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

Contents
About this document....................................................................................10
Intended audience..................................................................................................................10
New and changed documentation in this edition........................................................................10
Typographical conventions.......................................................................................................10
Publishing history....................................................................................................................10
Document organization...........................................................................................................11
HP welcomes your comments...................................................................................................12
1 Introduction to the HP CIFS Server...............................................................13
HP CIFS Server description and features....................................................................................13
Features............................................................................................................................13
Samba open source software and HP CIFS Server..................................................................14
Flexibility..........................................................................................................................14
HP CIFS Server documentation: Printed and Online.....................................................................15
HP CIFS documentation roadmap.............................................................................................15
HP CIFS Server file and directory roadmap................................................................................17
2 Installing and configuring the HP CIFS Server...............................................19
HP CIFS Server requirements and limitations...............................................................................19
HP CIFS Server installation requirements...............................................................................19
HP CIFS Server memory requirements...................................................................................19
Software requirements........................................................................................................19
Swap space requirements...................................................................................................19
Memory requirements.........................................................................................................20
Step 1: Installing HP CIFS Server software..................................................................................20
An example......................................................................................................................21
Step 2: Running the configuration script.....................................................................................21
Step 3: Modify the configuration..............................................................................................22
Configuration modification..................................................................................................22
Configure case sensitivity....................................................................................................22
Configure for SMB2 Features...............................................................................................24
Configuring print services for HP CIFS version A.03.02.00......................................................24
Configuring a [printers] share.........................................................................................24
Creating a [printers] share..............................................................................................25
Setup Server for automatically uploading printer driver files................................................25
Setup Client for automatically uploading of printer drivers..................................................26
Publishing printers in an MS Windows 2003/2008 R2 ADS domain.......................................26
Setting up HP CIFS Server for publishing printers support....................................................26
Publishing printers from a windows client..........................................................................27
Verifying that the printer is published...............................................................................28
Commands used for publishing printers............................................................................29
Searching printers....................................................................................................29
Removing a printer...................................................................................................29
Re-Publishing a printer...............................................................................................29
Setting up Distributed File System (DFS) support.....................................................................29
Setting up a DFS Tree on a HP CIFS Server.......................................................................30
Setting up DFS links in the DFS root directory on a HP CIFS Server.......................................30
MC/ServiceGuard high availability support..........................................................................31
Step 4: Starting the HP CIFS Server...........................................................................................31
Starting and stopping daemons individually..........................................................................32
Configuring automatic start at system boot............................................................................32
Stopping and re-starting daemons to apply new settings.........................................................32
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