4.0.0 HP PolyServe Software for Windows File Serving administration guide (T5392-96047, March 2010)

PolyServe Software should be deployed with Matrix File Shares, plus DFS for
connection load balancing and failover.
Many of these clients support the DFS interface; however, some of the operating
systems (namely Windows 95/98/ME/NT4, Mac SMB clients, and Linux) require
a software update to interoperate with DFS.
Windows clients
The following Microsoft Knowledge Base articles contain information about the
Windows clients.
• Windows 95/NT. The Windows 2000 AD/DFS client is recommended. See
Microsoft Knowledge Base article 288358 for more information.
• Windows 98/ME. The DS2003 client is recommended. A hotfix for Windows
98 is also needed. See Microsoft Knowledge Base article 555038. Microsoft
Knowledge Base article 276472, regarding Windows ME, may also be of interest.
Note that DOS and Windows 3.1 do not support DFS. While these clients can connect
directly to Matrix File Shares (MFS), they cannot take advantage of the high
availability and load balancing features provided by the Matrix File Shares/DFS
deployment model.
Linux clients
A software update for Linux is available at the following location:
http://us1.samba.org/samba/Linux_CIFS_client.html
A Linux client implemented in Java is available at this location:
http://jcifs.samba.org/
In addition to interoperating with DFS, Linux clients can also connect directly to Virtual
File Shares. (See Linux clients, page 32, for more information.)
NOTE:
The Samba smbcacls utility can be helpful for Linux clients that need to handle
Windows DACLs on PSFS filesystems. See the Samba smbcacls man page for
details.
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