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: November 26, 1997 Release type: Production Software version: 4.20 File name: CDE_420.BIN File size: 2,172,288 bytes Last preceding release: 4.13 --------------------------------------------------------------------- Added features in version 4.20: =============================== 1. SMB User-level access control Windows NT and OS/2 domain security has been implemented. The StorPoint can now authenticate users against a domain controller. This allows security to be configured using group membership and individual user trustee assignments. For pre-4.20 SMB users: When you upgrade the unit from a version prior to 4.20 to version 4.20 or higher, the StorPoint will change from operating in shareLevel security mode to userLevel. If you want to keep your StorPoint working as before, you have to change securityMode back to shareLevel. We decided to have userLevel security mode as default since that will be the preferred method of handling security for the majority of all sites using the SMB protocol. 2. SMB encrypted passwords Password encryption has been implemented. This allows passwords that are sent by the client to the StorPoint when connecting to a share to be encrypted instead of being sent as plain text. This also fixes a problem with Windows NT 4.0 service pack 3, which started to refuse login to servers that did not support password encryption. This could be fixed by modifying the registry. This registry fix is no longer needed to log in to the StorPoint. 3. NetWare/IP support The StorPoint now supports the NetWare/IP protocol. NetWare/IP uses IPX on top of UDP and IP. The native support for NetWare/IP enables the StorPoint to operate in pure NetWare/IP networks. In mixed environments it allows NWIP clients to connect directly to the StorPoint instead of going through a IPX/NWIP router. 4. Increase number of NetWare users The StorPoint now supports 1000 users to be mapped to the system at the same time. This requires that the StorPoint is equipped with 32 MB RAM memory. 5. HTTP Security HTTP security has been implemented. This allows individual CD-ROM:s to be protected by a password. Also, the entire CD folder can be protected, which protects all CD-ROM:s from being accessed. The HTTP password in the config.ini file is used for configuration and also works as a system-wide password for access to all CD-ROM:s. 6. DNS Support Support for DNS (Domain Name System) has been implemented. This allows the use of domain names in some parameters that previously required an IP address to be specified. 7. Decreased startup time with CD-ROM changers (jukeboxes) System startup time has decreased tremendously for systems that had several CD-ROM changers installed. All CD-ROM:s are now mounted in parallel, instead of sequentially. This reduces startup time by several minutes (For DUAL-SCSI units with 14 7-bay changers). 8. NTP Time Synchronization NTP (Network Time Protocol) support has been added. This allows the StorPoint to obtain the current time-of-day using the NTP protocol from an NTP server. NTP is a common time synchronization protocol in TCP/IP environments, including the Internet. 9. Individual exportation of NetWare CD volumes. All CD-ROM:s are now available as NetWare volumes (show up next to the SYS volume). This feature can be turned off using the ShowAllVolumes parameter. Warning: Please note that as default, all CD-ROM:s will be exported to the root level. In bindery mode this will make CD-ROM:s previously protected by access right settings on the CD folder accessible to all users unless access rights to all individual CD-ROM:s are set. 10. Eject function CD-ROM:s can now be ejected remotely using the volumes files or using the web browser. Setting the parameter Eject to yes will immediately eject the CD-ROM when the changes are saved. This feature will also eject CD-ROM:s that are inserted into a locked drive. 11. Report type of CD-ROM file system in volume files The type of file system the currently inserted CD-ROM uses is now displayed in the volume file of the CD-ROM. It is also displayed in the SCSI idlun files. 12. NetWare NDS rights stored in file As an alternative to storing NetWare access rights in the NDS tree (which requires supervisor rights to the root-level of the NDS tree when doing the first installation of a StorPoint in the tree), access rights can now be stored in a file residing on a Novell server. 13. HTTP Mime types A lot of new MIME types have been added. 