Information below describes the feature changes on XSecurePro64.
Major differences 1.7/Release:20090726 from the differences 1.6/Release:20080606 version
The following enhancements have been made:
1. Ftp:
- any foreign SOCKS4 server may be used in "FTP via SOCKS4" mode
(earlier - only own Telnet/SSH's ones)
- most IBM MVS filesystems are processed with file-/directory- attributes
- the "Auto" Server Type item is added. Applicable in most cases.
2 Ping:
- the IP- and Port- scanning is improved
- some TCP servers may be checked more carefully
(HTTP, SMTP, POP3, IMAP, SSH , SPOP3/asSSL)
3. NFS-Server and NFS-Server as NT Service:
- "export.xml" file is used from now instead of the "export.us".
Automatical convertation is provided.
- standalone NFS-Settings facility with much more settings is implemented
- the exported name of share item may be vary to provide any external name for sharing resource (e.g. "/rfiles" for "C:\nfsexport")
- the "rwSizePref" and "topMaxbytes" settings are implemented to limit the rsize/wsize NFS buffers.
Actual for, say, VmWare ESX NFS-Client in NFS-3/TCP mode.
- the usage of NFS(2,3) version and/or transport (UDP,TCP) protocols are controlled now by corresponding settings
- two assistant settings are implemented for CreateFile of NFG-2 protocol to provide NFS-3 - like modes for CreateFile request - Guarded and CreateAsCreOpen, which is useful for some especial NFS-Clients.
- the "Verbose" trace mode has the influence on the NFS_ss.exe/Service also
4. NFS-Client for MS Windows 2K/2K3/XP/Vista win32 and/or x64:
- the installation under Windows 7 and Server 2008 is available
- better process of the exports with very many files
- modified the ShortName generation method
- Shell Extention Property Sheet DLL (XWPSHELL.DLL) is available under Vista also
- our standard Network Provider Name "XwpNTrdr" may be changed to any ASCII.
Actual for applications with built-in processing of "net use" output.
- NFS-Client NFSDrive :
- the new CheckBox "Explore" controls the starting of Windows Explorer after drive mapping (earlier - always)
- NFS-Client Settings :
- "LDAP" tab - the prefix "CN=Users" removed to provide the global searching in DB
- the "Enable TCP Reconnection" settings allows the dynamic reconnections to NFS-Server after network restarting (actual for, say, unstable WiFi)
- "Network" tab - the "TimeOut Period" setting is in seconds now (earlier - in msec) with 1..50000 sec limits
5. NFS-Client for MS Windows/x64 :
- NFS-ClientX64 NFS-Client for Windows/x64 was built-in in the package and is installed via usual Installation procedure.
- The NFS-ClientX64 may be installed under MS Server 2008 64bit
- The Shell Extention Property Sheet DLL (XWPSHL64.DLL) is implemented
6. XServer:
- the usage of MS Windows IME helper is blocked, because it is useless with XServer. To enter CJK text in an X client, you need to run any remote XIM server X-Client(e.g. "scim" or "gcin")
- Unicode titles of windows and icons in "Multiple" mode are provided if set as COMPOUND_TEXT lines or by "_NET_WM_NAME"/"_NET_WM_ICON_NAME" properties.
- multi-monitor "21" combination is allowed from now in all modes (including "FullScreen")
- xwp.ini/"[XSETUP]"/"PromptOnSuspend=1" implemented to control the transition to the "Suspend" PC mode.
- the FullScreen window can be created shifted using new mklShiftPriMonY0/X0 manual settings as default for mklFullScreenX0/Y0
- the mklFullScreenX0/Y0 manual settings allows to set the necessary position of the XServer/FullScreen window
- many operational X-Sessions may be run with the same Display Number if you use separate local IP address for each X-Session.
Very actual for PC with many IP addresses.
7. Startup:
- "joblist.xml" file is used from now instead of the "joblist.ini".
Automatical convertation is provided.
- the Status bar shows your actual "DisplayName" value and"ini"-file specification.
- the specific name of joblist file may be set in each your "xwp.ini" file
- the new "Close Job" button implemented to dismiss the usage of the another "ini"-file (which was loaded because of "Open Job.." action)
- any foreign SOCKS4 server may be used (earlier - only own Telnet/SSH's ones)
8. NFS-Client SDK:
- the C++ "nfsc1_t" sample test which uses the "nfsc_ipp" sample XwpNFS-SDK toolkit classes is implemented.
Full sources of "nfsc1_t" sample test project are freely available.
- the C++ "nfsc_ipp" sample XwpNFS-SDK toolkit as interface to low-level NFSLib32.dll XwpNFS-SDK API with three XwpNFS-SDK toolkit classes (XWPNfsClConn, XWPNfsClDirList and XWPNfsClFile) are implemented.
The direct usage of low-level NFSLIb32.dll XwpNFS-SDK API (nfslib32.h, nfslibex.h, nfslib32.lib) is obsolete now.
Full sources of "nfsc_ipp" sample XwpNFS-SDK toolkit project are freely available.
- more NFS operations (rm, rmdir, mkdir, rename ) are available in the limited free demo-version of low-level NFSLib32.dll XwpNFS-SDK API.
The limited free demo NFSLib32.dll XwpNFS-SDK API is freely available.
- directories with very many files and/or very long filenames are available for browsing now
- the sample libNFSC.cpr settings file are more useful and informational now.
