NEW SOFTWARE RELEASE ==================== Products involved: AXIS StorPoint CD for Ethernet AXIS StorPoint CD/T for Ethernet AXIS StorPoint CD/T Dual SCSI for Ethernet AXIS StorPoint CD/T 100 for Fast Ethernet AXIS StorPoint CD/T 100 Dual SCSI for Fast Ethernet Release date: December 7, 1998 Release type: Production Software version: 4.27 File name: cde_427.bin File size: 2,173,620 bytes Last preceding release: 4.26 --------------------------------------------------------------------- Added features in version 4.27: =============================== 4.27:1. SMB: New dialect supported The dialect NT LM 0.12 is now supported. This is the same dialect Windows NT Server 4.0 uses. Supporting this dialect fixes problems reading .INF-files from for example the Windows 95 CD-ROM. 4.27:2. SMB: Map drive using DNS name It is now possible to map a drive on the CD-ROM server using NET USE and DNS names (e.g. NET USE ... \\cdserver.acme.com\root). 4.27:3. NetWare: DS.NLM version 5.99 Compatibility with DS.NLM version 5.99 has been verified. There were no compatibility problems found. The CD-ROM Server is now using version 5.99 as default. 4.27:4. NFS: Network Lock Manager (NLM) The Network Lock Manager Protocol version 3 is now supported. This service makes advisory DOS 3.1 file sharing and locking possible. Some clients (i.e. InterDrive 4.0 for Windows 95/NT) uses this protocol in conjunction with NFS 2 by default. This service will also prevent the "No network locking" messages on Solaris clients. 4.27:5 Corrected problems in version 4.27: =================================== 4.27:5. NetWare: Support for new clients from Novell Support for clients up to the following version has been added: Novell Client 3.0 for Windows 95/98 Novell Client 4.50 for Windows NT. 4.27:6. NetWare: VLM client wildcard problem The VLM client could not list files without extensions if a wildcard was used. The problem has been fixed. 4.27:7. NetWare: Incompatibility with Revelation database The revelation database used unsupported commands against the CD-ROM server. When the CD-ROM server reported that these commands were not supported, the Revelation database failed. Support for these commands has been added. 4.27:8. NetWare: Windows 95, Client 32 & Axis Online CD A bug caused a file scan to return an invalid match. This broke the MacroMedia application used on the Axis Online CD. 4.27:9. NetWare: Memory leak When a bad packet (in this case a packet whose size was less than what the IPX header said) was received and discarded, the allocated packet memory was never freed. This resulted in a memory leak. Although this problem almost never occurs in most networks, it resulted in very serious stability problems in networks that has a lot of packets of this type. 4.27:10. NetWare: NDS lockup A lockup problem that could cause a NDS-aware client request to freeze and never return has been fixed. 4.27:11. SMB: Problem displaying international characters from Joliet CD-ROM:s The server had errors in it's translation between the IBM 850 character set and the ISO8859-1 character set. These problems have been fixed and international characters should now be correctly displayed. 4.27:12. SMB: File system type was not reported Windows Explorer reports the file system type for mapped drives when viewing the properties for the drive. The CD-ROM server did not report any file system type. Reporting the file system type is a feature of the NT LM 0.12 dialect. Now that this dialect is supported, the CD-ROM server will report CDFS as file system type. 4.27:13. SMB: Long file names Long file names are truncated for clients that are bound by the 8+3 naming convention. These files sometimes appeared with corrupt names and could not be read. This problem has been corrected. 4.27:14. HTTP: Server crash when listing access rights for CD-ROM:s In extremely rare circumstances, the server could crash when listing the 'CD-ROM Rights' page (under Management). This problem has been corrected. 4.27:15. TCP/IP: Ping and IP address change IP-address changing using ARP and PING is now active for the first half hour after the system has started. This change will make it easier to set the IP address using this method. 4.27:16. TCP/IP: Fixed problem with icmp redirect. Net directed redirects would change the default gateway. Now all redirects are treated as host redirects. 4.27:17. SCSI: Problem reading some discs A problem that affected primarily Multi-Session CD-R:s with many very small sessions has been corrected. 4.27:18. SCSI: Pioneer DVD-ROM drive not found on SCSI ID 0 A small timing problem on the SCSI bus made the drive not show up when configured on SCSI ID 0. 4.27:19. SCSI: Pioneer Changer DRM-624X Disabled read-ahead cache and simultaneous use of multiple LUN:s. This fixes some problems with corrupt files. 