[OpenAFS-devel] Windows Terminal Server

[Tim Spriggs]

  yay for deprecation! :) They are finally moving away from DOS!

  Is there any way of getting around this? I could make a startup script,
I'm sure, to map the drive if it doesn't exist but that seems a little
hackish. I like the idea of having a drive letter for our users even
though it is easy for _me_ to tell them they should type in \\AFS\(cell
name)\... somewhere and map it.

Suggestion from the peanuts gallery:

  It seems like the global drives feature might simply be implemented
differently. Since the common user can see drive mappings made by the
administrator in the global drives configuration area, the AFS client
could try to map those as user mounts for an individual session. This way
openafs still has the ability to do the "global drive" in the sense of
users seeing system-administrator default mappings.

  Furthermore, if the same behavior is expected from global mappings then
the unmount operation could be denied from openafs.

/Suggestion

Thanks!
-Tim

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On Tue, 13 Sep 2005, Jeffrey Altman wrote:

> Global drive mappings are not supported by Microsoft.  They are
> deprecated and are not guaranteed to have reliable behavior
> after Windows 2000.  The functionality is expected to disappear entirely
> in a future release.
>
> http://rt.central.org/rt/Ticket/Display.html?id=15160
>
> Jeffrey Altman
>
> Tim Spriggs wrote:
>
> > Hello All,
> >
> > When I create a global drive as Administrator on a windows 2003 Terminal
> > Server I can't see the drive as a normal user through My Computer. However
> > the drive is listed in the client configuration utility as the normal
> > user.
> >
> > I have read through the notes online and I don't see anything related to
> > this, am I missing something?
> >
> > Thanks,
> > -Tim
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