Samba v HP CIFS Server

[Jim Adamson]

I have had a lot of trouble today compiling samba 3.0.6 on hpux11.11. The binary on the Utah depot (samba 3.0.5) also did not work (I have added the openldap and libiconv packages).

I have downloaded the HP CIFS server (a.01.11.02) and it installed and runs with no problems. I see it is based on samba 2.2.10

I am new to HP CIFS, so is there any advantage using HP CIFS rather than Samba, apart from it works for me!

thanks
Jim

[Steve Steel]

Hi


CIFS=SAMBA Cifs is supported

Thus use it

http://www.software.hp.com/cgi-bin/swdepot_parser.cgi/cgi/displayProductInfo.pl?productNumber=B8725AA


Steve Steel

[Alzhy]

Yes... fairly big advantage.

It is an HP Supported Product and you can actually invoke your support agreement for help if things go wrong or if there are issues. Plus, you won't have to concern yourself with downloading thr sources/binaries -- the sources/contents you are not sure if it contains any "hidden" stuff (ie. trojas, etc..)

[Geoff Wild]

I prefer using HP's CIFS as it is supported by HP, less headaches...

Some minor benefits: it shows up in a swlist, standard install tree, SWAT built in, no need to worry about this library or that to compile...

http://www.software.hp.com/cgi-bin/swdepot_parser.cgi/cgi/displayProductInfo.pl?productNumber=B8725AA

And preview is here:

http://www.software.hp.com/portal/swdepot/displayProductInfo.do?productNumber=CIFSTP3

Rgds...Geoff

[Steven E. Protter]

Same product.

CIFS is HP's port.

In a month CIFS based on Samba 3.0.4 or higher is expected.

SEP

[Sundar_7]

Jim,

I am not going to add much here. CIFS is nothing but HP's implementation of M$ SMB.

There is a gap of about 6 months between the latest samba version available from the opensource community and the one available from HP.

This enables HP to throughly test the product. that means to you , you nolonger have to remember the compile time options, what to include and what not to include.

The vanilla CIFS install is good to go in most of the cases. CIFS TP is the latest unsupported version of Samba implementation

-- Sundar.