Samba 3.0.10 vs. cifs 2.03

[John Jimenez]

Can someone tell me the difference between these two? Should I run one over the other? Should I run both of them?

Last year I tried to convert my NFS over to SAMBA. I installed, configured, and tested it successfully on my HP-UX 11.11 RP7420. I tried to get the programmers on board to migrating their scripts to utilize this between my HP-UX and windows servers, but of course their line of thought was why fix what isn't broken.

But now they are having issues running installing an old version of NFS on this 64 bit server. So now is a great time to suggest using cifs.

I currently have the following installed on my Server
=> #swlist | grep -i cifs
B8724AA A.02.02.02 HP CIFS Client
B8725AA A.02.03.02 HP CIFS Server
I was going to check upgrades to cifs and found this on another thread.
http://hpux.connect.org.uk/hppd/hpux/Networking/Misc/samba-3.0.10/

Should I use one over the other? or both? whats the difference?

[John Jimenez]

F.Y.I. This is for clarification of what I typed in previously. SQl dba's are having trouble installing the old NFS on a newer Integrity Server running Windows. So they cannot get data from the RP7420 to these new Windows Servers. This is why I think itwould be a good time to switch over from NFS to cifs/samba

[Heironimus · Accepted solution]

HP CIFS Server is HP's packaged, supported build of Samba with a few patches. I would download the latest CIFS Server package from HP's software site and use that. Samba 3.0.10 is probably far too old to have any advantage over HP's current packages.

[Steven E. Protter]

Shalom,

CIFS is compiled by HP. The source of the code is Samba. It is ported and changed slightly to work properly with HP-UX systems.

HP conducts extensive quality control testing to make sure functionality from Samba works in its CIFS product. They try to resolve any bugs they find with code changes.

Because of the Quality Assurance testing, I recommend using CIFS from HP available at http://software.hp.com

SEP

[John Jimenez]

Thank you SEP and Heironimus. One last question. A couple of years ago I installed cifs client 2.02.02 and cifs server 2.03.02. Today I looked and it still looks like the client is the same and server has only slightly been enhanced from 2.03.02 to 2.03.04. the samba 3.0.10 on the hpux.connect.org site looks recent and is dated Oct 2008.

Do you know if the cifs on HPUX 11.11 on PA RISC RP7420 running will work okay with HP Integrity RX6000 running Windows 64 bit?

[Heironimus]

The CIFS Client and CIFS Server are actually based on two largely unrelated pieces of software - the server component is built on Samba, the client on Sharity. The similarity in HP's version numbers is probably arbitrary. I think you should update to the current server package, since it may have additional bug/compatibility and security fixes.

A while back I was able to have Windows Server 2003R2 x86 clients mount shares from HP CIFS Server without issue. There weren't any Itanium or x86-64 systems there, though.

[OldSchool]

if its available on Windows / Intergrity, did they look at Windows Services for Unix, which has NFS in it?

[John Jimenez]

Thank you very much. I requested access to the integrity so I can begin to set up. I might just one day get rid of NFS after all :)

[John Jimenez]

Hi Old School. Thats the problem, they installed a really old Reflections 9 or 10 version that would not work.... maybe that version is not 64 bit compatible.

Last year I purchased several licenses for Reflections 14 NFS when they upgraded their prolients, but their scripts would not run.

To tell you the truth for a few reasons I really do not like NFS. The CIFS seemed more secure and might even be more reliable, so now that it broke, I finally can push cifs.

As suggested I am going to test with cifs 2.03 instead of the Samba 3.0.10 and instead of any version of NFS.