HP CIFS Client A.02.02.03 Administrator's Guide

Refer to the HP CIFS Client release notes for information about patch dependencies.
4. You must log in as a user with root privileges o perform the installation.
NOTE: If you are currently using an A.01.* version of the HP CIFS Client, read the “Migrating
from version A.01.* to A.02.* of HP CIFS Client” (page 28) before installing any A.02.* version.
Step 2: Installing HP CIFS Client and PAM Software
You must have root privileges to install software on your HP-UX system. Because the CIFS Client
contains a kernel module, the installation reboots the system upon completion.
Installing From CD
If you are installing HP CIFS Client and PAM software from CD, run swinstall, and select HP
CIFS Client or PAM NTLM (or both) from the CD ROM depot path.
Installing From a Software Depot File
If you are installing from a depot file, such as those downloadable from http://software.hp.com,
enter the following at the command line:
swinstall options -s /path/filename B8724AA
where
options is -x autoreboot=true -x mount_all_filesystems=false.
path must be an absolute path, it must start with /, for example, /tmp.
filename is the name of the downloaded depot file, usually a long name of the form:
B8724AA_A.02...HP-UX_B.11...32+64.depot
An Example
For example, if you attempt to install the HP CIFS Client bundle version A.02.01 on HP-UX 11i v2
system from a downloaded depot file, enter the command line as shown below:
swinstall -x autoreboot=true -x mount_all_filesystems=false \
-s /tmp/B8724AA_A.02.01_HP-UX_11.23_IA+PA.depot B8724AA
Step 3: Configuring the HP CIFS Client
The configuration file for the HP CIFS Client, /etc/opt/cifsclient/cifsclient.cfg, can be used as
delivered, with no modification of its default values.
Editing cifsclient.cfg
The file /etc/opt/cifsclient/cifsclient.cfg.default contains factory default settings. The user is urged
not to modify this file but to save it as a reference.
If appropriate, edit the file as described below.
1. To enable WINS lookups, set the parameternbnsWinsIp to the IP address of the WINS
server. See “Name Resolution: NetBIOS Name Service, WINS, DNS, IP Configuration”
(page 20) for details.
2. Configure Internationalized Clients.
The CIFS Client is designed to work with a variety of internationalized clients and servers. It
can use Unicode to transmit multi-byte characters on the network, or any of several character
encoding tables located in /etc/opt/cifsclient/unitables. See the README file in that directory
for an index of the tables.
Each table is a character map file which can be configured for encoding file and directory
names on the client or server (file contents are not affected). The character set displayed on
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