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

Introduction to the HP CIFS Client
HP CIFS Client Features
Chapter 1 19
Kerberos Authentication: Integration with System
Kerberos Cache
The CIFS Client supports the Kerberos authentication mechanism.
Kerberos is a secure, industry-standard authentication protocol. It
provides significant improvements over the older NTLM protocol
traditionally used by CIFS Clients and Servers. The CIFS servers in
your network must support Kerberos in order for you to take advantage
of Kerberos support in the HP CIFS Client. Kerberos must be properly
configured both on the HP-UX host on which the Client runs and on your
network.
An additional feature is that the HP CIFS Client is integrated with the
system Kerberos cache. If the HP-UX host uses PAM Kerberos or other
Kerberos-aware programs that utilize the system Kerberos cache, such
as kinit(1) , the CIFS Client can utilize these cached credentials to
provide automatic access to mounted CIFS servers without explicit
user-initiated authentication for each server.
AutoFS 2.3 Support for HP CIFS Client
The AutoFS is a service which is part of the HP ONC product set that
automatically mounts or unmounts filesystems with near- transparency
to the end users. The latest version of AutoFS 2.3 supports the mount
and unmount of the HP CIFS Client mounted filesystems. AutoFS 2.3
can automatically perform direct and indirect mounts of the HP CIFS
filesystems. AutoFS 2.3 only supports the HP CIFS Client with direct
and indirect map files, it doesn’t support CIFS Client with special or
executable map files, or with multiple (replicated) servers.
In order to provide HP CIFS Client AutoFS support, AutoFS 2.3 must be
installed and configured on the system. For detailed information on
installing and configuring AutoFS, please refer to “Configuring and
Administering AutoFS” in NFS Services Administrator’s Guide on
HP-UX at http://www.docs.hp.com.
NOTE AutoFS 2.3 support for HP CIFS Client applies only to HP-UX 11i
version 2. AutoFS doesn’t support HP CIFS Client on HP-UX release
11.0 and 11i version 1.