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Overview
The HP CIFS Product Suite
 

Hewlett-Packard's CIFS product suite provides a broad and flexible range of UNIX®-Windows® interoperability strategies for HP-UX: remote file sharing, printer access, and authentication services. The Common Internet File System (CIFS) is the native networking protocol in Microsoft® Windows.

The HP CIFS product suite consists of the HP CIFS Server, the HP CIFS Client, and PAM-NTLM.

The CIFS Client allows HP-UX systems to mount CIFS file systems, including Windows, the HP CIFS Server, Samba, and other CIFS servers, and access them locally, in a manner similar to NFS, but with greater security.
 
 
The HP CIFS Server provides access to its local filesystem to remote CIFS clients, including Windows, the HP CIFS Client, and others; Windows clients can also access the HP CIFS Server's printers.
 

The CIFS Client bundle also includes a Pluggable Authentication Module, PAM-NTLM, which allows HP-UX logins to be authenticated on a Windows domain.

The CIFS products include HP's industry-leading CIFS UNIX Extensions, which allow connections between CIFS Clients and Servers to utilize UNIX filesystem attributes within the CIFS protocol.

Availability

HP CIFS product suite is available at no-charge. It is supported on HP-UX versions 11.00, 11iv1 and 11iv2; it is available with HP-UX 11i Application Releases and is included in the HP-UX 11i Foundation Operating Environment. The CIFS bundles are also available via download at HP Software Depot (http://www.hp.com/go/softwaredepot)

For online access to product manuals, or for more information, visit docs.hp.com.
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Features and Benefits

HP CIFS Server: Features and Benefits
  • Based on the open source software Samba (3.x)
  • Full enterprise-level service and support from HP
  • Integration with HP-UX Kerberos and Netscape Directory Server for HP-UX
  • Can serve in multiple roles such as a Windows ADS Domain Member Server or as a Samba Domain Controller
  • Support for CIFS UNIX Extensions
  • Administration of HP-UX POSIX Access Control Lists (ACL) from Windows clients
  • High Availability (HA) CIFS server solution when used with HP-UX ServiceGuard
  • Web-based configuration and management using the Samba Web Administration Tool (SWAT)
  • Integrated with core HP-UX directory and file access control subsystems; thus, compatible with standard HP-UX file backup tools such as OmniBack and Legato. (All data and security information resides in the HP-UX file system.)
  • NTLMv2 and SMB Signing support
  • Winbind Support
HP CIFS Client: Features and Benefits
  • High level of UNIX-Windows integration through NFS-style mounting of shared filesystems on CIFS servers, such as Windows, Samba (including HP's CIFS Server), and other vendors' implementations of CIFS servers.
  • Industry standard protocols: TCP/IP, NetBIOS, CIFS, CIFS UNIX Extensions
  • Easy out-of-the-box startup: no manual configuration required
  • Flexibility: a rich set of tunable configuration options is provided
  • CIFS security: users authenticated at each server accessed
  • NTLM and NTLMv2 challenge-response authentication protocol: passwords are not transmitted over network
  • Kerberos authentication support; integration with system Kerberos credentials cache
  • SMB Signing support
  • Flexible name-resolution strategies: NetBIOS broadcast, WINS, DNS
  • CIFS oplock support
  • Large-file support (> 4GB)
  • Support for internationalized clients: localization, Unicode
HP PAM-NTLM: Features and Benefits
  • NTLM Pluggable Authentication Module (PAM) allows HP-UX to use CIFS domain controllers to authenticate logins (such as telnet sessions) on the HP-UX system. This makes possible global user ID and password authentication across both HP-UX and Windows, centralizing maintenance of HP-UX and Windows passwords.
  • PAM-NTLM provides easily-definable mapping between different HP-UX and CIFS user accounts.

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