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HP-UX 11i Version 2 June 2007 Release Notes

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Disk and File Management
HP CIFS Server
Chapter 6
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Documentation
For more information, refer to the following documentation, which can be found at
http://docs.hp.com/en/netcom.html (navigate to CIFS):
• User Manual: HP CIFS client A.02.02 Administrator’s Guide
• Product Release Note: HP CIFS Client A.02.02 Release Note
• Product Release Note: HP CIFS Client A.02.02.01 Release Note
• Manpages for the HP CIFS Client:
cifsclient (1M), cifsdb (1M), cifslist (1), cifslogin (1), cifslogout (1), cifsmount (1M),
cifsumount (1M), mount_cifs (1M), umount_cifs (1M)
Obsolescence
Not applicable.
HP CIFS Server
HP CIFS Server is a SMB/CIFS-based product on HP-UX systems. It enables HP-UX
systems to interoperate with PC clients running Microsoft Windows NT, XP, 2000/2003
and HP-UX machines running HP CIFS Client software. The HP CIFS Server provides
file sharing, printer access and authentication services to CIFS clients.
Summary of Change
The HP CIFS Server 3.0g version A.02.03.01 software is based on Samba 3.0.22 with
3.0.23 selected fixes. It is a fix release that provides fixes in addition to enhancements
provided in HP CIFS Server 3.0f version A.02.03.
HP CIFS Server 3.0f version A.02.03 provides the following enhancements:
• Winbind code has been re-designed to support the non-blocking, asynchronous
request/reply behavior with the exception of user and group enumeration. With this
new enhancement, winbind provides better scalability in large domain
environments and on high latency networks.
• TDB Memory Map Support:
This release supports performance enhancements which include enabling the
configuration parameter use mmap to take advantage of fixed size memory map
access of CIFS’s Trivial Database (TDB) files. The mechanism and number of TDB
files using memory-mapped access has been tuned respective of the OS (HP-UX 11i
v2 PA-RISC or 11i v2 Itanium-based).
For detailed information on changes and defect fixes, refer to the HP CIFS Server
Release Notes, available at http://docs.hp.com/en/netcom.html (navigate to CIFS).