-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Jeffrey Altman wrote: > Lars Schimmer wrote: >> Hi! >> >> We are still running a Win 2003 AD server as krb5 auth server and >> managing the AD user profiles (which resist inside of OpenAFS). >> >> I think about updating to Win2008 RC2 server (and clients from WinXP to >> Windows7 - available in MSDNAA for 1 week now). > > Availability in MSDN is for developers to have access to the final > builds in order to finish testing functionality and certification > of their products. It is not intended for production use.
Right, pre-releases like RC and beta versions are not for production use. Windows Server 2008 R2 is yet still in beta or RC state - but server 2008 is production ready and I think aobut "why use 2008 if 2008 R2 will be available soon". Translation of system will take some more time at all. > Until the official release date I would not deploy these OS images > in a production environment. Most vendors (including OpenAFS) have > not announced releases that are 100% compatible with Windows 7. Windows 7 was official released (at least to MSDN and MSDNAA and system builders). The image in MSDNAA is the official release version of Windows 7 - I do not see any reason why not deploy it in a production enviroment (after testing it). > Windows 7 requires multiple data stream support in order to be able > to execute programs and data files that contain scripts. (.EXE, .CHM, > Office docs, ...) AFS does not support multiple data streams and > therefore there is no "Zone.Identifier" stream. You should > perform broad testing of your apps on Win7 in order to determine what > works. The streams strikes back again. Did not know Windows 7 depending on streams in filesystem. So far I determined some small problems only. Most annoying one is: some .exe does not run out of OpenAFS space, some others do. Alternative streams could be a good explanation to this behaviour. Btw, any plans about multiple streams in OpenAFS? I know that point was in discussion, once. >> But our server is yet 32bit, the 2008RC2 will be 64bit. >> Anyone got any information about compatibility with Server 2008 and/or >> 64bit server with (old) clients 32bit, krb5 and OpenAFS ? > > You can mix 64-bit server with 32-bit clients. > > Single DES encryption is disabled by default in 2008 R2. You will > need to re-enable DES encryption in order to use 2008 R2 Active > Directory as a krb5 KDC for use with OpenAFS. Thank you. That was one of the points I wanted to know ahead of testing it - I guess you saved me some hour of work. With all this in mind - I guess I set up a second public win7 test system for our users and play with a testing ground with win 2008 server. After Win 2008 R2 has gone released - switch AD over and afterwards maybe Win7. > Jeffrey Altman MfG, Lars Schimmer - -- - ------------------------------------------------------------- TU Graz, Institut für ComputerGraphik & WissensVisualisierung Tel: +43 316 873-5405 E-Mail: [email protected] Fax: +43 316 873-5402 PGP-Key-ID: 0x4A9B1723 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAkqWKK4ACgkQmWhuE0qbFyPpeQCdHlo9zyY3BzfdMgplrZL7Jzr4 figAnR7Bu1IDsEolnnS4CRJSGIrkEs3D =ithp -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ OpenAFS-info mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openafs.org/mailman/listinfo/openafs-info
