entering an unstable state that can result when a connection is dropped due to an unanswered SMB request. Chapter 1 7