CIFS Server Administrator's Guide Version A.03.02.00 (5900-2578, January 2013)

1 Introduction to the HP CIFS Server
This chapter provides a general introduction to this document, HP CIFS, information about Samba,
the Open Source Software suite upon which the HP CIFS server is based, HP enhancements to the
Samba source, along with the various documentation resources available for HP CIFS.
HP CIFS Server description and features
The HP CIFS Server product implements many Windows Servers features on HP-UX. The Microsoft
Common Internet File System (CIFS) protocol, sometimes called Server Message Block (SMB), is a
Windows network protocol for remote file and printer access. Because the HP CIFS Server product
gives HP-UX access to the CIFS protocol, HP CIFS Server enables HP-UX to interoperate in network
environments exposed to Windows clients and servers by means of a Windows native protocol.
The HP CIFS Server source is based on Samba, an Open Source Software (OSS) project first
developed in 1991 by Andrew Tridgell. Samba has been made available to HP and others under
the terms of the GNU Public License (GPL). The goal of GPL software is to encourage the cooperative
development of new software. To learn about the GNU Public License, refer to the web site at
http://www.fsf.org. A Samba team continues to update the Samba source. To learn about the
Samba team, visit their web site at http://www.samba.org.
Features
HP CIFS Server merges the HP-UX and Windows environments by integrating HP-UX and Windows
features as follows:
• Authentication Mechanisms and Secure Communication Methods including:
Netscape Directory Server/Red Hat Directory Service (NDS/RHDS) via LDAP◦
◦ Windows Active Directory Services (ADS)
◦ Kerberos, NTLMv2, and SMB Signing Support
◦ HP CIFS internal mechanisms to facilitate HP-UX and Windows compatibility such as
username mapping, winbind, and idmap_rid.
• File System Access Support
• Network Printer Access Support
• Domain Features and “Network Neighborhood” Browsing
HP CIFS Server A.03.02.00 release supports the following new features:
• Full support for SMB2
SMB2 within Samba is implemented with a brand new asynchronous server architecture,
allowing Samba to display the performance enhancements SMB2 brings to Microsoft networking
technology.
• Improved Printing Support
Print subsystem has been rewritten to use automatically generated RPCs and provides greater
compatibility with the Windows SPOOLSS print subsystem architecture, including export of
printer data via registry interfaces.
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