> Now, I am 100 percent sure that I was the only person accessing my
.PST
> file. For AFS's lock semantic limitations to cause a problem, it
implies
> that the Microsoft outlook application is actually multithreaded and
that
> multiple outlook threads are accessing the data at the same time. this
is
> possible; I have heard that M.S. apps are multithreaded, but I am
still
> slightly surprised.
We've seen other apps, wherein some subtler aspects of its function
would simply not operate properly if accessing AFS via the Transarc
client for NT, but would work properly if accessing AFS via Samba.
We conjectured that this may be a result of the sometimes-inaccurate
handling of UNC names by the AFS-NT client. Some apps may utilize
mapped-drive paths internally for some functions, and UNC paths for
others (modules provided by different programming teams), which creates
a case where only some portions of an app's features would be
incompatible with [Transarc-client-accessed] AFS.
