HP-UX HB v13.00 Ch-20 - CIFS
HP-UX Handbook – Rev 13.00 Page 6 (of 40)
Chapter 20 CIFS
October 29, 2013
smbmount (from the Samba product suite). Cifsclient offers more options than smbmount
e.g. the ability to validate users against the Windows-computer that offered the share
even with Kerberos Authentication and it behaves different. The HP CIFS Product Suite
includes a NTLM PAM module to authenticate unix users to against a Windows Domain
Controller by NTLM authentication.
(http://www.software.hp.com/portal/swdepot/displayProductInfo.do?productNumber=B8724AA )
HP CIFS Server B8725AA; current versions are as follows:
HP-UX 11.11:
A.02.03.06 based on Samba 3.0.22
A.02.04.04 based on Samba 3.0.30
HP-UX 11.23 and 11.31:
A.02.04.04 based on Samba 3.0.22
A.03.01.01 based on Samba 3.4.3
The url to download CIFS Server is:
http://www.software.hp.com/portal/swdepot/displayProductInfo.do?productNumber=B8725AA)
HP CIFS Server contains some extensions and product configuration that HP can support.
The various possibilities that samba offers by compiling it in different ways make it
nearly impossible to support. To guarantee this supportability the HP-release of HP CIFS
Server is delayed for approximately ½ years compared with the new samba releases. As
samba is bound to the GNU Public License (GPL; http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html ) HP
delivers the source code with HP CIFS Server as well.
Documentation
The documentation including Administration Guide and Release Notes can be found either at
http://docs.hp.com under “I/O Cards and Networking Software” or in the file system after
installing HP CIFS products:
for HP CIFS Client refer to: /opt/cifsclient/HP_Docs
for HP CIFS Server refer to /opt/samba/HP_docs.
Optionally you'll find information about CIFS server configuration in
http://us1.samba.org/samba/oreilly/using_samba/ (O’Reilly Book online) as well as in your unix
file system /opt/samba/swat/using_samba, which is the same book. The O’reilly book, which
came out as second edition recently: www.oreilly.com (ISBN: 0-596-00256-4). The excellent
help in swat can as well help to find the right parameter.
Please see list of weblinks at the end of this chapter too, at “Additonal Information”.
Differences between HP CIFS and Samba
The main difference between HP CIFS Server and Samba is that HP guarantees support for the
product. To guarantee this support the labs need to do extensive testing before a new release
comes out. This means on the other hand that the HP CIFS Server release is approx ½ years