HP-UX HB v13.00 Ch-20 - CIFS

HP-UX Handbook – Rev 13.00 Page 7 (of 40)
Chapter 20 CIFS
October 29, 2013
delayed. Security fixes will be back ported to HP CIFS Server asap in order to maintain a stable
product.
Samba offers much more compile options and thus a large variety of usage, which makes it
difficult to support. The compile options that are used for HP CIFS server can be seen in
/opt/samba_src/samba/source/configure_hp_options.sh.
HP does as well provide the compiled Samba binaries for HP-UX on http://www.samba.org
(External) for the latest Samba-version. But HP does not deliver Support for those binaries
Release Differences
The major differences in the three releases available for download as the types of Windows
servers and clients that are supported. The clients that are supported by HP CIFS Server are as
follows:
A.02.03.06 – Windows XP, Windows NT, Windows 2000/2003
A.02.04.04 – Windows XP, Windows NT, Windows 2000/2003/2003R2/2008, Vista
A.03.01.01 – Windows XP, Windows NT, Windows 2000/2003/2003R2/2008/2008R2, Vista,
Windows 7.
HP CIFS Client A.02.02.02 has not been tested and is therefore not supported with Windows
Server 2008 or 2008 R2.
Download
You can download HP CIFS Server from www.software.hp.com ”Internet ready and
networking”.
Documentation
For those who are at their beginning of their samba-career we would recommend the following
article, which is not essential to Samba3 but gives a very good understanding what samba is
about: http://us4.samba.org/samba/docs/SambaIntro.html (HP external)
For the HP CIFS Server product we will deliver an Administrator’s Guide which will be on
www.docs.hp.com meanwhile the best sources are:
Samba documentation pages http://us4.samba.org/samba/docs/ (HP external)
Book references for Samba3:
The Official Samba-3 HOWTO and Reference Guide: (Prentice Hall PTR (October 22, 2003)
ISBN: 0131453556 )