9. Ftp/NFSViewer:
- more remote operations (rm, rmdir, mkdir, rename ) are available in the libNFSC.DLL NFS-Viewer, limited free demo-version of the full NFS-Browser plug-in, based on the XwpNFS-SDK API.
The limited free demo libNFSC.dll is freely available.
- directories with very many files and/or very long filenames are available for browsing now
- the sample libNFSC.cpr settings file are more useful and informational now.
10. Settings:
- The XStartup facility can be started from the Run -> XServer tab.
Is actual if you use variable name of JobList file in different "xwp.ini" - files.
11. XDK:
- the "XLOCALEDIR" env.var. may contain Windows drives.
The pathDelimiter=';' is used instead of standard ':'.
Actual if the network multi-user installation is used.
- useful XLib API entrance implemented for local convertation of COMPOUND_TEXT strings to UTF8 strings (is used by Xserver for CJK titles):
int __stdcall mklXWPXLibConvertCOMPOUND_TEXT_to_UTF8(const char *loc_, char *utf_buf, const char *string, int max_utf)
Used by new XServer/Multiple to output CJK titles.
- the ".pdb" files for XDK are available (may be requested) to debug your own X-program base on XDK
The following bugs have been fixed:
1. Ftp:
- the "HideDrives" settings may lead to crash if network drive(s) is presented in Windows list of drives.
2. NFS-Server and NFS-Server as NT Service:
- ReaddirPlus crashed sometimes with very long directories if rsize/wsize are too small, may take place the leaks of items or application crash.
- the "UselongReadDirPlus=1" mode is reanimated and significantly improved.
But for very long directories we recommend to use the "timeo=..." option on the "mount" with reasonable timeout (say, 1000).
- many_f(30,5000,15000)/NFS3 is tested: tcp/udp, 1K/32K, Uselong...=0/1
- "super-long" filenames leaded to "RPC error:cannot transmit".
(now the Alrternate filename 8.3 is used)
- checks that the files are exist (important for volatile directories) to prevent the empty reply on readdir[plus]
- the "RPC error: cannot transmit" message took place if RPC READDIR[plus] or read requests contained auth "verifier" item
- the "RPC error: cannot transmit" message took place on some NFS-3 read requests (with very short and very long rsize/wsize attributes)
- the rsize/wsize lehgths in replies are more correct now
- the full local DOS(!) path returned sometimes (instead of clear file name) on NFS rename request
- more correct processed the "violent files' life", when any file/directory may be created/changed locally as well as via NFS
(including active local removing of deep subdirectories)
- more correct NFSERR code is sent on Errors after: CreateDirectory, RemoveDirectory, CreateFile and ReadFile
- correct processing of V3/EXCLUSIVE CreateFile (return NFSERR_NOTSUPP)
- nfs_create supports now the size/atime/mtime attributes
Actual for some VmWare ESX NFS-Client to set correct date for files.
- nfs_write/NFS-3 and nfs_setattr/NFS-3 provide the "before_attr3" now.
- restarting the NFS server, sometimes confuses the vxWorks NFS client, by having the exports in a different order.
- CreateFile locked the processing file even it opened only for shareable reading as result, local access to such as files was blocked
(e.g. cygwin's "tail -f file" watching was impossible).
3. NFS-Client for MS Windows 2K/2K3/XP/Vista win32 and/or x64:
- sometimes the leaks in the listing of export took place
- the clearing of pending TDI requests is more correct now (the BSOD took place if very many files on export)
- BSOD took place if the NFS-Server did not send the file ShortName in reply
- under Vista the NPDLL's trace file was not copied on reboot
- incorrect returning Error codes of NPGetConnection() and NPCancelConnection() requests leaded to problems(even BSOD) for other Windows Network Providers.
E.g., LanMan's mappings were marked by the red cross in MyComputer explorer and could not be unmapped sometimes
- fixed the wrong execution from DOS the rename command with the "*" in the target
- fixed the wrong execution from DOS the copy.. command if the current directory was not the root one
- undocumented requests to driver (unedr Vista+SP1) are processed.
- the BSOD under Vista+SP1 took place in DOS after Ctrl+C in intensive copy-fc-del commands loop
- was no unmapping after the UNC access, i.e. new settings did not have any influence on such as mapped exports (up to Windows reboot).
- the result of UNC execution of "NET USE", w/o local name, e.g."NET USE \\Srv\ShNam", was invisible in the "NET USE" output and could not be dismounted by "NET USE /DELETE \\Srv\ShNam" command or via Windows Explorer
- sometimes (depends on the filename length) some EXE- file cannot be started from Explorer under Vista/UAC with the wrong message "the specified path does not exist".
- file was not copied using the "Copy" item of Explorer pop-up menu (by the right mouse button) in the same directory with the standard "Copy of " name prefix.
- unexpected(by Windows) driver registration prevented to run some MSI files under Windows 2003 Server with the wrong error message "Windows Installer Not Accessible".
- the mapping by "Reconnect at Logon" mode (during the next Logon) could provide the deadlock(under Vista) and BSOD(WinXp+SP3) while the earlier Authorization dialog box is on Desktop.
- NFS-Client NFSDrive:
- the horizontal scrolling is added to wotk with long names of exports
4. NFS-Client for MS Windows/x64 :
- installing this under Win2003R2/x64 server killed the Windows RPC service.
As result, disabled a lot of network related services and protocols.
