I'm wondering if one can somehow "edit" some magic hex value in the .lnk to update the provider. That way, I could, say, iterate through our afs cell with a script doing the replace on any .LNK files.
On Wed, Aug 29, 2012 at 11:39:00AM -0400, Richard Brittain wrote: > Excellent!! > > For months we've had this same problem, but only on a few machines, > and now I expect it was ones with old shortcuts created under 1.5, > (and some machines might also have still had the SMB redirector > still installed, to further confuse things). > > Deleting and recreating the shortcuts 'fixed' my test box on which I > could reliably generate this error. > > We were initially getting what appeared to be the same error because > of file server > 2TB and the 32-bit device report limits, but the > errors never fully went away after we patched our servers. > > Richard > > > >>>On Aug 23, 2012, at 5:24 PM, Jeffrey Altman wrote: > >>> > >>>>Shortcuts are tied to the "network provider name" just as drive letter > >>>>mappings are. > >>>>A shortcut created with the 1.6 or earlier OpenAFS client is using the > >>>>Microsoft SMB redirector and the "Microsoft Network" provider. > >>>>A shortcut created with the 1.7 or later OpenAFS client is using the > >>>>OpenAFS redirector and the "OpenAFS Network" provider. > >>>> > >>>>UNC paths are tied to the network provider. When the "Microsoft > >>>>Network" is asked for the path, \\afs\cell\foo it will report that it > >>>>doesn't exist even though the file system interface says it does. This > >>>>is not a bug but a limitation of the conversion from relying upon > >>>>Microsoft's SMB redirector to a dedicated AFS redirector. > >>>> > >>>>Jeffrey Altman > > -- > Richard Brittain, Research Computing Group, > Computing Services, 37 Dewey Field Road, HB6219 > Dartmouth College, Hanover NH 03755 > [email protected] 6-2085 > _______________________________________________ > OpenAFS-info mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.openafs.org/mailman/listinfo/openafs-info > -- ******************************** David William Botsch Programmer/Analyst CNF Computing [email protected] ******************************** _______________________________________________ OpenAFS-info mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openafs.org/mailman/listinfo/openafs-info
