[OpenAFS-win32-devel] Five questions on MSI and Heimdal

[Tommie Gannert]

> Windows machine passwords however are not random keys.  The
> administrator must
> know what they are in order to set them on the Windows machine via KSETUP.
>

Right, I forgot that. Maybe I should try to remember what I set it to. :)


> MSI and NSIS are both official.  IS is dead.
>

Okay... So we have to equivalent ways of installing it. The only
diffence being one is executable, the other requires MSI? Isn't that
- ambiguous, or something?


> You shouldn't be prompted for a password when accessing \\AFS\cell.

Can it be because I'm logged in localy as Administrator, but
accessing AFS as the network user?

And it wasn't the Cancel key, sorry. It was the OK button, but with
user/password fields empty.

Also, I get a ktc_SetToken() failure in KfW if I try to login without
first accessing \\AFS, hitting OK in the password dialog.


> Although I don't recommend creating global mappings to cellnames.

This confuses me. I should _not_ do a Global Drives->Add on Z: -> /afs/cell?
Why are they called submounts? Where are the "mounts"?


> You should create a submount name
> which maps to the cell and then global share the submount.

Isn't that done implicitly when I do Global Drives->Add?
Should I map the "share" via Windows Explorer?

(I could go on forever about things I don't understand in the Windows AFS GUI. :(
It's probably most due to the SMB-architecture.)

/Tommie
 - confused by prefixes like "sub-" when there are no "-"