Hello, HP-UX 11.0, N4000, Samba version 2.0.7 I have 2 questions: 1.- What are the benefits of having CIFS instead of Samba? the HP-Support? 2.- When using Samba to save a file created in a Windows application (Word, Excel, etc.) to a HP-UX filesystem, is there any way to switch from binary to ascii (similar to an ftp session)? Thanks in advance, Luis
The advantage to using CIFS vs. Samba is that HP supports the CIFS package, and includes some extra software with it (Sharity?). I use Samba here and compile it myself, so I can't really talk about using CIFS. Also, I think that CIFS is based on Samba version 2.0.6, while Samba is up to version 2.2.1.
As for the ascii/binary issue, Samba doesn't try to figure out what to do because it is too hard to figure out the right thing to do. Here is a recent post discussing the issue:
