[OpenAFS] Possible bug in Windows AFS client handling older shortcuts

[Dave Botsch]

I'm wondering if one can somehow "edit" some magic hex value in the .lnk
to update the provider. That way, I could, say, iterate through our afs
cell with a script doing the replace on any .LNK files.

On Wed, Aug 29, 2012 at 11:39:00AM -0400, Richard Brittain wrote:
> Excellent!!
> 
> For months we've had this same problem, but only on a few machines,
> and now I expect it was ones with old shortcuts created under 1.5,
> (and some machines might also have still had the SMB redirector
> still installed, to further confuse things).
> 
> Deleting and recreating the shortcuts 'fixed' my test box on which I
> could reliably generate this error.
> 
> We were initially getting what appeared to be the same error because
> of file server > 2TB and the 32-bit device report limits, but the
> errors never fully went away after we patched our servers.
> 
>  Richard
> 
> 
> >>>On Aug 23, 2012, at 5:24 PM, Jeffrey Altman wrote:
> >>>
> >>>>Shortcuts are tied to the "network provider name" just as drive letter
> >>>>mappings are.
> >>>>A shortcut created with the 1.6 or earlier OpenAFS client is using the
> >>>>Microsoft SMB redirector and the "Microsoft Network" provider.
> >>>>A shortcut created with the 1.7 or later OpenAFS client is using the
> >>>>OpenAFS redirector and the "OpenAFS Network" provider.
> >>>>
> >>>>UNC paths are tied to the network provider.  When the "Microsoft
> >>>>Network" is asked for the path, \\afs\cell\foo it will report that it
> >>>>doesn't exist even though the file system interface says it does.  This
> >>>>is not a bug but a limitation of the conversion from relying upon
> >>>>Microsoft's SMB redirector to a dedicated AFS redirector.
> >>>>
> >>>>Jeffrey Altman
> 
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