HP CIFS Client A.01.09 Administrator's Guide, August 2003

Introduction to the HP CIFS Client
Introduction to HP CIFS
Chapter 116
HP CIFS uses the CIFS protocol from the HP-UX machines, which
enables directories from HP-UX servers to be mounted on to Windows
machines and vice versa.
PAM NTLM
The HP-UX PAM subsystem gives system administrators the flexibility
of choosing any authentication service available on the system to
perform authentication. The framework also allows new authentication
service modules to be plugged in and made available without modifying
the applications.
The PAM framework, libpam, consists of an interface library and
multiple authentication service modules. The authentication service
modules are a set of dynamically loadable objects invoked by the PAM
API to provide a particular type of user authentication.
NT LAN Manager (NTLM) is the protocol by which CIFS clients are
authenticated by CIFS servers. PAM NTLM is a PAM module that
implements the NTLM protocol. It enables users logging in to an HP-UX
system to have access to CIFS-mounted file systems without having to
use the cifslogin command.