The CIFS service in OES 11 SP2 has been modified to run on 64-bit SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES) 11 SP3. In addition to bug fixes, OES 11 SP2 provides the following enhancements and changes for CIFS:
The file and folder delete functions for the NSS file system in Novell CIFS were modified to use the POSIX APIs. This change leads to generating three new Vigil NSS auditing events, namely, OPEN, MODIFY, and CLOSE when CIFS protocol is used to delete a file or folder on an NSS file system. These are generated in addition to the DELETE event.
The CIFS service now provides the capability to monitor open files and CIFS connections.
You can monitor the CIFS service using the newly added command line options in the novcifs utility or the Manage CIFS Services option in NRM. For more information, see CIFS Monitoring and Management
in the OES 11 SP2: Novell CIFS for Linux Administration Guide.
The novcifs long option for active connection count has been changed in OES11 SP2 from -C | --conn-count to -C | --Conn.
With the new command options introduced in novcifs, administrators can choose to export all mounted volumes as shares or export only the required volumes as shares.
novcifs --list-servers
Displays the NetBIOS name of physical and virtual CIFS servers.
novcifs --share-vols-default=SERVER_NAME --value=yes|no
Enables or disables all volumes being exported as shares by default.
For more information, see Viewing the NetBIOS Names of Servers and Changing the Behavior of Exporting Volumes by Default
under novcifs(8) in the OES 11 SP2: Novell CIFS for Linux Administration Guide.
The Novell CIFS server now implements the pass-through information levels capability. This is a configurable option and is turned off by default. It can be enabled or disabled using the novcifs --info-level-passthru=yes|no command.
Pass-through Information Levels are used to set or to query file or folder information on the server. These Information Levels allow SMB clients to directly query Information Levels that are native to the underlying object store or file system.
User-level quota is not supported if this option is disabled.
For more information, see “Enabling or Disabling the Pass-through Information Levels Capability” under novcifs(8) in the OES 11 SP2: Novell CIFS for Linux Administration Guide.
The CIFS Service now supports file operations using the short file name format to accommodate applications that require file names to be in the 8.3 name format, for example, ABPXPS~1.PPT.