The NetBIOS issue is fixed for most users by 1.5.9902 but not for everyone. The underlying Windows bug is still there and it can be triggered.
1. 5.9902 is simply the next release for Windows. There is nothing special in the 1.5 to 1.6 transition for the Windows platform. Jeffrey Altman On 3/10/2011 5:58 PM, Jason D. McCormick wrote: > I note with great happiness that the NetBIOS issue is fixed in 1.6.0pre2 for > Windows 7. We've been doing some testing and the \\AFS path has survived > everything we've thrown at it so far. We'd like to push this out to our > Windows 7 users but I wanted to clarify the expected stability of 1.6.0pre2. > From reading the changelog, it appears that for Windows the version called > 1.5.9902 is simply the next version after 1.5.78 and would have the same > expected general stability as its predecessor version. Thus for Windows, > where we have 1.5.7x deployed, moving to 1.5.9902 is simply the appropriate > next release. Is this a correct read on the Windows release situation? We > haven't encountered any unusual issues that would make us think otherwise, > but I wanted to confirm since *nix follows a different stream (i.e. 1.4.x -> > 1.6.x is a big upgrade) and that's what I follow the closest. > > Thanks. > > -- > Jason McCormick > Unix Team Lead, Systems Group, IT > Software Engineering Institute, Carnegie Mellon Univ. > E: [email protected] > > > _______________________________________________ > OpenAFS-info mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.openafs.org/mailman/listinfo/openafs-info >
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