HP CIFS Server Administrator Guide Version A.03.01.03 (5900-2006, October 2011)

Samba open source software and HP CIFS Server
Since the HP CIFS Server source is based on Samba open source software, it gains the advantages
of the evolutionary growth and improvement efforts of Samba developers around the world. In
addition, HP CIFS Server also provides the following support:
• Includes Samba defect fixes and features only when they meet expectations for enterprise
reliability.
• Provides HP developed defect fixes and enhancement requests for HP customers.
• Source is compiled and tuned specifically for the HP-UX platform and integrated with the latest
HP-UX environments.
• Adds customized scripts and Serviceguard templates for HP-UX environments.
• Provides documentation specifically for HP-UX users.
Flexibility
In order to accommodate a great variety of environments, HP CIFS Server provides many features
with hundreds of configuration options. Various management tools are available to establish and
control CIFS attributes. Chapter 13, “Tool Reference”, explains the management tools. Chapter 2,
“Installing and Configuring the HP CIFS Server”, discusses the installation and configuration process.
You must first understand the deployment environment and choose the appropriate features for
your server. The concept of “Samba Domain”, “Windows Domain”, and “Unified Domain” models
was developed to assist in deploying HP CIFS Server based on the particulars of various popular
network environments. Hence, Chapter 9, “HP CIFS Deployment Models”, describes each model
and the relevant configuration parameters required to establish servers in each deployment model.
Windows domain concepts are applied within the deployment models. HP CIFS Servers can
participate in either older NT style or newer Windows 2003/Windows 2008 style domains.
Chapter 4, “NT Style Domains”, describes how an HP CIFS Server can participate in an NT style
domain. Chapter 5, “Windows 2003 and Windows 2008 Domains”, describes how an HP CIFS
Server joins a Windows 2003 or a Windows 2008 domain as an ADS domain member server.
HP CIFS Server manages a given configuration using a configuration file, /etc/opt/samba/
smb.conf (by default) which contains configuration parameters set appropriately for the specific
installation. HP CIFS Server must also maintain internal data (including Trivial Data Base (TDB))
files and log files in the /var/opt/samba directory (by default). See Table 1-2, Table 4 (page
17), for the full HP CIFS Server product layout.
HP CIFS Server documentation: Printed and Online
The set of documentation that comprises the information you will need to explore the full features
and capabilities of the HP CIFS product consists of non-HP books available at most technical
bookstores, and this printed and online manual HP CIFS Server Administrator's Guide available
on the following web site:
http://www.docs.hp.com
A list of current recommended non-HP Samba documentation is:
• The Official Samba-3 HOWTO and Reference Guide by John H. Terpstra and Jelmer R.
Vernooij, Editors, ISBN: 0-13-145355-6.
• Samba-3 By Example Practical exercises to Successful Deployment by John H. Terpstra, ISBN:
0-13-147221-6.
• Using Samba, 2nd Edition Robert Eckstein, David Collier-Brown, Peter Kelly and Jay Ts.
(O'Reilly, 2000), ISBN: 0-596-00256-4..
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