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SYMPTOM:
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Anomalies fixed in this patch
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1) NIS Server abend with Norton Antivirus and other Antivirus software has been fixed.
2) Abends related to Unicon have been fixed.
3) Unix Services Handler now has a User configurable password. To configure the password for the Unix Services Handler object, a new command line option
has been added.
LOAD UNICON /P
Note : Customers having multiple installations of UXP, need to run UNICON /P on only one server (if the NetDB context of operation is same for all installations). The changes get effected on all installations.
All installations of UXP should have been upgraded to UXP 205 for this.For eg,if your site has 4 UXP installations, one of them operating at .O=NFS.OU=NOVELL and the others operating at .O=UXP.OU=NOVELL, then, LOAD UNICON /P has to be run twice - once for each context of operation.
4) Enhancement has been done to LPR GWY to accept either banner name or filename for printing in banner.
A new NWPARAMS parameter has been introduced to meet the requirements.
[PRINT_ADMIN]
JOB_BANNER_NAME ON/OFF
Default is ON. It takes banner name for banner .
If OFF, it takes the filename for banner .
5) Print jobs were getting deleted (LPRGWY) when certain printers returned incomprehensible error codes. This has been fixed now.
6) When there is a large installation of printers and most of them are down,LPRGWY was taking a long time to initialize them. Users can now configure the time out value for initalization of printers.
[PRINT_ADMIN]
LPR_INITIAL_CONNECT_TIME <values between 5 and 30 Secs> By default, this value is 5 Secs.
7) Double free abends in PLPD.NLM have been fixed.
8) Automatic Initialization of NIS Maps: Customers who want automatic initialization of maps or who would want maps to be created from /etc/<files> of unix, can copy the files to SYS:\ETC\DBSOURCE\NIS and then run the
following.
A new command line option for UNICON has been introduced LOAD UNICON /N <Domain Name> <Server name> <user name> <Password>
The files are taken from SYS:ETC\DBSOURCE\NIS directory for updating the maps.The last 3 parameters are for unicon to login to do the job.
The domain name parameter is for the domain whose map needs to be recreated from the files, i.e it is the domain for which the NetWare server is the master NIS server.This command line option will achieve the following under Unicon Menu
Manage Services -> NIS - > Initialize Master NIS Maps
In some conditions this option this automatic initialization from console prompt may not work. Under this condition the customers are advised to initialize NIS maps manually by going into unicon.
9) The following problems have been fixed for FTP Server
i) If a 'pwd' command is entered working directory is shown as one directory above the real working directory.
ii) If NIS is not running and customer is using NFS name space the FTP client would take a long time to login. Message appears on the Pkernel screen
directing administrators attention to the fact that NIS may not be initialized.
iii) Quote site cx does not work the first time
iv) FTP does not adhere to the Maximum Concurrent Connections. If the number of maximum concurrent connections were 5, FTP server would allow only 3 ftp
logins.This has been fixed now.
v) If a Message.txt file exists in a directory it will cause the client to hang.
vi) Users can do ftp login without specifying full NDS name. For eg, if user.tom.xyz.abc needs to login using FTP, previously the user needed to type
user .tom.xyz.abc
Now, the users can type user tom(Only their name).
For this to be in effect, new NWPARAMS entries have been introduced under
[FTP_SERVER] section.
NDS_CONTEXTCNT1 8
NDS_CONTEXT1 O=abc;OU=xyz.O=abc;....
NDS_CONTEXTCNT2 8
NDS_CONTEXT2 OU=pqr.OU=abc.O=z;....
Up to NDS_CONTEXTCNT4 is allowed
The sum of all the NDS_CONTEXTCNT<X> should be less than or equal to 32. And the length of the string specified in the NDS_CONTEXT<X> should be less
than 512.
Note : There should be no preceeding dot '.' for any context. i.e, the first dot should not be present.
If the user belongs to any of these contexts, he can just login with his name instead of typing in the full name.
vii) Users can choose the type of DELIMITERS -
Allow customers to choose how line delimiters are interpreted, independant of the default namespace of operation.
a) A new "quote site" command is introduced. This is applicable only if the default name space has been set to NFS for operation of FTP.
quote site nfsfile - allows to choose the unix delimiter
during ascii file transfer.
quote site dosfile - allows to choose the dos delimiter
during ascii file transfer.
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Note : Whenever a client types "quote site nfs" then the current transfer mode is RESET to default mode that is NFSFILE( unix delimiter ).
It happens in both the cases...
1> when it is already in nfs names space.
2> when names is switched from dos to nfs.
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b> A new NWPARAMS is introduced to set the ASCII file transfer mode.
Parameter Value
NFSNS_ASCII_TRN_MODE NFSFILE / DOSFILE
This parameter will have effect only in NFS namespace. This parameter allows the user to set the ASCII file transfer mode to NFSFILE or DOSFILE.
Which means during the file transfer, the delimiter are interpreted as Unix delimiter or Dos delimiter respectively.
i) Dos delimiter in NFS namespace allows the Windows'95/NT client to use the long file name support as well as data are not corrupted during file transfer.
ii) Unix delimiter in NFS namespace will same implication as befor for Unix/solaris/Linux clients.
iii) Setting of delimiters(ie., file transfer mode) to nfs/dos file will not have any effect on dos namespace.
It is preferable to set this param as DOSFILE, only when there is Window95/NT client or Netscape Browser client.
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Note: If this NWPARAM is not mentioned then Delimiter Type is initialized to default NFS namespace type.(ie., Unix Delimiter - NFSFILE )
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c> Now,"quote stat" command is updated to display this additional information regarding the Delimiter type as
Delimiter Type : DOSFILE/NFSFILE
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Anomalies fixed Prior to UXP 205 Patch (UXP 2.12 product only)
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Nested subdirectories of any length can be accessed now from NFS name space in an FTP session.
For a user whose password has expired, and only grace logins are left, FTP-Server would simply give the message "Incorrect password" and deny login
for the user, thereby wasting a precious Grace login for the user.NFS203 patch fixes this by allowing the ftp client to login with a clear indication that it is a grace login, and that he needs to change his password from a NetWare
client.
FTP user with a mixed-case home-directory would not be able to login as he would not be able to CD into the home-directory, this bug has been fixed.
Range of ports that a passive mode FTP-server should use can now be specified from NWPARAMS file under the FTPSERV section. This feature can be turned off
if not required. However, this feature is currently *not* configurable from unicon.
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