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Section 2.3.2 CommonNetworkRelativeLink On 8/31/2012 2:52 PM, Dave Botsch wrote: > 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 >> >
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