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The HP CIFS server source is based on Samba, an Open Source
Software (OSS) project developed in 1991 by Andrew Tridgell in Australia.
This section includes a very brief introduction to the Samba product.
As there are many publications about Samba available online and
in most bookstores, HP recommends that you use these source materials,
some of which were written by Samba team members, for more detailed information
about this product. Open
Source Software | |
Samba has been made available to HP and other users under
the terms of the GNU Public License (GPL). This means that Samba
is “free software”; free, that is, of any copyright
restrictions. The goal of this type of software is to encourage
the cooperative development of new software. To learn about the GNU Public License, go to the following
web site: http://www.fsf.org. Samba
Server Description and Features | |
With the Samba suite of programs, systems running UNIX and UNIX-like
OSs are able to provide services using the Microsoft networking
protocol. This capability makes it possible for DOS and Windows
machines using native networking clients supplied by Microsoft to
access a UNIX file system and/or printers. As a user, you will see the UNIX file system as a drive-letter
or an icon in the “Network Neighborhood” and you
will be able to open files from inside your Windows program as if
they are stored on your local system. To accomplish this, Samba implements the Server Message Block
(SMB) networking protocol on top of NetBios over TCP/IP. For a complete discussion of Samba and its protocols, refer
to chapters 1 and 2, in Using Samba by Robert
Eckstein, David Collier-Brown and Peter Kelly To access the Samba web site, go to http://www.samba.org. Samba
Documentation: Printed and Online | |
When using the HP CIFS product, HP recommends that you refer
to Using Samba, by Robert Eckstein, David Collier-Brown and Peter
Kelly along with the supplemental HP CIFS product documentation
available in the /opt/samba/docs directory
shipped with the product. Using Samba is shipped
with the HP CIFS Server and can be found in /opt/samba/swat/using_samba.
Starting with this release, it will be available through SWAT. | | | |  | IMPORTANT: The book Using Samba describes
a previous version of Samba (V.2.0.4). However, much of the information
in Using Samba is applicable to this version
of the CIFS Server. Readers should always use the HP-provided Samba
man pages or the SWAT help facility for the most definitive information
on the HP CIFS server. | | | | |
Installing and Administering the HP CIFS Server will
also be available on the http://www.docs.hp.com/hpux/communications web
site. A list of current non-HP Samba documentation is shown below. Using Samba, Robert
Eckstein, David Collier-Brown and Peter Kelly. (O’Reilly,
2000), ISBN: 1-56592-449-5. Samba, Integrating UNIX and Windows by John D Blair
(Specialized Systems Consultants, Inc., 1998), ISBN: 1-57831-006-7. Samba in 24 Hours by Carter, Gerald and Richard
Sharpe. (SAMS, 1999), ISBN: 0-672-31609-9. Samba Administrator’s Handbook by Ed Brooksbank,
George Haberberger, and Lisa Doyle. (M&T Books, 2000),
ISBN: 0-7645-4636-8. Samba Black Book by Dominic Baines. (Coriolis, 2000),
ISBN: 1-57610-455-9. Samba Web site: http://www.samba.org/samba/docs.
| | | |  | NOTE: Please note that non-HP Samba documentation sometimes
includes descriptions of features and functionality planned for
future releases of Samba. The authors of these books do not always
provide information indicating which features are in existing releases
and which features will be available in future Samba releases. | | | | |
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