[OpenAFS-win32-devel] No more feature changes expected before 1.3.70; future release plans

[Roman Rozinov]

Installed 1.3.6590 in our test environment, Windows XP SP1. I have set
AFS Service to manual, and then stopped it.  Then I restarted the
Windows XP workstation.  Upon local account login, I received
"Integrated Login Failed: (null)" error message.  I checked that the
integrated login is not enabled.  Is that an ongoing issue?

This build also seemed to fix massive delays we have been experiencing.
It seems opening documents from AFS volume is much faster now.  We were
experiencing substantial delays opening Office, Textpad, and other
explorer dependent document apps in previous builds.

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Roman Rozinov
Technology Support Analyst=20
Desktop Systems Technology, Information Technology
Arizona State University
rroman@asu.edu <http://www.asu.edu/it/>

-----Original Message-----
From: openafs-win32-devel-admin@openafs.org
[mailto:openafs-win32-devel-admin@openafs.org] On Behalf Of Jeffrey
Altman
Sent: Wednesday, July 21, 2004 10:29 AM
To: Jeffrey Altman
Cc: openafs-win32-devel@openafs.org
Subject: Re: [OpenAFS-win32-devel] No more feature changes expected
before 1.3.70; future release plans

We are on track for a Tuesday release of 1.3.70.
New daily builds have been uploaded to their usual place:

  /afs/athena.mit.edu/user/j/a/jaltman/Public/OpenAFS/
  \\afs\athena.mit.edu\user\j\a\jaltman\Public\OpenAFS\
  http://web.mit.edu/~jaltman/Public/OpenAFS/

These builds fix some minor bugs and provide two functional changes due
to feedback from the one person who I know has looked at the recent
builds.=20

   1. the new winlogon logoff event handler will no longer destroy the
      user's tokens on logoff if the profile was loaded from an AFS
      volume.  Unfortunately the logoff event is delivered prior to the
      write back of the profile and there is no way to know how long the
      write back will take.  It might be seconds or minutes.
   2. A late contribution of SMB/CIFS Remote Administration Protocol
      code has been incorporated.  For those who are unfamiliar, RAP
      provides SMB clients the ability to enumerate the shares exported
      by an SMB server and obtain extended information about the server
      and its shares.  This protocol is used extensively by the Windows
      Explorer and without support for RAP the Explorer performs quite
      poorly when accessing AFS volumes via UNC paths.=20

I strongly encourage everyone to test today's builds in their
environments and think hard about their upgrade plans.  The release is
on Tuesday unless something major turns up in the next couple of days.

Jeffrey Altman