5. XServer:
- the default position of creating windows in "Multiple" mode was wrong sometimes
6. Startup:
- the actual DisplayNumber is used in starting telnet/SSH
(earlier "X11 Forwarding" used only DisplayNumber=0);
- the correct toggling of the "iniSpf" attribute of creating jobs is provided after each "Open Job.." action
7. Ftp/NFSViewer:
- the mount connection was not closed after mount operation completion
- was not operational if non-single network card presented
- mount used non-reserved (>1024) local port number, as result, some mount-servers rejected the connection as non-trusted
- LOOKUP requests were wrong sometimes
- the incorrect FreeSize calculation in ReadDir[Plus] reply was fixed
- some settings (XWPBroadTime, XWPRetryNumber, XWPTimeOut and XWPTraceLevel) are loaded from selected ".cpr" file more correct.
8. Settings:
- Was not refreshed the state of buttons on the after Run -> NFS-Server servive -> Start service
- On the Troubleshooting tab the "IP address to access to XServer" setting was processed incorrectly (reversed).
9. NFS-Client SDK:
- the mount connection was not closed after mount operation completion
- was not operational if non-single network card presented
- mount used non-reserved (>1024) local port number, as result, some mount-servers rejected the connection as non-trusted
- LOOKUP requests were wrong sometimes
- the incorrect FreeSize calculation in ReadDir[Plus] reply was fixed
- some settings (XWPBroadTime, XWPRetryNumber, XWPTimeOut and XWPTraceLevel) are loaded from selected ".cpr" file more correct.
10. XDK:
- X-Client can load xwpwsock.dll non-only times without crash.
11. Telnet and Telnet/SSH:
- In the file telnet.out password and user-id were logged unencrypted.
Major differences 1.6/Release:20080606 from the differences 1.5/Release:20070707 version
New Features on this release include:
1. Ftp:
- the "HideDrives" optional setting implemented to provide
the disk drives' visibility. This allows you to reflect the Windows
User Configuration -> Windows Components -> Windows Explorer
Policy Settings. You can also provide your own drives' visibility;
- in the SFTP mode the ASCII/BINARY transfer mode switching was implemented
(same as FTP mode).
Important note. Since the added feature is non-standard for SFTP,please make
sure you are aware that the initial state of transfer mode is "BINARY".
- the "NFS-Browser" mode was implemented to allow access to any remote
NFS-Server's export without any NFS-Client installed on a local PC.
It is the demo of the "NFS-Client SDK" usage. The "trNFSbr.cpr" file
may be pointed in the "CPR file" input field to enable the full tracing.
2. NFS-Server:
- the "-RunOnTaskbar" did not allow the "Settings" item of the Taskbar
menu (and the "Exports" button was passivated);
- to avoid the error message at shutdown of the PC with the NFS-Server
running, the "GracefulExit=0" manual setting was implemented;
- the Unicode/UTF8 mode was implemented;
- the "Use UTF8 Name Format" setting is available in the "NFS-Server Settings";
- the "umask=" optional setting was implemented to provide
the understandable control of the files permissions. The default
value is the traditional umask=0022.
The "FL_MITXELENA=1" setting is obsolete as subset of umask.
- the 8.3 filename is used in non-Unicode mode for files with non-ANSI
long filenames.
- the "Exports" tab (the "Settings" item of Taskbar menu) is available
now if the NFS-Server is started with "-RunOnTaskbar" option.
3. NFS-Client for MS Windows NT4/2K/2K3/XP/Vista:
- the UNC access has been significantly improved. A user can directly access
remote NFS servers without the necessity to navigate via "explorer.
This feature is available under WinXP/SP2, Win2003/SP1 and Vista;
- the empty "net use server:export" command line is now allowed to allow UNC access
to NFS-Servers;
- the Unicode/UTF8 mode was implemented.
The mounting exports must still be in ANSI only;
- the "NFS Settings -> Permissions -> Remember ROFS (Read Only File
System)Reply" setting was implemented to block the Write(), MKDIR(),
CreateFile(), Rename(), SetFileAttributes() operation on the NFS Server and
return the STATUS_ACCESS_DENIED.
- NFS-Client can be installed now under MS Windows Server 2003 R2.
- the "super-silent" installation was implemented to provide the mode of
"invisible" installation of the NFS-Client as the part of a foreign package;
- The NFS-Client now supports the "CheckDirList" request of the NFS-Client mini-DDK.
It provides "pseudo" re-mapping(re-mount) actions for UNC-way access
of "bad" remote NFS-Servers which can unpredictably restart sometimes.
The checknfs.exe utility is the sample implementation of this
(see the checknfs.txt for details).
- Processed the "sophisticated rename/delete MS Windows file operation"
when long- and short- filenames are used very specifically during the first 15 seconds.
(see MSDN Library "File Name Aliases" article).
This is for the "Aditor" text editor;
- The "NFS Settings -> Name Converting -> Remember Long Name Alias"
setting was implemented to provide a "sophisticated rename/delete MS Windows file operation" mode;
- The Authentication(PCNFSd and/or LDAP) usage are much more flexible now.
