HP CIFS Client A.02.01 Administrator's Guide

Migrating From HP CIFS Client A.01 to A.02

Migrating from version A.01.* to A.02.* of HP CIFS Client

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Migrating from version A.01.* to A.02.* of HP

CIFS Client

Special Instructions For Users of HP CIFS Client

Versions A.01.*

NOTE These migration procedures are recommended for users who:

• may want to revert to an A.01.* version of the CIFS Client, or

• use a modiﬁed version of the CIFS Client conﬁguration ﬁle, or

• utilize mount or user entries in the CIFS Client database

The conﬁguration and user database ﬁles used in version A.01.* of CIFS

Client are not recognized by version A.02.*. If you use an A.01.* version

of the HP CIFS Client, and you have modiﬁed cifsclient.cfg, or if

there are user or mount entries in the CIFS Client database, then follow

these instructions below before updating any A.01.* version to any

A.02.* version of the CIFS Client.

Preserving Data From A.01 Installations

In the following procedure, you save your conﬁguration and database

ﬁles. An ascii listing of saved users and mounts in the database also is

saved so that you can re-create these entries under A.02. See the

reference for cifsdb, cifsmount, and cifslogin in the Chapter 5,

“Commandline Utilities,” on page 69 for detailed information on

managing database entries in version A.02.

Preserving these data also allows you to reuse it, if you decide to revert

to version A.01.

Follow the steps below to save your conﬁguration and database ﬁles:

Step 1. Create the backup directory:

$ cd /var/opt/cifsclient

$ mkdir A.01_migration_files