HP CIFS Client A.02.02.03 Administrator's Guide

the CIFS Client console is configured with the parameter clientCharMapFile, which selects
any one of the many character mapping files provided with the product. Character translations
for communications with CIFS Servers can be done either in Unicode or through the
configuration parameter serverCharMapFile, which also is used to select a character mapping
file. Use of Unicode is turned on and off with the useUnicode parameter.
The default settings in cifsclient.cfg are:
serverCharMapFile = "/etc/opt/cifsclient/unitables/unimapCP437.cfg";
clientCharMapFile = "/etc/opt/cifsclient/unitables/unimap8859-1.cfg";
If, for example, your CIFS Client is configured as a Japanese system using the Shift-JIS locale,
and it is connected to a Japanese CIFS Server that also uses Shift-JIS, you would configure the
following:
serverCharMapFile =
"/etc/opt/cifsclient/unitables/unimapShiftJIS.cfg";
clientCharMapFile =
"/etc/opt/cifsclient/unitables/unimapShiftJIS.cfg";
3. Authentication Method
The authenticationMethod parameter should be set to ntlm or kerberos. See "Using
Kerberos with the HP CIFS Client" in Chapter 3 for details.
4. NTLM Password Encrytion
For servers with which Kerberos is not used, you can set the configuration parameter
ntlmEncryptionVersion to ntlm or ntlmv2 to determine which NTLM version to use.
See "Configuring Authentication" in Chapter 3 for details.
5. Server-Specific Configuration
The CIFS Client provides a method for over-riding global settings on a server-specific basis.
For example, if you set ntlmEncryptionVersion globally to NTLM, but you want to ensure
that server cifshostA uses only NTLMv2, you can create the following section (within the
enclosing "servers" section, see also the example at the end of the CIFS Client configuration
file):
cifshostA = { ntlmEncryptionVersion = ntlmv2;
);
Step 4: Starting and Stopping the HP CIFS Client Daemon
Use the cifsclient command to start and stop the HP CIFS client.
The syntax is:
cifsclient {start|stop}
cifsclient with no argument is equivalent to cifsclient start. If the HP CIFS client is
already running when you execute the command, you will get a message indicating it is already
up.
Use the stop option of the cifsclient command to stop the HP CIFS Client.
When the CIFS Client is shut down, it first attempts to unmount all of the CIFS shares. If any unmount
fails, the shutdown is not completed.
See cifsclient man page in Commandline Utilities chapter for details.
Using the HP CIFS Client
This section presents summary of how the HP CIFS Client can be used. The basic procedure is (1)
start the daemon, (2) mount shared directories, (3) log in to CIFS Servers. Following are examples
of these steps and some additional useful tips:
16 Installing, Configuring, and Using the HP CIFS Client