HP CIFS Server Administrator's Guide Version A.03.01.04 (5900-2303), April 2012

2 Installing and configuring the HP CIFS Server
This chapter describes the procedures to install and configure the HP CIFS Server software. It
contains the following sections:
• HP CIFS Server Requirements and Limitations
• Step 1: Installing HP CIFS Server Software
• Step 2: Running the Configuration Script
• Step 3: Modify the Configuration
• Step 4: Starting the HP CIFS Server
HP CIFS Server requirements and limitations
Prior to installing the HP CIFS product, check that your system can accommodate the following
product requirements and limitations.
HP CIFS Server installation requirements
The HP CIFS Server requires approximately 210 MB of disk space for installation on an HP-UX 11i
v2 system and 215 MB of disk space for installation on an HP-UX 11i v3 system. The HP CIFS
Server source code files requires approximately 36 MB of disk space.
NOTE: The CIFS Server source code files are not required for execution of HP CIFS Server. You
can choose not to install them or you can remove them after installation at the following location:
/opt/samba_src
HP CIFS Server memory requirements
An smbd process is usually created for each new connection. Each smbd requires about 4 MB of
system memory on HP-UX 11i v2.
The smbd process may now also allocate memory for specialized caching requirements as needed.
The size and timing of these memory allocations vary widely depending on the client type and the
resources being accessed. However, most client access patterns will not trigger such specialized
caching. System administrators should routinely monitor memory utilization in order to evaluate
this dynamic memory behavior. You may need to adjust HP-UX server memory configurations to
accommodate these changes while upgrading from previous versions.
See Chapter 12, "HP-UX Configuration for HP CIFS" in this manual for more detailed information.
Software requirements
The following describes software requirements:
• HP CIFS Server A.02.04.02 or later requires LDAP-UX Integration product, J4269AA, to be
installed.
• Kerberos v5 Client D.1.6.2 or later is required to support HP CIFS Server integration with a
Windows 2003 or Windows 2008 ADS Domain Controller (DC) on HP-UX 11i v2.
• Kerberos v5 Client E.1.6.2 or later is required to support HP CIFS Server integration with a
Windows 2003 or Windows 2008 ADS Domain Controller (DC) on HP-UX 11i v3.
Swap space requirements
Due to the one-process-per-client model of HP CIFS, perhaps the most stringent requirement imposed
on the system is that of swap space. HP-UX reserves a certain amount of swap space for each
process that is launched, to prevent it from being aborted in case it needs to swap out some pages
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