CIFS/9000 Overview

CIFS/9000 Server is an HP product based on Samba that provides file and print services to CIFS clients. The server is an HP 9000 and the clients are usually Windows-based systems; however, the client could also be an HP 9000 or any system running CIFS client software. CIFS/9000 Client is used to access file and print services on a CIFS server. To an HP-UX user running CIFS/9000 Client software, the shares on CIFS/9000 Server look like UNIX filesystems whether they are on a UNIX server or a Windows server. The server could be an HP 9000 running CIFS/9000 Server, a Windows-based system, or any system running CIFS as a server. In this chapter, I'll cover only CIFS/9000 Server being accessed by a Windows-based system since that ...

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