This bit me, badly, when we stored PC home directories in AFS (through a
Samba gateway service).
MS Office documents tend to rely on byte range locks. AFS does not support
byte range locks. What's worse (at least under SunOS/Solaris), the AFS
client returns a success value to the calling program - while printing a
warning on the system console.
> Date: Mon, 24 Jul 2000 13:01:32 PDT
> From: "Glew, Andy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: "'[EMAIL PROTECTED]'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: AFS problemswith MS Outlook.PST files
>
> Just a short note: apparently it is not a good idea to place
> a Microsoft Outlook 2000.PST Personal Folders file on an AFS
> disk. Repeated data corruption, requiring Inbox Repair Tool.
>
> I'm not terribly surprised. I'm guessing different lock semantics.
> But, I am wondering if anyone has a list of such compatibility
> errors.
>
> Config info:
>
> NT4
> Outlook 2000
> AFS Client for Windows v3.4a
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