Michael Niksch wrote:
> 
> Based on the recommendation at the bottom of
> 
>> http://www.openafs.org/windows.html
> 
> I recently installed http://support.microsoft.com/kb/971421 on my
> Windows XP (32-bit) SP3 system. This fix installs mrxsmb.sys version
> 5.1.2600.5815 dated 2009-05-18. I did this when upgrading to OpenAFS
> 1.5.61, and I later upgraded to OpenAFS 1.5.62.
> 
> Without realizing a coincidence at first, I since had several strange
> experiences with my system.
> 
> (1) When waking up from hibernation, the system started to load the
> hibernation file, but then actually booted from scratch as if it had
> crashed while reactivating the saved state.
> 
> (2) Logging in a local (non-domain) user took extremely long.
> 
> (3) Today, I had a blue screen mentioning mrxsmb.sys.
> 
> I am not sure whether (1) and (2) are related to the hotfix, but (3)
> obviously is, so it might be worth keeping an eye on whether the fix
> provided by Microsoft and scheduled to be part of SP4 doesn't introduce
> new problems.

If you have problems with the hotfix, be sure to report them to
Microsoft.  The same fix is in the 2003 hot fix, Vista/2008 SP2 and
Win7/2008-R2.

Jeffrey Altman

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