HP CIFS Server

The HP CIFS Server product implements many Windows Server features on HP-UX. The Microsoft Common Internet File System (CIFS) protocol, sometimes called Server Message Block (SMB), is a Windows network protocol for remote file access. Because the HP CIFS Server gives HP-UX access to the CIFS protocol, it enables HP-UX systems to interoperate with PC clients running Microsoft Windows NT, XP, 2000/2003 and HP-UX machines running HP CIFS Client software. The HP CIFS Server provides file sharing, printer access and authentication services to CIFS clients.

Summary of Change

HP CIFS Server 3.0h version A.02.03.02 is delivered in the HP-UX 11i v2 December 2007 release. The product version A.02.03.02 is based on Samba 3.0.22 with 3.0.25 selected fixes; it mainly delivers two security fixes for CVE-2007-2447 (SSRT071424) and CVE-2007-2446 (SSRT071424), and the following enhancement:

Enhance the wbinfo tool with two new options, -c and -C, which can be used to display the total number of users or groups for a domain.

For detailed information on changes and defect fixes, refer to the HP CIFS Server Administrator's Guide and Release Notes, available at http://docs.hp.com/en/netcom.html (navigate to CIFS).

Impact

This release of HP CIFS Server provides security fixes and an enhancement.

Compatibility

There are no known compatibility issues.

Performance

The implementation of HP CIFS Server A.02.03.02 does not degrade performance.

Documentation

For more information, refer to the following documentation:

The following Samba books, which are provided with the HP CIFS Server product and are accessible through the Samba Web Administration Tool (SWAT) home page, or can be accessed directly at /opt/samba/docs/Samba-HOWTO-Collection.pdf and /opt/samba/swat/help from an HP CIFS Server system:
- Samba book, The Official Samba-3 HOWTO and Reference Guide
- Samba book, Samba-3 by Example
The following HP CIFS Server documents, which can be found at http://docs.hp.com/en/netcom.html (navigate to CIFS):
- HP CIFS Server 3.0g Administrator's Guide version A.02.03.01
- HP CIFS Server 3.0h Release Note version A.02.03.02

Obsolescence

Not applicable.