Michael Niksch wrote:
> Changes to the Unix sources are going to result in a 1.3.75 release in > the either today or tomorrow. If you have a chance to test the latest > daily builds please do so: > > http://web.mit.edu/~jaltman/Public/OpenAFS/
I conclude that personally, you are more interested in whether the latest Windows code is still working. Well, 1.3.7402 (20041207) installed and seems to be working for me. Hard to say more that quickly.
Windows is my area of concern. I don't work on Unix and cannot speak for it.
There are a few details that bother me, though. Whenever I update my client, I have to tell the installer that I do not want freelance mode, and that I do not want DNS lookups, but that I do want integrated login. It would be nice if the installer just detected and kept my current settings.
This is a limitation of the current NSIS installer. You are free to make a request to [EMAIL PROTECTED] requesting the changes. The NSIS installer is supported by Rob Murawski. I am sure that he will look into improving that installer as his time permits.
What also puzzles me is that my \\afs folder shows all cell mount points abbreviated to 12 characters. This looks like a strange remainder from the 8.3 filename.ext days.
Browsing the server, AFS, does indeed result in only 13 characters being displayed per share name. This is due to the fact that the SMB Server
implemented within the AFS Client Service does not support UNICODE and
there is restricted to the lengths provided in the non-UNICODE form of
the SMB protocol.
Even weirder is the fact that the client will enter a cell if I type just enough characters of its name to make it unique, and that all characters after the 12th are completely ignored.
This is not weird, the AFS Client Service will treat any unique prefix of an entry in the CellServDB file as a valid alias for the CellServDB entry.
Characters after the 13th byte are not ignored. If you view the contents of \\AFS\all\ which is a directory, then you will see the
full mountpoint or symlink names.
If IBM would like to financially sponsor the development of a UNICODE aware version of the AFS Client SMB Server, it would be greatly appreciated.
Jeffrey Altman
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