14. Support for long file names in HTTP It is now possible to read files and view directories with long filenames when browsing CD-ROM:s using HTTP. Corrected problems in version 4.20: =================================== 15. SCSI read error In some circumstances, the StorPoint failed to compensate for the size of the CD-ROM session and read outside the written area. This read request failed and 0 bytes were returned. This bugfix fixes a lot of reported problems that affects specific CD-ROM:s. The problem for complicated by the fact the it also depended on the protocol being used and the amount of installed cache memory. 16. Novell Client 32 reconnect problem When trying to reconnect to the StorPoint after losing communication, Client 32 popped up a requester 'Client 32 is trying to reconnect to server XXXX...' and was never able to reconnect. This problem has been corrected. As a bonus effect, file scan performance has been improved by several hundred percent when scanning large directories. 17. Toshiba SCSI drives. As a fix for the Toshiba 12X and 16X drives, we allow the disconnect/ reselect feature to be turned off. 18. Lock Eject not working when the server was rebooted It is now working again. 19. Allow illegal characters in ISO names Some CD-ROM:s had illegal characters in their volume names (according to the ISO9660 specification) and showed up with auto-generated volume names instead. The StorPoint now accepts additional characters to provide better flexibility. 20. NDS installation problem: Tree not found This was caused by a bug in the RIP protocol and has been corrected. 21. SCSI alias and multiple CD-ROM:s with same name After reboot only the last (highest SCSI ID) CD-ROM showed up. This problem has been corrected and all CD-ROM:s now show up. 22. NetWare bindery database performance problem When located in extremely large NetWare IPX networks there was a performance problem in the bindery database that effectively made the StorPoint very slow. The bindery database has been rewritten and performance has been improved by 1500 percent (15 _times_ as fast). 23. BootP and DHCP requests BootP and DHCP requests are now sent with source IP address set to 0.0.0.0 as specified by the RFC:s. 24. NFS access control NFS access rights could not be assigned to root (uid 0). The problem has been corrected. 25. NetWare NOT_LOGGED_IN connections Connections that have not logged in are now automatically cleared after five minutes. This means that valuable memory resources are not occupied by clients that have never logged in. 26. NetWare file listing with wildcards A problem that caused some files not to appear when using wild cards to scan for files has been corrected. 27. Capital letters in volume file truncates the file The volume file parser has been improved. This problem has been corrected. 28. Maximum number of inserted CD-ROM:s The number of CD-ROM:s that can be inserted at the same time has been raised to 112, which is the maximum number for a DUAL-SCSI StorPoint. 29. Browsing long filenames using Web pages. It is now possible to read files and view directories with long filenames when browsing the file system using HTTP. 30. Some Joliet CD-ROM:s not recognized CD-ROM:s using Joliet extensions were not always recognized correctly. Instead, they showed up as plain ISO9660 CD-ROM:s. 31. Ping using NetBIOS name It is now possibly to ping the CD-ROM server using it's NetBIOS name. 32. CD-ROM:s having same volume name Inserting several CD-ROM:s with the same volume name could cause the StorPoint to crash if SCSI alias was not used. This has been changed so that if a volume name conflict is detected, the last inserted CD-ROM is no longer mounted. Instead, an error message is written to the log file (event log). 33. Speed indication in StorPoint CD/T 100 The speed indication in the statistics page sometimes displayed the incorrect network speed. Even if the StorPoint was running at 100Mbps, the statistics page would show 10Mbps. This has been corrected. 34. Interoperability problems with Bay Network hubs (100Mbps) The 100Mbps StorPoint sometimes had problems negotiating the highest common speed (100Mbps) with Bay Network hubs (mainly older models). The problem has been corrected. 35. Memory expansion in StorPoint CD/T 100 A problem with memory expansion on StorPoint CD/T 100 has been corrected. StorPoint CD/T 100 now supports the same memory configurations as the other StorPoint versions. 36. SNMP MIB compilation errors and missing parameters The SNMP MIB contained syntax errors that made it impossible to compile. The syntax has been corrected. Also, the MIB has been synchronized with the config.ini file and both now contain the same parameters. Best regards AXIS COMMUNICATIONS AB