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

Installing, Conﬁguring, and Using the HP CIFS Client

Using the HP CIFS Client

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In this example, the share source, conﬁgured as a share on the HP

CIFS Server, is mounted by the CIFS Client using the directory

/home/devl/source as the mount point. The directory used as the

mount point must already exist.

To mount:

$ mount -F cifs buildsys:/source /home/devl/source

To unmount:

$ umount /home/devl/source

3. Access the shared directory via the mount point on the Client.

The HP CIFS Client allows access to mounted directories only on a

per-user basis. Therefore, each user must ﬁrst be authenticated by

the HP CIFS Server. This is accomplished through the cifslogin

command.

In this example, the share source has been mounted by the system

administrator. The root user on the Client wants to access the shared

directory on buildsys. This is ﬁrst attempted by changing directories

to the mount point, but without ﬁrst logging into the server (this

fails).

Then, by logging into buildsys with the cifslogin command, the

user is authenticated by buildsys and can access its shared source

directory through the CIFS Client’s mount point. Note that the user

name used to login to the CIFS Server can be different than the

current login name at the Client. The account and password pair

used in cifslogin must exist on the system that does the

authentication.

Further, if the CIFS Server is a HP-UX system, all users on the

Client that access the Server should have the same uid on both

systems, so that ﬁle ownership is consistent.

$ whoami

root

cd /home/dev1/source

sh: /home/dev1/source: not found

This fails because the user has not yet logged into the CIFS Server

buildsys.

$cifslogin buildsys root

Remote user root’s password: *****