Four new settings are now implemented :
- "NFS Settings -> Authentication -> Ask Authentication for each
connecting attempt"
- "NFS Settings -> Authentication -> Use NFS Authentication during MS
Windows Login"
- "NFS Settings -> Authentication -> Use MS Login Name/Password for
NFS Authentication"
- In "NFS Client Authentication" Dialogbox has added the "Anonymous" button
to set UID=-2 and GID=-2 for Unix Authentication
- The LDAP Authentication was implemented to access the LDAP Active Directory
Servers of Windows 2003 R2 Standart Edition and/or Enterprise Edition.
The mentioned Standard and Enterprise Editions have different schemes
and require the additional tuning of the NFS-Client(see ldaptest.txt for details);
- The "NFS Settings -> Authentication -> Use LDAP v3 Server" setting
was implemented to allow LDAP usage for Unix NFS Authentication;
- The "Permissions" tab is divided to "Authentication" and "Permissions";
- The "NFS Settings -> Permissions -> Use NULL Secure DACL" setting
was implemented to set NULL DACL as parameter in any file operations.
- The "NFS Settings -> Name Converting -> Use this symbol as prefix for
reaserved Windows names" setting is implemented to mark the reserved
names as AUX, CON, NUL, and etc. By defauld is "^".
- The "NFS Settings -> Advanced -> NFS3 write synchronization mode"
setting was implemented to set Asynchronous or Synchronous NFS-3
write mode. This has critical influence on the writing performance.
4. XServer:
- under Vista, with the "DesktopComposition" mode was enabled,
the resizing/moving of windows in "Multiple" mode was very slow;
- the "TerminateOnSuspend=1" mode was implemented to provide a graceful
termination of X-Clients on suspend of PC's;
- the XServer will be able to keep up to 126 X-Clients;
- the Animated Cursors are available now in "enabled RENDER" mode;
The sofisticated scaling, cuttings and ARGB processing are provided.
- the "DisableRENDERAnimCursor=1" mode was implemented to provide the
standard arrow instead of the true client cursor.
This was done to accelerate and to prevent some ugly cursors
of some X-Clients;
- the "-hwndParent " option was implemented to allow
to run the XServer/Single as subwindow of another Windows window.
This is for the implementation of the "embedded XServer" ActiveX mode
(see the xsrv_ax.txt for details);
- the Reply time limit of reading fonts from a FontServer are controlled
now to avoid the delays for huge fonts (say, ISO10646 fonts)
5. XStartup:
- the "Disconnect" button was implemented for RLogin/RExec/RSH modes
to process the possible infinite (with disabled "Exit after timeout of"
setting) timeout carefully;
- the "LogFile" settings is available for RLogin
6. NFS-Client SDK:
- this all-sufficient Software Development Kit (SDK) can be run from
your programs to provide access to exported resources of the NFS-Servers.
Its application program interface (API) is similar to the standard one
of MS I/O "File Management Functions" API.
Full NFS-protocol access is provided without the necessity of using any other
software (that can be installed on your PC and usually named as
"NFS-Client for MS Windows").
7. Ftp/SFTP and Telnet/SSH:
- the higher priority of IPv4 (compare with IPv6) usage was introduced
to avoid possible connection problems on some systems.
8. Telnet and Telnet/SSH:
- some terminals ("vt100","vt52"..) were not colored originally. The deviation
from the strong emulation was implemented to allow to use colors
for such as terminal types.
Major differences 1.5/Release:20070707 from the differences 1.4/Release:20070119 version
New Features on this release include:
1. Ftp
- Enlarged the receiving buffer size up to 32K.
The send- and receive- speeds are close to each other now.
- Local directories may be renamed now.
2. NFS-Server
- Implemented more correct processing of date/time and changes for subdirectories.
- Implemented the "EnableWriteCaching" manual setting (as equivalent
to the Unix "ASync" NFS-Server mode).
- Included the "EmulateUnixDirTimeOnFATFS" manual setting for FATFS exports.
3. NFS-Server as NT Service:
- The Warning Message about necessity to restart the Service
is issued after changes in NFS-Server settings via the new "Settings"
facility.
4. NFS-Client for MS Windows NT4/2K/2K3/XP/Vista:
- The driver now provides the Inode number limit more than 65565.
- The driver now processes exported directories with large amount
of files (more than 7000).
- To delete client's icons from Start Menu under Vista32, direct removing
of links from a directory for all users was implemented in the delete
client program.
- The option for unmounting a network drive was included into the mounting
program.
5. XServer:
- Implemented the "Reduce heavy Graphic" mode.
- Added the "XKEYBOARD_Extension" setting.
- Restored the "new old" mode ("TrPW2") for non-standard X11-Clients.
Now its name is "Emulate WM window substrate".
- Implemented the "RecoveryAutoClipboard" mode to avoid the incorrect
behaviour of some MS Windows applications, which do not process correctly
the Clipboard Event queue.
6. ComSetup
- Now ComSetup is placed in the new "Settings" facility.
- Implemented the "SilentBell" setting.
7. XSettings
- Now XSettings is placed in the new "Settings" facility.
- Added the "Advanced"->"Reduce heavy Graphic" setting.
- Added the "Troubleshooting"->"Emulate WM window substrate" setting.
8. Settings
- New facility that integrates the "ComSetup" and "XSettings" facilities.
Major differences 1.4/Release:20070119 from the 1.3/Release:20060612 version
New Features on this release include:
1. Installation:
- The Installation procedure accepts a prepared file with
NFS-Client settings. The file must have the "nfsclnt.cpr" name
and locate in the package distributive directory ("near the setup.exe" file).
It is especially useful for "silent" installations.
