[OpenAFS] my afs wish list

[Marcus Watts]

David.Bear@asu.edu writes:
> I've been following the discussion here regarding AFS and plugable
> auth methods and encryption.  I find it interesting.  And, it is more
> interesting that nobody has mentioned anything about a better windows
> client.  Possible intereprations are (1) I'm the only one that has
> problems with it (2) all the AFS developers are UNIX guys and don't
> care much for support windows clients -- (3) some intersection of 1
> and 2...
> 
> I realize that I'm a beggar -- it would take years for me to be able
> to contribute any code to the afs base.  But, since AFS has worked so
> well on linux, I would really like to see better integration in the
> windows realm.  Especially since 95% of all my users are windows
> users.
> 
> And the A number 1 thing that I hate about afs on windows is that it
> uses the smbserver and generates lots of noise in the log files about
> unable to determine smb type, or failures to start in some profiles
> but not others, or how it selects serverprefs different for linux, ...
> 
> I'm complaining -- and that does no good.  But, there are an order of
> magnitude more windows boxes here to support than linux -- 

It's good to complain, er about stuff like that.  I certainly try hard
not to think too much about windows, but there are lots of windows
users here at Umich, so it would be good for things to work right.

				-Marcus Watts
				UM ITCS Umich Systems Group