Conference ranger::pwosf

    V6.1A Kit is now availabe from the ftp area on racerx.lkg.dec.com.
    Access to the kits is through anonymous ftp.
    
    The following describes problems fixed in PATHWORKS V6.1a for DIGITAL UNIX
    since V6.1.
    
    3.1 PATHWORKS Advanced Server Software
    
    3.1.1 Oplock Default Configuration Parameter
    
    The LAN Manager configuration parameter 'useoplock' is set to no as a
    default.
    
    3.1.2 Ustructs Lock Protection and oplock Race Conditions
    
    Added protection against various race conditions which caused dropped
    sessions, hung sessions, or sharing violation errors.
    
    3.1.3 WordPad on Windows 95 Was Not Able to Save to a Share
    
    The proper error code is now returned when the file exists.
    
    3.1.4 Microsoft Excel for Windows 95 Would Not Create a File on a
          Share
    
    The user is granted the access she/he requested for create.
    
    3.1.5 Microsoft Word and Excel for Windows 95 Failed Saving a File on
          a Share
    
    The SMBwrite code now adhears to the specification for extending
    a file when 0 bytes are written beyond the end of file.
    
    3.1.6 File Truncation
    
    When a file is reopened and a smaller amount of data was written out
    it is truncated.
    
    3.1.7 Browser with DECnet
    
    A net logon from a client on a server running DECnet and TCP but not
    NETBEUI now works.  After the first DECnet login, net login over TCP
    now succeeds.
    
    3.1.8 NETBEUI Transport Reliability
    
    Corrected panic in NETBEUI after performance drop.  Fixed a
    message-parsing loop to accommodate an unexpectedly small message.
    Removed never-functional test for message read pointer exceeding
    message write pointer.
    
    3.1.9 DECSafe/TruCluster Environment Supports a Client Connecting via
          a Wide Area Network
    
    The TCP/IP transport now binds to an alias.
    
    3.1.10 Maximum Client Logons
    
    The connect indication array has been enlarged to 2000, up from 256.
    Also, dynamic re-size of connect indication array has been added.
    
    3.1.11 Windows 95 Share Browsing
    
    Windows 95 will now pass a larger buffer size to PATHWORKS Advanced
    Server when the initial buffer is too small to hold the information
    for all the shares on the server.
    
    3.1.12 WordPad on NT 4.0 Saves to a Share
    
    WordPad on NT 4.0 can now succesfully save a file in Word DOC Format
    to a share.
    
    3.1.13 Netscape Mail Saves to a Share
    
    Netscape mail is now written correctly to disk.
    
    3.1.14 The Net Share Command
    
    Removed functionality to proportion the buffer size for share
    enumeration.
    
    3.1.15 PWADMIN Directory Permissions
    
    The proper share name is now set up for permissions for directories in
    PWADMIN.
    
    3.1.16 ASTOOLS share updated to NT 4.0
    
    The ASTOOLS have been updated from NT 3.51 to NT 4.0.
    
    3.1.17 The default server name on the joindomain command
    
    While running the joindomain command, the default server is now
    correctly displayed as servername where servername is the hostname
    minus any '.' extensions (maximum of 15 characters).
    
    3.1.18 pwadmin Displaying Users
    
    pwadmin no longer crashes if there is more than 1300 users.  It also no
    longer displays duplicate entries when listing users.
    
    3.2 PATHWORKS NetWare Software
    
    3.2.1 NetWare Transport Reliability
    
    A Panic when NetWare transports start has been corrected.  Panic only
    occured Digital UNIX T4.0D systems.