HP CIFS Client A.01.09.01 Release Notes, January 2004

HP CIFS Client A.01.09.01
Announcement
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1 HP CIFS Client A.01.09.01
Announcement
NOTE For the latest information on the HP CIFS Client, refer to the HP CIFS
product documentation in the Networking and Communications section
of the HP documentation website:
http://docs.hp.com/
CIFS is the native networking protocol on Microsoft Windows operating
system. The HP CIFS products for HP-UX provide a wide range of
integration strategies for HP-UX and Windows.
The HP CIFS Client enables the HP-UX host to mount directories shared
by remote CIFS servers (Windows, HP-UX, and even other server
platforms on which CIFS has been implemented).
The HP CIFS Server enables the HP-UX host to provide access to its own
shared directories by remote CIFS clients (Windows or HP-UX); it
emulates the Windows file and print services.
With these products, in a heterogeneous Windows and HP-UX network,
any system can be a client or server to any other system.
The HP CIFS Client bundle also includes PAM-NTLM, a “pluggable
authentication module” that allows HP-UX logins to be authenticated by
a centralized service on a CIFS domain.