4.27:20. File System: Added support for short Joliet names On a Joliet CD-ROM, it's now selectable whether the short or the long file names should be used for a particular Joliet CD-ROM. This fixes some problems with older network clients that don't support long names. This is controlled by a new parameter: UseShortJolietFileNames (yes/no) in the volume files. 4.27:21. Ethernet: Hanging ethernet controller Under some special circumstances, the ethernet controller would stop receiving data. This problem has been fixed. 4.27:22. Ethernet: Memory leak In networks with _very_ little traffic a memory leak appeared. This problem only affected StorPoint CD100. 4.27:23. Ethernet: 100MBit Fixed a problem (for 100 MBit Ethernet products) that made the MAC (hardware layer) echo an incoming packet instead of sending the outgoing packet. 4.27:24. TokenRing: System did not start when not connected to the network The system would not start up if the unit was not connected to the TokenRing network. Added features in version 4.26: =============================== 4.26:1. SMB: Map server using it's IP address It's now possible to map the CD-ROM Server using it's IP address instead of it's NetBIOS name (e.g. MAP \\192.129.119.191\root ). 4.26:2. SCSI: Support for advanced LUN expanders and caching boards Support has been added for the RSSI caching boards emulating a SCSI-3 device, e.g. RS955-37 which can present up to 10 SCSI LUN:s combined from several separate SCSI devices and their LUN:s. The CD-ROM server can now recognize this unit and poll up to 64 LUN:s during the boot sequence. A hidden parameter, MaxLun (in the SCSI group), has been added to facilitate this functionality. Corrected problems in version 4.26: =================================== 4.26:3. TCP/IP: Time to live The Time-To-Live (TTL) for TCP/IP packets were set differently for different protocols. The default TTL has been set to 64 for all protocols. The inconsistency could have caused problems on _very_ large networks, like the Internet or multinational corporate networks. 4.26:4. Ethernet: Compensation for Cisco router bug The Cisco router filled in the 802.2 frame incorrectly and the CD-ROM server discarded some packets. These incorrect packets are now allowed and Cisco routers no longer cause problems. 4.26:5. NetWare: Not_logged_in connections The algorithm for determining which not_logged_in connections that should be thrown out has been modified. The server should no longer keep connections from some special clients. 4.26:6. NetWare, NFS: Wrong path showed up in DOS and some Unix shells When using NetWare and 16-bit applications, like MS-DOS, the path in the prompt occasionally showed a different name for the CD-ROM in the path than what was expected. This could cause applications to stop functioning. This problem did not affect 32-bit applications. 4.26:7. SMB: NBT crash when WINS was not used A instability problem concerning session setup to the CD-ROM server has been fixed. 4.26:8. SMB: Login performance when using User Level authentication The login procedure has been optimized. A typical login took around 4 seconds. This is now reduced to approximately 0.3 seconds. 4.26:9. SMB: System crash when using User Level authentication Several simultaneous login attempts could cause the server to crash when it tried to verify passwords against the domain controller for multiple users at the same time. 4.26:10. SMB: Unable to access server when using User Level authentication Sometimes a Windows NT 4.0 client would not supply a user name when attaching to the CD-ROM server. This made the user validation process fail and the user could not access any directories on the server. 4.26:11. HTTP: The HTTP Wizard was not accessible using MS IE 4.0 A bug in Microsoft Internet Explorer 4.0 made it impossible to access the HTTP Wizard. This bug has been circumvented. 4.26:12. TCP/IP: DHCP would not work with OS/2 Warp The DHCP request was missing the END option. This was required by OS/2 Warp's DHCP server. The END option has been added. Added features in version 4.25: =============================== 4.25:1. Installation Wizards The quick installation page has been replaced by several installation wizards that will guide the administrator through the installation in different environments. In the NetWare wizard the NDS installation is done by browsing the actual tree. This greatly simplifies the NDS installation procedure. 4.25:2. Web administration improved CD-ROM:s can now be ejected and locked easily through the management pages in the web administration. 