HP CIFS Client A.02.02.03 Administrator's Guide

2 Installing, Configuring, and Using the HP CIFS Client
This chapter describes the procedures for installing HP CIFS Client software on your system.
It contains the following sections:
• “Overview of HP CIFS Client Installation and Configuration” (page 14).
• “Step 1: Checking HP CIFS Client Installation Prerequisites” (page 14).
• “Step 2: Installing HP CIFS Client and PAM Software” (page 15).
• “Step 3: Configuring the HP CIFS Client” (page 15).
• “Step 4: Starting and Stopping the HP CIFS Client Daemon” (page 16).
• “Using the HP CIFS Client” (page 16).
• “Automatic Mounting of CIFS Filesystems” (page 19).
• “Name Resolution: NetBIOS Name Service, WINS, DNS, IP Configuration” (page 20).
• “HP CIFS Client Files and Directories” (page 20).
Overview of HP CIFS Client Installation and Configuration
Installation of the HP CIFS Client includes checking installation prerequisites, loading the HP CIFS
Client filesets using the swinstall(1M) utility, and completing HP CIFS configuration procedures.
The CIFS Client and PAM NTLM products are delivered in the same bundle, packaged for installation
via HP Software Distributor (SD). HP recommends that both products be installed at the same time.
This is not a requirement as each one can also be installed and run as a standalone product. To
install and remove software, use the HP-UX commands swinstall(1M) and swremove(1M).
Detailed information on these commands are provided in the HP-UX man pages.
The CIFS Client forces a system reboot during installation and removal. The CIFS Client modifies
the kernel so that it will recognize CIFS as a mountable filesystem.
When you install the bundles for the HP CIFS Client, there will be two products for you to install.
The first one is the HP CIFS client software and the second one (optional) is the NTLM PAM module.
NOTE: You can download the HP CIFS Client software, available at http://software.hp.com.
Step 1: Checking HP CIFS Client Installation Prerequisites
Prior to loading the HP CIFS Client software onto your system, check that you have met the following
hardware and software prerequisites:
1. The HP CIFS client runs on all HP workstations and Servers that are capable of running HP-UX
version 11.11 or later, in either 32-bit or 64-bit mode. No specific system patches are required
for the HP CIFS Client. See item 3 below.
2. The Kerberos libraries, libkrb5.sl and libcom_err.lib, must be present on your system. For
HP-UX version 11i (B.11.11) and future releases, these libraries should be on your system by
default as part of your base HP-UX operating system installation. However, on HP-UX version
11.0 (B.11.00), these libraries may not be present (check in /usr/lib). To acquire these
libraries, install the product PAM Kerberos, available at http://software.hp.com
3. Check that you have the latest PAM library patch. Patches are available at HP's online patch
catalogue, search for "libpam". You can use the swlist command to list software installed
on your system. If a General Release patch is listed, you can check its contents for PAM patches
with the following command:
swlist -l fileset _patch-name_ | grep -i pam
14 Installing, Configuring, and Using the HP CIFS Client