[OpenAFS] Openafs-Client and Windows

[Rodney M Dyer]

Mr. Engert,

We mount a global drive to the top of our AFS file system for our users 
called the "n:" drive.  The drive is mounted by a system startup 
script.  Since the drive is mounted by user SYSTEM, once mounted, the users 
can't remove it because they don't have admin privileges.

I know that the AFS client config allows the setup of global drives and 
sub-mounts, but this is an auxiliary function to its purpose.  I've never 
wanted to use the AFS client config for mounting the global drives because 
it isn't a "clean" way to do it, ie it isn't scriptable.

The ability to mount other "rooted" drives from the global drive works 
simply by using the "subst.exe" command.

For example:

net use n: \\pc1-afs\all

will mount the "n:" drive to the top of the AFS file system.

and,

subst.exe u: n:\domain\usr\username

will create a "rooted" "u:" drive to a user's AFS home directory.

For more info see appendix C)  XP Workstation Boot Script "mosaicd.cmd" in...

http://www.coe.uncc.edu/~rmdyer/krblogon.htm

This might help.

Rodney

Rodney M. Dyer
x86 Systems Programmer
Mosaic Computing Group
William States Lee College of Engineering
University of North Carolina at Charlotte
Email rmdyer@uncc.edu
Phone (704)687-3518
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At 03:10 PM 3/3/2003 -0600, you wrote:
>James, Thomas,
>
>Based on your commens on this thread, maybe you could answer the question
>I asked last week, as it is related to assigning of drive letters for users.
>
>The src/WINNT/afsd_service.c has commented out the code to map AFS Global 
>Drives,
>which would have called:
>
>sprintf(szAfsPath, "\\Device\\LanmanRedirector\\%s\\%s-AFS\\%s", 
>szDriveToMapTo,
>cm_HostName, szSubMount);
>DefineDosDevice(DDD_RAW_TARGET_PATH, szDriveToMapTo, szAfsPath);
>
>It claims that this code was moved to Drivemap.cpp. But it appears that the
>Global drivres are never defined.
>
>Is there some reason that this would be droped or was it never implemented?
>If it was still there, then a single drive letter could be assigned to point
>at /afs, or /afs/your.cell which could then be used by all the users,
>and would get around the roaming profiles and shared afsdsbmt.ini problems.
>
>The help for the function says Windows NT/2000 or later and:
>
>    "MS-DOS Device names are global. After it is defined, an MS-DOS device 
> name
>     remains visible to all processes until either it is explicitly 
> removed or
>     the system restarts."
>
>Thanks.
>
>  Douglas E. Engert  <DEEngert@anl.gov>
>  Argonne National Laboratory
>  9700 South Cass Avenue
>  Argonne, Illinois  60439
>  (630) 252-5444
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