[OpenAFS] my afs wish list

[Derrick J Brashear]

On Tue, 29 Apr 2003, Marcus Watts wrote:

> > 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.

Indeed, in my professional scope there are lots of Windows users around,
and in my personal scope, well, there are OpenAFS Windows clients in my
own home. There's certainly an impact as an AFS administrator even if one
does not use Windows, because you're in the minority.