- The Installation procedure accepts a prepared file with
Telnet settings. The file must have the "prosets.ini" name
and locate in the package distributive directory ("near the setup.exe" file).
It is especially useful for "silent" installations.
2. Ftp
- Enlarged the allowed name length of files or directories from 100 to 255 symbols;
- Improved comprehension of the StatusBar;
- Improved messages during Directory Copying.
3. Telnet and Telnet_SSH:
- Columns-selection-by-rectangular is supplemented with selection-
by-filling that provides text highlighting selection in traditional manner.
- Implemented the "Quick Copy to Clipboard" mode, in which "Copy"
is performed on release of the left mouse button.
- Implemented "Copy"/"Paste"-by-keyboard that are close to traditional manner.
By default, "Copy"/"Paste" use the "Ctrl_L+Shift_L+C"/"Ctrl_L+Shift_L+V"
keys combinations.
- Implemented the "Fit To Screen" setting on the "Text" tab for the "XTERM"
emulation Type to guarantee that an application window is fully displayed on
the PC's screen (i.e. it does not cross screen boundaries).
If necessary, Scroll Bars are created.
- Implemented the "Dynamic resize" setting on the "Text" tab for the "XTERM"
emulation Type to provide the "no scrollbar" mode. The actual Rows and
Columns numbers are dynamically being changed while window resizing.
- The "XTERM" terminal emulation provides 16-colors mode
instead of B/W one.
- More connection's parameters (UserName, LogLevel,
Default Forwarding, etc) are saved in profile(s).
4. NFS-Server as NT Service:
- Implemented the "Enable logging (to NFSLOG.TXT)" setting
for the NFS-Server as a NT Service.
5. NFS-Server
- Provides more expected date/time values for directories now;
- By default, the 'system', 'archive' or 'hidden' Windows file attributes
are not used or changed at all;
- If a file has the "r" Unix attribute, then it will automatically have
the "x" attribute as well;
- Implemented the "DisableReadCaching" manual setting to provide
concurrent intensive access to files directly and via NFS connections;
- Implemented more informational trace logging.
6. NFS-Client for MS Windows NT4/2K/2K3/XP/Vista:
- NFS-Client is operational under MS Vista too;
- Implemented the NfsAlias assistant facility to view the NFS-Serves list and their exports
with corresponding aliases. This information is useful for the "Net Use..." mapping way;
- Implemented the Nfsdrive facility as the useful own mapping tool. It allows you to avoid
the Windows traditional 30-sec delay (per each IP address);
- Enlarged the allowed size of mapped export for the NFS-3 mode from 4 TeraBytes to 4 PetaBytes.
This is of great importance to access exported RAIDs;
- Implemented recognition (and substitution) of the Windows reserved names (AUX, CON, COM1...);
- The position of the NFS-Client in the MS Windows Network Provider
order is managed via the NFS-Client Settings. This is very useful
when collisions with other MS Windows Network Providers take place
(e.g., Microsoft Network Client).
- The NFSSetup installation utility accepts a prepared file with
NFS-Client settings. This file must have the "nfsclnt.cpr" name.
7. NFS-Client for x64 MS Windows 2K3/XP/Vista:
- Implemented the Beta MS Windows XP/2003/Vista x64 NFS-Client.
8. XServer:
- The MESA Emulation mode is available if the "RENDER" Extension mode
is enabled.
- Implemented new behavior of the "Virtual Root size" dimensions
with "Fit to Screen Size" disabled. If the Width and/or Height
fields have zero or negative values, then the actual screen size
is the sum of this value and the corresponding dimension of the PC's Screen.
For "Multiple" and "Multiple+RWM" modes, only the "0" and "-1" values
are used.
9. XSettings
- Implemented a new version of the program that provides users with better outlook
and more settings to adjust XServer's behavior.
The following bugs have been fixed:
1. Ftp
- Sometimes the "FXP:...not connected" unexpected message took
place when copying files;
- Fixed error processing of file listing with some modern Ftp-daemons.
2. Telnet and Telnet_SSH:
- Fixed some bugs in the XTERM/Standard mode;
- Sometimes unexpected resizing of an application window took place.
- Fixed some bugs in viewing previous screens (including
1024-line screens).
- Fixed some bugs in marking a selection area (including
those that were detected while focus and window activity changing).
- Sometimes incorrect "list of sessions" may appear.
This is actual if the "Use SSH Forwarding" (SOCKS4) is used
in FTP, XStartup and NFS-Client.
- Corrected the possibility to type in the "Passphrase" field for the
"Use RSA key to log in" mode.
3. NFS-Server and NFS-Server as NT Service:
- NFS-Server can crash sometimes in NFS-3/UDP mode
(depends on actual rsize/wsize values);
- It was not possible to set up or change the "modified time" directory
attribute.
4. NFS-Server as NT Service:
- The NFS-Server as NT Service may unexpectedly output the
"Perror...svc_run: - select failed..." error message while
performing Service "Restart" or "Stop".
5. NFS-Client for MS Windows NT4/2K/2K3/XP:
- The driver crash (and BSOD) took place sometimes if the NFS-Server answered
on requests with a large delay (because of, say, ZoreAlarm concurrent working);
- Fixed some bugs for the PCNFSD authentication mode
(including those that were detected while working via MS Windows TSE Client).
- Accelerated disconnection (dismounting) of mapped drives
due to more correct handling of the Mutex Shared Memory.
