[OpenAFS] Openafs 1.1.1a on win2k/globally mapped afs drives

[T. Matthew Cocker]

Hi

A while back I posted to the list about problems I was having with openafs 
(1.0.4 and 1.1.1a) on win2k clients. We are running a kerberized cell with 
the MIT Krb5 servers running on separate machines from AFS database 
servers. The MIT krb5 servers were added to the afsdcell.ini file for the 
client to find them for authentication. Unfortunately the AFSD process 
would shutdown all the time and often would not restart until the machine 
was rebooted. I have managed to stop the afs client shutdown I was having 
on Win2k by installing an MIT kerberos server on one of the AFS database 
server and removing the standalone MIT krb5 servers from the afsdcell.ini 
file. The afsd process seemed to be requesting volserver information from 
the standalone MIT krb5 servers and stopping (or failing to start) when it 
didn't get it (we would see lots of one way network traffic to the krb 
servers on the volserver port, followed by afsd shutting down). Anyway afs 
now seems to stay running.

The other problem I am having is with creating globally mapped drives. I 
want to create permanent network shares on the win2k machines for admin use 
but the feature does not seem to work. If I add a drive (say N: at \afs) I 
get no N: network drive showing up in "net use" output but I get a 
"Disconnected Network Drive (N:)" icon in My Computer that I can not delete 
or disconnect with out uninstalling OpenAFS. Any idea how I can get rid of 
these icons? Is this a broken option in the openafs client?

Cheers,

Matt Cocker