HP CIFS Client A.02.02 Administrator's Guide

Installing, Conﬁguring, and Using the HP CIFS Client

Using the HP CIFS Client

Chapter 232

To mount:

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

To unmount, specify only the mout point:

$ umount /home/devl/source

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

The CIFS protocol allows access to mounted directories only to users

who have been authenticated by the server or a domain controller.

This is accomplished through the cifslogin command.

In the examples that follow, the share source has been conﬁgured on

the server. The joe 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 HP-UX login name at the Client. The account and password

pair used in cifslogin must exist on the system that performs the

authentication.

Further, if the server is an 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

joe

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 joe

Remote user joe’s password: *****