- If the MS Windows system has more than one IP address, then sometimes
the displayed list of remote NFS-Servers might not be valid.
- The "Enable mounting of subdirectories" mode is more correct now.
- Fixed the crash (BSOD) that takes place when ZoneAlarm is installed
on the same PC. The nature of the bug was in incorrect processing
of pending system requests while performing Overlapped I/O operation.
- Corrected performing of the NFS-3 ReadDirPlus operation
for the case when the remote directory is large.
6. XServer:
- Provided more correct output into log-files in the DynamicDisplayNumber mode;
- XServer/Single in the GLX/OpenGL32 mode showed leaking memory
and GDI objects;
- Renovated GLX OpenGL32 and MESA DLLs and so become incompatible with the old XServer;
- Wrong displaying of some Umlaut symbols may take place
on German or French versions of MS Windows.
- In the "Multiple" mode, a CDE logon menu "blinks" (appears and quickly
disappears) on mouse button press.
Major differences 1.3/Release:20060612 from the 1.2/Release:20051120 version
New Features on this release include:
1. FTP:
- Implemented the FTP security extension (RFC2228). It requires MIT Kerberos for Windows to be installed.
- Implemented UTF-8 conversion of names.
- Implemented IPv6 support.
2. Telnet and Telnet_SSH:
- Implemented Saving of Screen history (i.e., Saving of all Extend Screens).
- Improved the flexibility for the XTERM emulation mode.
- Implemented UTF-8 substitution.
- Implemented the "-prof profilename" option in the command line.
3. NFS-Server:
- The "FL_DOUGLASCBEETHE=1" manual setting allows you to set file size 0 for read-only files.
4. NFS-Client for MS Windows NT4/2K/2K3/XP:
- Changed the outlook of the NFS-Servers list.
- Buffer sizes of 16KB and 32KB are available for NFS-3 via TCP/IP.
- Widened the range of "life times" for files and directories (for very large directories).
- Implemented the "ASync" send mode for the NFS-3 protocol (may accelerate data transfer from the PC to the remote host up to 20 times).
- Implemented the support of relative symbolic links.
5. XServer:
- Implemented two macros, "TraceWS_9", "TraceWS_OFF", to control network tracing.
- Implemented the RENDER Extension (not available in the 8-bit mode). This also provides wider range of available pixmap depths.
- Implemented the "MAX_XSELECTION_BYTES=..." manual setting to enlarge the default (1MB) size for X-Selection which may be copied to/from the MS Windows Clipboard.
- Implemented the "AllowCONTEXTMENU=1" manual setting to allow the standard MS Windows Context Menu.
- Implemented the "CheckXDesk=1" manual setting to provide the correct focus processing by the XDesk virtual desktop manager.
6. XDK:
- Implemented 11 libGL v1.3 functions ("_glXCreateNewContext", ...).
7. X-Clients:
- Added the "xdpyinfo" X-Client.
The following bugs have been fixed:
1. FTP in FXP mode:
- Fixed the incorrect viewing of a current directory specification
and other FXP-specific bugs.
2. Telnet and Telnet_SSH:
- The selection rectangular did not clear all the time.
- Suppressed any unnecessary Telnet attempts to update read-only ".ini"-files.
3. NFS-Server:
- Changed from 2 to 1 the number of hard links to a directory
to provide correct execution of the UNIX "find" command.
4. NFS-Client for MS Windows NT4/2K/2K3/XP:
- The BSOD may take place on Write operation in NFS-3 mode;
- Implemented the "Use NULL Security DACL" setting to resolve a collision with the MS Installer under Windows 2003.
5. NFS-Server as NT Service:
- After restarting the service, a client could not get connected.
6. XServer:
- Dot defects may take place when drawing dashed lines.
- An empty IP list may take place when your PC has a non-single IP address.
Major differences 1.2/Release:20051120 from the 1.1/Release:20050429 version
New Features on this release include:
1. Comsetup:
- implemented the "Disable Log Output" setting to prevent attempts to write in the ".out" and ".ini" files from any of the package's facility
2. Ping (renovated):
- implemented the IPv6 support (in both the ICMP and TCP modes)
- TCP ping is allowed to standard TCP/IP echo port 7 as well as to any other TCP port entered
- allows to scan the LAN
3. FTP:
- the latest local working directory is activated when selecting profile
- implemented the FXP mode to copy files between two remote FTP servers
4. NFS-Server:
- implemented the WebNFS support
- implemented the ability to mount a subdirectory of a shared one
5. Telnet and Telnet_SSH :
- implemented the IPv6 support
- implemented the named "profiles" (pre-set sessions)
- saved telnet-screens ("back buffer") may be written to a file
- implemented the "keyboard-interactive" authentication mode
6. NFS-Client for MS Windows NT4/2K/2K3/XP :
- implemented the ability to mount a subdirectory of a shared one (if the remote NFS-Server allows that)
7. XStartup :
- implemented the "empty Default UserID for Jobs" setting to suppress using the Windows logon name as default in the Jobs' "Startup Login" dialogs
8. XServer :
- changed the default keycode for the Mode_switch key from 255 to 254 to satisfy HP XDMCP
- changed the NumLock keycode from 140 to 77 in the "Keyboard Mapping for Linux" mode
- allowed "KEY126". It is used in the PortBraz ABNT2 keyboard as "KEY126= 0x2e, 0x2e ; (XK_period,XK_period)"
- the ibmremap.ini file provides additional keycode remapping
- implemented the XKB Extension as option (requires the "+kb" option yet)
- users can disable any/all items of the XServer's Control menu. The following line must be manually inserted in the "[XSETUP]" section of the "xwp.ini" file to block all the menu items:
MenuDisable=Restore,Move,Size,Minimize,Maximize,Close,Edit,Options,LocalRef,Restart,Macros,Messages,Run,About,Help,Readme,Refresh,LocalWin
- implemented the IPv6 support except for the XDMCP mode
9. X-Clients :
- implemented the IPv6 support.
