HP CIFS Client A.02.01 Release Notes, April 2005

HP CIFS Client A.02.01
Announcement
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1 HP CIFS Client A.02.01
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 systems. 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 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, HP-UX, and other CIFS clients); it emulates 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.