2011-06-28 15:23 keltezéssel, Jeffrey Altman írta: > On 6/28/2011 8:15 AM, Michael Richter wrote: >>> Do not use Global Drives mounting, it is buggy and does not work. >> We noticed that AFS remembers the submounts but does not show them. So >> we have to take a new one everytime. But this is actually the only way >> to get full write access to his afs drive. > From the OpenAFS for Windows Release Notes: > > "3.41. Global Drives (aka Service Drive Letters) are no longer supported > by Microsoft > The Global DriveAuto-mount feature has been deprecated due to the > following Microsoft KB article. > > http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en-us/dllproc/base/services_and_redirected_drives.asp > > > "The article says that services mounting drive letters are no longer > supported by Microsoft and may act unpredictably. The experience other > users have had is that if the connection to the OpenAFS CIFS/SMB server > is terminated by the Windows CIFS client, the drive mapping may not be > re-established until the machine is rebooted. > > "OpenAFS supports UNC paths and whenever possible applications should be > modified to use UNC form \\AFS\<cellname>\<path> instead of drive letters. > > "Another problem with service mounted drive letters is that the drives > are reported as local disk devices and cannot be resolved as being > mapped to the \\AFS name space. As a result, AFS path ioctl operations > will fail. The fs.exe and symlink.exe command line tools and the AFS > Explorer Shell extension will not operate on service mounted drive letters." > > In addition, this functionality is going to be removed in 1.7 because > the native AFS redirector cannot support it; there are no SMB submounts. > Hi, Sorry for hijacking this thread, but does that mean, that with IFS we will be unable to map a drive letter to e.g. \\afs\cellname\users\staff\username ?
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