The following bugs have been fixed:
1. Ping (renovated):
- stopped the usage of raw sockets. The standard MS Windows ICMP interface is used instead to allow non-admin users to use ping
2. FTP:
- timer stops after 10800 ticks
- reget shows bytes already copied
- drag & drop features for the MVS system
3. NFS-Server:
- corrected the setup dialog to suppress output of wrong symbols
- fixed the bug with incorrect printing
4. NFS-Client for MS Windows NT4/2000/2003/XP:
- the "ReadDirPlus" request of NFS-3 incorrectly resulted in splitted requests
- fixed some bugs during testing under Windows 2003 Server with Sp1
5. XSetup:
- compiling WINFONTS resulted in an application crash
6. XFontset Service:
- viewing WINFONTS used resulted in an application crash
7. XServer:
- using WINFONTS resulted in an application crash
- the PolyFillRect X11 operation sometimes resulted in the XServer crash
- the accept() network request is performed more carefully to suppress wrong delays during a remote desktop startup process
- removed the curious for TrueColor mode (but wrong) influence of Refresh Palette settings
8. XServer in the "Multiple+RemoteWM" mode:
- fixed some focus/activation by mouse bugs (in both the "point window" and "click window" focus modes)
- sometimes the mouse cursor view was wrong
- sometimes failed window creating and/or positioning (e.g. using the AFNI program package)
- sometimes menu usage was wrong because of the wrong windows order in XServer (e.g. MATLAB under CDE-1.5/1.6 on SunSolaris machines)
Major differences 1.1/Release:20050429 from the 1.0/Release:20041126 version
New Features on this release include:
1. FTP and SFTP:
- implemented the SFTP mode
- FTP can copy files with illegal symbols using a map table
2. Startup:
- implemented the Telnet startup mode (as well as SSH-2)
- implemented the "-lxdn []" option to set up the "$(DISPLAYNUMBER)" macros (the "-lxdn" option means lookup running XServer)
In this case, the XServer must already have been started
- the "Log File" and "Exit after Timeout" settings are now available for Telnet and the Telnet/SSH mode
3. NFS-Server:
- refuses to close and shut down system if mounts are active
- supports the fixed or static port assignment
- made some changes concerning export names in the graphic interface
- some illegal symbols (such as '*',':','$','|') in file names can be used
(i.e. CATIA often tries to create file names with mentioned symbols)
4. Telnet and Telnet_SSH:
- Telnet can be started as a non-interactive session via the Startup facility (as well as SSH-2)
- implemented the "-mout []" command-line option to provide a "readable" log-file for the session
- implemented the "-lxdn []" command-line option to set the "DISPLAY" session environment variable if a remote daemon supports it. (the "-lxdn" option means lookup running XServer)
- Telnet understands the local XServer's "DynamicDisplayNumber" mode and correctly looks for the running XServer
5. Telnet_SSH:
- implemented the "-log " option to set up the tracing level (0..7)
- the "-lxdn []" option provides correct X11-forwarding (if set)
6. NFS-Client for MS Windows NT4/2000/XP:
- implemented the dynamic allocation of inodes to accept large exports
- implemented the WebNFS protocol
- increased the maximal numbers for accepted NFS-Servers and exported directories
- upgraded the NFSProbe utility
7. XSetup:
- added the Portuguese (Brazilian) keyboard mapping file, "portbraz.kmf"
8. XServer:
- the XStartup and Telnet are invoked with the "-lxdn " option (from the XServer's "Run" submenu)
- the last state of the "If Colormap Changed" setting in the XServer's "Options" submenu is saved for future sessions
- XServer/Multiple+RWM provides more convenient behavior of new windows including the XDMCP Logon window
- XServer/GLX/Mesa conforms to Mesa 6.2.1
9. X-Clients:
- added the "xmodmap" X-Client
- added the "glxinfo" and "glxgears" GLX X-Clients
- implemented the "libGL.dll", "libGLU.dll", "libGLUT.dll" and "libXI.dll"
libraries to provide GLX X-Client's run-time environment
10. XDK:
- provided support for X-Clients that use the GLX extension. Corresponding ".h" and ".lib"
files are added in the XDK set. Four sample GLX X-Clients are also added (as MS VC 6.0 projects with sources)
The following bugs have been fixed
1. Installation:
- the silent installation did not correctly use some saved installation parameters (i.e. the "Destination directory")
2. NFS-Server:
- fixed the bug when the number of inodes exceeds maximal value
- corrected the 'inremnode failed' message
3. Telnet and Telnet_SSH:
- more correct restarting to remove a possible "restart loop" and crash after the "password->"Disconnect" action
4. NFS-Client for MS Windows NT4/2000/XP:
- the "ls *" command line of MS SFU Korn Shell got caught in an endless loop of NFS requests to the NFS-Server
- processing of the Server List is more correct now
- a name of a mapped drive is shown correctly now
5. XSetup:
- removed some non-actual settings
6. XServer:
- XServer/Multiple+RWM incorrectly processed the disabling (from X-Client) of the shape region
- sometimes the XTRANS/accept() error code was processed incorrectly that led to unexpected error messages
- the composer key is accepted from the KeyPress moment (it was from the KeyRelease moment, that is not correct)
- reanimated the "Raise all windows" action in the XServer's menu
- fixed the possible incorrect processing of "shading"
Undocumented Features
1. Comsetup:
- Implemented the "Disable Log Output" setting to prevent attempts
to write in the ".out" and ".ini" files from any of the package's features.
