HP CIFS Server Administrator's Guide Version A.03.01.04 (5900-2303), April 2012

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Contents

About this document....................................................................................10

Intended audience..................................................................................................................10

New and changed documentation 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 the 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.03.01.04.......................................................23

Configuring a [printers] share.........................................................................................23

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 the HP CIFS Server...........................................................................................29

Starting and stopping daemons individually..........................................................................30

Configuring automatic start at system boot............................................................................30

Stopping and re-starting daemons to apply new settings.........................................................30

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