HP CIFS Windows 2000 Interoperability (October 2002)

CIFS/9000 and Windows 2000 Interoperability

Hewlett-Packard

Chapter 1 Introduction

CIFS/9000 is HP’s Common Internet File System (SMB) distributed file system that runs on

HP-UX 11. CIFS/9000 is HP’s strategic HP-UX and Windows interoperability platform, and

is an important component of the HP Multi-OS platform proposition.

As with most industry Windows interoperability products, CIFS/9000 is based upon Windows

NT4.0 technology. Microsoft Windows is the dominant desktop platform. Updates to new

releases are often triggered by new desktop client features. However, since customers cannot

update all their systems at once, the new Microsoft releases interoperate with previous

platforms (in this case NT4.0). This allows customers to continue to use CIFS/9000

enterprise level UNIX servers for robust and mission-critical file serving while also taking

advantage of the new client management and domain administration features available with

Windows 2000 clients and servers.

CIFS/9000 Server integrates well with Windows 2000 because of the NT4.0 compatibility

design. HP is evaluating and engineering additional Windows 2000 integration features for

CIFS/9000. Coinciding with this effort, we can examine how the current NT4.0-based product

currently integrates into a Windows 2000 domain, and recommend integration procedures

and configurations. The areas that will be covered in this paper are:

• CIFS/9000 Features and Benefits Overview

• Windows 2000 Mixed Domain Mode versus Native Domain Mode

• NTLM Authentication versus Kerberos Authentication

• CIFS/9000 Integration into Active Directory

• Name Address Resolution

• CIFS/9000 Integration with Windows 2000 DFS