Preface

The Solaris CIFS Administration Guide describes the Solaris^TM Common Internet File System (CIFS) service. This book is intended for system administrators and end users. Both Solaris Operating System (Solaris OS) and Windows system administrators can use this information to configure and integrate the Solaris CIFS service into a Windows environment. In addition, system administrators can configure the identity mapping service. Finally, the chapter about the Solaris CIFS client is primarily intended for Solaris users who would like to mount CIFS shares. The Solaris CIFS client chapter also includes tasks to be performed by a system administrator.

Note - This Solaris release supports systems that use the SPARC^® and x86 families of processor architectures: UltraSPARC^® , SPARC64, AMD64, Pentium, and Xeon EM64T. The supported systems appear in the Solaris 10 Hardware Compatibility List at http://www.sun.com/bigadmin/hcl. This document cites any implementation differences between the platform types.

In this document these x86 related terms mean the following:

“x86” refers to the larger family of 64-bit and 32-bit x86 compatible products.
“x64” points out specific 64-bit information about AMD64 or EM64T systems.
“32-bit x86” points out specific 32-bit information about x86 based systems.

For supported systems, see the Solaris Express Developer Edition Hardware Compatibility List at the BigAdmin web site.