4.25:3. Common password for entire server The administrator passwords in NetWare, HTTP, FTP, SMB and SNMP has now been replaced with a single password, located in the Server group. Note: The new password will have the default value 'PASS'. Don't forget to change this after the upgrade. 4.25:4 SMB: Workgroup name autodetection The SMB workgroup name 'Domain/Group name' is no longer by default set to WORKGROUP. The new default value is empty, which means that autodetection should be used. During startup, the CD-ROM server now picks the first workgroup name (alphabetically) found on your network. 4.25:5. ISO 9660 compliance level 3 By adding support for ISO compliance level 3, the CD-ROM server can now read CD-ROM:s written using packet-writing technology, an increasingly more popular method. Adaptec DirectCD is one of the programs that use packet-writing. Corrected problems in version 4.25: =================================== 4.25:6. SMB: Using Backup Domain Controllers Previously, the CD-ROM server only used the Primary Domain Controller (PDC) to authenticate users. This caused performance problems during login and in some cases login was not possible (if the PDC was not available). 4.25:7. SMB: DOS LAN Requester The DOS LAN Requester client didn't work with the CD-ROM server. This problem has been corrected. 4.25:8. SMB: DAVE Client version 2 DAVE 2.0 is now supported by the CD-ROM server. 4.25:9. SMB: SCSI alias when using SMB User Level access control The first user connecting to a volume using SCSI alias would get incorrect rights. This problem has been corrected. 4.25:10. SMB: Warning message in event log on NT servers and workstations The following message would be displayed in the event log when connecting to the CD-ROM server: "The time zone bias calculated between XXXXXXXX and the current workstation is too large. The data specifies the number of 100ns units between the workstation and server. Make sure that the time of day on the workstation and server are correct." This problem has been corrected. Make sure that the clock is set correctly though. 4.25:11. SMB: User level group and user names with international characters International characters (in ISO 8859-1 Latin-1 and IBM 850) are now supported in group and user names. 4.25:12. SMB: User level group names and NetBEUI In some cases the group names read from the domain controller at login time were corrupted and this caused problems with access rights. This only affected NetBEUI and the problem has been solved. 4.25:13. SMB: Caching of writeable files The CD-ROM server accidentally granted an oplock to writeable files on the CD-ROM server. This caused the files to be cached on the client. This caused problems with the WinPoint utility. 4.25:14. SMB: Processing CD-ROM mapping in logon scripts A Windows95 client processing a logon script would get an 'access denied' when trying to map the CD-ROM server using 'NET USE' in the script. The problem has been fixed. 4.25:15. SMB: Illegal directory scanning (Fix for Westlaw 'Premise' software) The CD-ROM server crashed when a client scanned for files in a directory when the directory was actually a file. The problem has been fixed. 4.25:16. NetWare: NDS installation problem 1 Schema extension sometimes failed with error code 0xFFFFD60. This problem has been fixed. 4.25:17. NetWare: NDS installation problem 2 After a reinstall the CD-ROM server would sometimes refuse to accept NDS login:s and on Novell File server consoles a message 'Could not authenticate to server xxxxx due to synchronization restrictions'. This problem has been solved. 4.25:18. NetWare: NDS installation problem 3 NDS installation in containers with international characters is now supported. 4.25:19. NetWare: Saving rights to file This feature now supports both DOS and LONG name spaces. The parameter can now be in mixed case (previously only upper case names were accepted). 4.25:20. NetWare: Accessing last LUN on last ID on bus B on Dual SCSI server This crashed the CD-ROM server. The problem has been fixed. 4.25:21. NetWare: not_logged_in connections in statistics file Some inactive connections were not thrown out the way they should. This problem has been corrected. 4.25:22. NetWare: Unable to communicate messages on file server console The message 'Unable to communicate with server xxxxxxx' showed up on the console of Novell 4.11 file servers once every two hours. This didn't actually cause any problems, but was very annoying. This cosmetic bug has been corrected. 4.25:23. NetWare: NetWare/IP not working with Client32 In some cases a Client32 NetWare client refused to connect to the CD-ROM server. This problem has been fixed. 4.25:24. SCSI: Startup problems with Dual SCSI Some configurations would cause the CD-ROM server to freeze during the startup sequence. The problem has been fixed. Best regards Axis Communications AB