Under some circumstances browsing \\afs with explorer.exe is equivalent
to NET VIEW.  Its not when you try to launch it with Start Menu->Run.
We do not implement the RPC services necessary for all of the queries
that Windows want to perform.  This is part of the CIFS Remote
Administration Protocol.

The next time I issue a status report I will clarify "browsing with NET
VIEW".

Jeffrey Altman



Christopher Allen Wing wrote:
> Thanks.  It wasn't clear to me whether this was a known problem or if
> something was broken in my system's configuration.
> 
> I was looking at documentation such as your status report from December:
> 
>     
> https://www.secure-endpoints.com/talks/OpenAFS-Windows-Dec-2005-Status-Report.pdf
> 
> 
> which seemed to suggest that this would work:
> 
>     1.6.3. Windows Explorer Shell
>      - AFS UNC paths now supported in the Explorer
>      - Browsing of the "AFS" Server is now supported (limited to 13
>        character names)
> 
> 
> Maybe you should update the 'afs-issues.txt' file to explicitly state
> that browsing \\afs from the Explorer is known to be unreliable.  (while
> 'net view \\afs' should always work, right?)
> 
> 
> As long as referring to complete UNC paths for drive mapping works OK
> this isn't a big deal for us.  I was just afraid that I had broken
> something because I was able to browse \\afs with the Explorer when I
> first installed OpenAFS, but then it failed later on.
> 
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Chris Wing
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> 
> 
> 
> On Tue, 16 May 2006, Jeffrey Altman wrote:
> 
>> We do not have a fully implementation of the Remote Administration
>> Protocol.   This issue is listed in the "issues" list distributed
>> with the release.
>>
>> Jeffrey Altman
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