yes, with IBM AFS 3.6.2.39 it's the same problem. Andreas Voss
_________________________ Andreas Voss Informatikdienste / Basisdienste ETH-Zentrum SOW E 14 Sonneggstrasse 63 8092 Zuerich Telefon: 0041-1-632.48.48 Fax: 0041-1-632.17.41 -----Original Message----- From: Frank J. Cameron [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Dienstag, 24. September 2002 00:44 To: Voss, Andreas Subject: Re: Global Drives with Windows 2k As far as I know, the global drive functionality has not yet been fully implemented in OpenAFS. Did you try the newest patch release of the client from IBM (patch release 5: 3.6_2.39)? > Date: Mon, 23 Sep 2002 13:39:14 +0200 > From: "Voss, Andreas" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: [OpenAFS] Global Drives with Windows 2k > > Hello, > > I am supporting the windows (2000)machines in the student computer > rooms of our polytechnicum. All students are using roaming profiles on > the AFS. Everything was working well with the IBM AFS Client 3.6.2.26 > - until installing SP3 for Windows 2k: the redirecting of the > Directories Application Data and Desktop (working fine 'til then) > cannot be established without errors: Internet Explorer favorites > cannot be read or created and the Icon "Show Desktop" of the > Quick-Launch-Bar is not working any more. Only after un-redirecting > the Foldes Application Data to the roaming profile (%userprofile%) > makes favorites an the Show-Desktop-Icon working. But this is not a > could solution, because Logon/Logoff with unredirected Desktop-Folder > and Application Data takes long time. > > Because of this I tried to use the Open AFS Client 1.2.2.b. I also > would like to switch to this client, because our servers are / will be > switched to open afs too.=20 > > But this client is working worse - even with Windows 2000 without SP3. > The Global Drive ist loaded, but not usable. This an error message > appears: > > "Windows cannot create profile directory > Z:\users\a\avostud\profiles\hgglobal\win.pds. You will be logged on > with a local profile only. Changes to the profile will not be > propagated to the server. Contact your network administrator. "=20 > > and after this: > > "Windows cannot find the local profile and is logging you on with a > temporary profile. Changes you make to this profile will be lost when > you log off." > > But after Logon all the necessary directories on AFS are available and > I have full access according to my tokens, obtained when logging into > Windows. So it thought, the reason is a slow network connection. But > changing the group policy in that way, that slow network connections > are accepted, brings to solution of this problem. > > To mount the Profile-AFS-Drive in the Windows 2K Start-Script with=20 > > "net use z: \\%computername%-afs\ethz.ch /persistent:no" (working with > former AFS-Clients and Windows NT4) > > instead of using global drives also cannot load the Drive with error > message: > > "System error 53 has occurred. > > The network path was not found." > > I have seen, that this problem was discussed in former months, but > never I've seen a solution for this. Maybe I'm blind - then I would be > glad telling me, how to find it. > > Bye > > Andreas > _________________________ > > Andreas Voss > Informatikdienste / Basisdienste > ETH-Zentrum SOW E 14 > Sonneggstrasse 63 > 8092 Zuerich > > Telefon: 0041-1-632.48.48 > Fax: 0041-1-632.17.41 _______________________________________________ OpenAFS-info mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.openafs.org/mailman/listinfo/openafs-info
