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System Management Guide: Communications and Networks

AIX Fast Connect for Windows Packaging and Installation

This section describes the AIX Fast Connect for Windows packaging images and installation requirements.

Packaging

Fast Connect packaging includes the following images:

Image Description
cifs.base Fast Connect Server Utilities
cifs.msg Fast Connect Server Messages
cifs.basic

  or

  cifs.advanced

Fast Connect Server (Windows only)

 

  Fast Connect Advanced Server (Windows and OS2)

These images contain the following filesets:

Image Fileset Fileset Description
cifs.base cifs.base.websm

cifs.base.smit

cifs.base.cmd

Fast Connect Web-based System Manager support

Fast Connect SMIT support

Fast Connect commands

cifs.msg cifs.msg Fast Connect Server messages (language is indicated by the fileset extension)
cifs.basic cifs.basic.rte Fast Connect Server files (Windows only)
cifs.advanced cifs.advanced.rte Fast Connect Advanced Server files (Windows and OS2)

Installation

AIX Fast Connect for Windows is installed on AIX Version 4.3.2 or higher. It requires that the following filesets are already installed and configured:

Also, AIX Version 4.3.2 IX85388 is required for sendfile API support.

In addition to these software requirements, Fast Connect requires approximately 50 MB of additional disk space. For further details, see the AIX Version 4.3 Installation Guide.

Once the installation is complete, the following files appear on the system:

File Type Path Description
cifsServer binary /usr/sbin Fast Connect Server daemon
cifsServerAdv binary /usr/sbin Fast Connect Advanced Server daemon
cifsPrintServer binary /usr/sbin Fast Connect Print File Server daemon
net binary /usr/sbin Fast Connect administration command
rc.cifs Script /etc Fast Connect start/stop shell script for inittab
cifsConfig ASCII /etc/cifs Fast Connect configuration file
cifsPasswd ASCII /etc/cifs Fast Connect user configuration file
README ASCII /etc/cifs Additional documentation for Fast Connect
cifsLog ASCII /var/cifs Fast Connect log file
cifsTrace* ASCII /var/cifs Fast Connect trace file
sm_smb.cat Message catalog /usr/lib/nls/msg Fast Connect message catalog (language indicated in file name extension)
Note: The cifsTrace file does not appear on the system once the installation is completed.

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