[OpenAFS] RE: Global Drives with Windows 2k

[Voss, Andreas]

yes, with IBM AFS 3.6.2.39 it's the same problem.
Andreas Voss


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

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-----Original Message-----
From: Frank J. Cameron [mailto:cameron@ctc.com]=20
Sent: Dienstag, 24. September 2002 00:44
To: Voss, Andreas
Subject: Re: Global Drives with Windows 2k


As far as I know, the global drive functionality has not yet been fully
implemented in OpenAFS.  Did you try the newest patch release of the
client from IBM (patch release 5: 3.6_2.39)?

> Date: Mon, 23 Sep 2002 13:39:14 +0200
> From: "Voss, Andreas" <andreas.voss@id.ethz.ch>
> To: <openafs-info@openafs.org>
> Subject: [OpenAFS] Global Drives with Windows 2k
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> Hello,
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> I am supporting the windows (2000)machines in the student computer=20
> 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=20
> - until installing SP3 for Windows 2k: the redirecting of the=20
> Directories Application Data and Desktop (working fine 'til then)=20
> cannot be established without errors: Internet Explorer favorites=20
> cannot be read or created and the Icon "Show Desktop" of the=20
> Quick-Launch-Bar is not working any more. Only after un-redirecting=20
> the Foldes Application Data to the roaming profile (%userprofile%)=20
> makes favorites an the Show-Desktop-Icon working. But this is not a=20
> could solution, because Logon/Logoff with unredirected Desktop-Folder=20
> and Application Data takes long time.
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> Because of this I tried to use the Open AFS Client 1.2.2.b. I also=20
> would like to switch to this client, because our servers are / will be

> switched to open afs too.=3D20
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> 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:
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> "Windows cannot create profile directory=20
> Z:\users\a\avostud\profiles\hgglobal\win.pds.  You will be logged on=20
> with a local profile only. Changes to the profile will not be=20
> propagated to the server. Contact your network administrator. "=3D20
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> and after this:
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> "Windows cannot find the local profile and is logging you on with a=20
> temporary profile. Changes you make to this profile will be lost when=20
> you log off."
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> But after Logon all the necessary directories on AFS are available and

> I have full access according to my tokens, obtained when logging into=20
> Windows. So it thought, the reason is a slow network connection. But=20
> changing the group policy in that way, that slow network connections=20
> are accepted, brings to solution of this problem.
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> To mount the Profile-AFS-Drive in the Windows 2K Start-Script =
with=3D20
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> "net use z: \\%computername%-afs\ethz.ch /persistent:no" (working with

> former AFS-Clients and Windows NT4)
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> instead of using global drives also cannot load the Drive with error
> message:
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> "System error 53 has occurred.
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> The network path was not found."
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> I have seen, that this problem was discussed in former months, but=20
> never I've seen a solution for this. Maybe I'm blind - then I would be

> glad telling me, how to find it.
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> Bye
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> Andreas
> _________________________
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> Andreas Voss
> Informatikdienste / Basisdienste
> ETH-Zentrum SOW E 14
> Sonneggstrasse 63
> 8092 Zuerich
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> Telefon: 0041-1-632.48.48
> Fax: 0041-1-632.17.41