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

Contents
About this document....................................................................................10
Intended audience..................................................................................................................10
New and changed information in this edition.............................................................................10
Typographical conventions.......................................................................................................10
Publishing history....................................................................................................................10
Document organization...........................................................................................................11
HP welcomes your comments...................................................................................................12
1 Introduction to the HP CIFS Server...............................................................13
HP CIFS Server description and features....................................................................................13
Features............................................................................................................................13
Samba open source software and HP CIFS Server..................................................................14
Flexibility..........................................................................................................................14
HP CIFS Server documentation: Printed and Online.....................................................................14
HP CIFS documentation roadmap.............................................................................................15
HP CIFS Server file and directory roadmap................................................................................16
2 Installing and configuring HP CIFS Server....................................................18
HP CIFS Server requirements and limitations...............................................................................18
HP CIFS Server installation requirements...............................................................................18
HP CIFS Server memory requirements...................................................................................18
Software requirements........................................................................................................18
Swap space requirements...................................................................................................18
Memory requirements.........................................................................................................19
Step 1: Installing HP CIFS Server software..................................................................................19
An example......................................................................................................................20
Step 2: Running the configuration script.....................................................................................20
Step 3: Modify the configuration..............................................................................................21
Configuration modification..................................................................................................21
Configure case sensitivity....................................................................................................21
Configure DOS attribute mapping........................................................................................22
Configuring Print Services for HP CIFS Version A.03.01.03......................................................22
Configuring a [printers] share.........................................................................................22
Creating a [printers] share..............................................................................................23
Setup Server for automatically uploading printer driver files................................................23
Setup Client for automatically uploading of printer drivers..................................................24
Publishing printers in an MS Windows 2000/2003/2008 ADS Domain..................................24
Setting up HP CIFS Server for publishing printers support....................................................24
Publishing printers from a Windows client.........................................................................25
Verifying that the printer is published...............................................................................26
Commands used for publishing printers............................................................................27
Searching printers....................................................................................................27
Removing a printer...................................................................................................27
Re-Publishing a printer...............................................................................................27
Setting up Distributed File System (DFS) support.....................................................................27
Setting up a DFS Tree on a HP CIFS Server.......................................................................28
Setting up DFS links in the DFS root directory on a HP CIFS Server.......................................28
MC/ServiceGuard High Availability Support.........................................................................29
Step 4: Starting HP CIFS Server................................................................................................29
Starting and stopping daemons individually..........................................................................30
Configuring an automatic start at system boot........................................................................30
Stopping and restarting daemons to apply new settings..........................................................30
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