[OpenAFS] Global Drives with Windows 2k

[Voss, Andreas]

Hello,

I am supporting the windows (2000)machines in the student computer rooms
of our polytechnicum.
All students are using roaming profiles on the AFS.
Everything was working well with the IBM AFS Client 3.6.2.26 - until
installing SP3 for Windows 2k: the redirecting of the Directories
Application Data and Desktop (working fine 'til then) cannot be
established without errors: Internet Explorer favorites cannot be read
or created and the Icon "Show Desktop" of the Quick-Launch-Bar is not
working any more. Only after un-redirecting the Foldes Application Data
to the roaming profile (%userprofile%) makes favorites an the
Show-Desktop-Icon working. But this is not a could solution, because
Logon/Logoff with unredirected Desktop-Folder and Application Data takes
long time.

Because of this I tried to use the Open AFS Client 1.2.2.b. I also would
like to switch to this client, because our servers are / will be
switched to open afs too.=20

But this client is working worse - even with Windows 2000 without SP3.
The Global Drive ist loaded, but not usable. This an error message
appears:

"Windows cannot create profile directory
Z:\users\a\avostud\profiles\hgglobal\win.pds.  You will be logged on
with a local profile only. Changes to the profile will not be propagated
to the server. Contact your network administrator. "=20

and after this:

"Windows cannot find the local profile and is logging you on with a
temporary profile. Changes you make to this profile will be lost when
you log off."

But after Logon all the necessary directories on AFS are available and I
have full access according to my tokens, obtained when logging into
Windows.
So it thought, the reason is a slow network connection. But changing the
group policy in that way, that slow network connections are accepted,
brings to solution of this problem.

To mount the Profile-AFS-Drive in the Windows 2K Start-Script with=20

"net use z: \\%computername%-afs\ethz.ch /persistent:no" (working with
former AFS-Clients and Windows NT4)

instead of using global drives also cannot load the Drive with error
message:

"System error 53 has occurred.

The network path was not found."

I have seen, that this problem was discussed in former months, but never
I've seen a solution for this. Maybe I'm blind - then I would be glad
telling me, how to find it.

Bye

Andreas
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Andreas Voss
Informatikdienste / Basisdienste
ETH-Zentrum SOW E 14
Sonneggstrasse 63
8092 Zuerich

Telefon: 0041-1-632.48.48
Fax: 0041-1-632.17.41