Hi Jeffrey,

I hope you and Sara are thriving!

Do you have a link to a compiled DAFS version of the Windows client I can test?

Thanks.

Kim


Jeffrey Altman wrote:
1.5.30 is the recommended production ready release of OpenAFS for
Microsoft Windows users.  It supports all Microsoft Windows operating
systems from Windows 2000 through Windows Vista including both 32-bit
and 64-bit architectures.  The 1.5.30 release continues the recent
efforts at optimizing the performance of the Windows client and
improving its scalability.

For UNIX, Linux, and MacOS X the recommend production ready release of
OpenAFS is 1.4.5.  The 1.5.30 Windows client is fully compatible with
all AFS server versions.

Please visit http://www.openafs.org/windows.html for up to date
information on the status of the OpenAFS for Windows client.

For Microsoft Windows:

This release fixes the following bugs present in 1.5.29:

 * CRITICAL: A buffer reference count leak was introduced in 1.5.29.
   This will cause the cache to fill and then no additional data will
   read nor written.

 * The Network Identity Manager AFS Provider 64-bit version would
   crash if an AFS token configuration was set to use krb524 or
   krb4 as the acquisition method.  KFW 64-bit includes neither
   krb524 nor krb4 support.

 * PTS auto-registration would fail if the Kerberos referrals
   protocol was used to obtain the Kerberos v5 service ticket for
   AFS.  This would occur if KFW 3.2.x is installed and there is
   no [domain_realm] entry for the AFS volume database service
   host domains.

 * [Primarily on Vista] After a system resume or a network adapter
   configuration change, communication with the AFS client service
   could be lost.

 * Fix "FollowBackupPath" to work with normal mount points.

 * [Vista] A deadlock condition has been observed after resuming
   from more than four hours of sleep.

Other changes resulting in performance enhancements include:

 * A new HKLM registry configuration option has been added
   to provide hints to the Network Identity Manager AFS
   Provider when new identities are created.  These hints
   inform the AFS provider which cells should be configured
   for an identity based upon the realm of the identity
   principal.  See the release notes for details on
   the HKLM\SOFTWARE\OpenAFS\Client\Realms\ key.

MIT Kerberos for Windows 3.2.2
 The recommended version of Kerberos for Windows to use with
 OpenAFS is version 3.2.2.  KFW can be downloaded from MIT or
 Secure Endpoints.  64-bit Windows installers for KFW are only
 available from Secure Endpoints.
    http://www.secure-endpoints.com/index.html#kfw

Known issues in the Windows client:
  . Beta versions of the Network Identity Manager AFS plug-in must
    be uninstalled prior to the installation of OpenAFS 1.5.26
  . Windows Vista does not support the WinHelp file format used
    by afscreds.exe and afs_control.exe.  A download is available
    from Microsoft.
  . On Windows Vista, afscreds.exe is not User Account Control (UAC)
    compatible and must be "Run as Administrator" in order to
    start/stop the AFS client service.


Please send reports of successful deployments to
[email protected] and report problems to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Jeffrey Altman
for the OpenAFS Gatekeepers


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