2. Ping (renovated):
- The "*" wild card symbol may be used once in the IP address
(in both IPv4 and/or IPv6 cases) to scan 256 hosts on the LAN.
Examples of correct IP addresses:
"192.168.0.*", "fe80::250:baff:fef2:*42%4".
3. Ftp:
- To enter in the FXP mode, the "Server"->"FXP/FTP Connect" menu item
must be chosen to log on the second remote host after the usual
FTP log on the first host was completed. After this the left FTP's
pane will represent the 2nd remote FTP server.
4. Telnet and Telnet_SSH:
- The "SelectRect=0" line can be
inserted into the "[telnet]" section of the xwp.ini file
to set the selection by filling mode, which provides the traditional
text highlighting selection.
- The "QuickClipBoard=1" line can be
inserted into the "[telnet]" section of the xwp.ini file
to set the "Quick Copy to Clipboard" mode, when the "Copy"
performed on release of the left mouse button.
- The "CtrlCVmode=3" line can be
inserted into the "[telnet]" section of the xwp.ini file
to exactly set the traditional "Copy"/"Paste" key combination
("Ctrl+C"/"Ctrl+V"). Be careful, because in this mode you cannot
send to remote application another "traditional" key combination
"Ctrl+C" (break event).
The "CtrlCVmode=5" is the default ("Ctrl_L+Shift_L+C"/"Ctrl_L+Shift_L+V").
5. NFS-Server:
- The "WebNFS Enable"/"Unset as WebNFS" buttons of the
"NFS-Server Settings" dialog allow/disable the WebNFS support.
- The "NOSubDirectory=0" line can be
inserted into the "[NFSSERVER]" section of the xwp.ini file
to disable the ability to mount a subdirectory of a shared one.
6. NFS-Client for Windows NT4/2K/2K3/XP/Vista:
- The "NFS-Client Settings"->Advanced->"Enable mounting of subdirectories"
setting must be enabled to allow mounting a subdirectory of a shared one
(if the remote NFS-Server allows that).
- The NFSSetup installation utility allows the "silent" installation
mode. The "nfssetup.exe PathToMainPackage IconName -q" command line
provides this.
7. XServer:
- The "DontUse_MOTIF_WM_HINTS=1" line can be
inserted into the "[XSERVERdeb]" section of the xwp.ini file
to prevent from processing the "_MOTIF_WM_HINTS" windows property.
- The "DontCheckWM_SIZE_HINTSinc=1" line can be
inserted into the "[XSERVERdeb]" section of the xwp.ini file
to prevent from processing the "WM_SIZE_HINTS" windows property.
- The "MAX_XSELECTION_BYTES=..." line can be
inserted into the "[XSETUP]" section of the xwp.ini file
to enlarge the default (1Mb) size of X-Selection which may be
copied to/from the MS Windows Clipboard.
E.g., the "MAX_XSELECTION_BYTES=2000000" line sets the ~2Mb limit.
- The "AllowCONTEXTMENU=1" line can be
inserted into the "[XSETUP]" section of the xwp.ini file
to allow the standard MS Windows Context Menu
(when right-click on the windows title bar provides
the standard drop-down menu).
- The "CheckXDesk=1" line can be
inserted into the "[XSETUP]" section of the xwp.ini file
to provide the correct focus processing
by the XDesk virtual desktop manager.
8. XSettings:
- Implemented the "enable RENDER Extension" setting.
Known problems and limitations
1. Lpd:
- Printers on the remote MS Windows NT4 hosts
are unavailable from the local host under MS Windows NT4.
2. NFS-Server:
- There can be problems on PCs with several IP addresses.
- Some Linux NFS-3 Clients may issue an error message
(about the wrong file ID) because of wrong packets unwrapping
in the Linux's "nfs3xdr.c" module.
3. NFS-Client for Windows 9x:
- The PC must be restarted after you change the license
file, "xwpdllid.dll".
- Can fail when connecting to an NFS server on another PC under Windows 9x
if both PCs have Client/Server for Microsoft Networks installed.
4. XServer:
- Drawing partial arcs can be very slow.
- The CDE/XDMCP of the HP-UX host can provide infinite
waiting time for a connection. To avoid this, the new "HP" fonts
alias directory should be included into the XServer FontPath.
- The "Forced Backing Store" setting can provide wrong
screen re-displaying in some cases (e.g., Netscape scrolling).
PLEASE NOTE:
The programs associated in this package may send and/or receive broadcast IP
requests. Since such packets cannot cross the nearest
firewall/gateway/router,
please be sure that these IP requests are invisible from outside your
network.
We assume that such behavior cannot be considered as "Hacking"
or "Trojan horse's action".
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