Step 3: Configuring the HP CIFS Client

Update the domain variable with the name of the NT domain to which the client will belong. This step is recommended, but not required.

domain = hpnet_dom

Configure Internationalized Clients.

The CIFS Client is designed to work with a variety of internationalized clients and servers. It can use Unicode to transmit multi-byte characters on the network, or any of several character encoding tables located in /etc/opt/cifsclient/unitables. See the README file in that directory for an index of the tables.

Each table is a CharMap file which can be configured for encoding file and directory names on the client or server (file contents are left untouched). The character set displayed on the CIFS Client console is configured with the parameter clientCharMapFile, which selects any one of the many character mapping files provided with the product. Character translations for communications with CIFS Servers can be done either in Unicode or through the configuration parameter serverCharMapFile, which also is used to select a character mapping file. Use of Unicode is turned on and off with the useUnicode parameter.

The default settings in cifsclient.cfg are:

serverCharMapFile = "/etc/opt/cifsclient/unitables/unimapCP437.cfg";
clientCharMapFile = "/etc/opt/cifsclient/unitables/unimap8859-1.cfg";

If, for example, your CIFS Client is configured as a Japanese system using the Shift-JIS locale, and it is connected to a Japanese CIFS Server that also uses Shift-JIS, you would configure the following:

serverCharMapFile = "/etc/opt/cifsclient/unitables/unimapShiftJIS.cfg";
clientCharMapFile = "/etc/opt/cifsclient/unitables/unimapShiftJIS.cfg";

Authentication Level

The configuration parameter, authenticationLevel, should be set to ntlm or kerberos. See “HP CIFS Authentication Using Kerberos” for details.

HP recommends that no other configuration modification be made to this file. Because of limitations of the Windows file system, however, two configuration settings must be carefully considered for your operating environment: execMapping and caseSensitive. These are discussed in Configration File Chapter. Also, see the discussion of case sensitivity in the HP CIFS Server manual in the section “Other Samba Issues.”