[OpenAFS-win32-devel] OpenAFS for Windows - Thank yous and Outstanding Projects Report
Jeffrey Altman
jaltman@columbia.edu
Tue, 27 Jul 2004 14:20:40 -0400
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The long term stable release, 1.3.66/70, is about to be announced. The
progress made of the last eight months has been the result of hard work
by a very small number of individuals:
Rob Murawski - NSIS installer
Joe Buehler - patches to cleanup flexelint output
Asanka Herath - lots of work on the SMB server; afslogin; lanahelper
library; msi installer; ...
myself
with the support of a small number of organizations:
MIT
Morgan Stanley
Secure Endpoints
Sine Nomine
Skyrope
UNCC
and individuals:
Russ Allbery
Frank Cameron
Daniel Clark
Rodney Dyer
I especially want to thank Rodney Dyer for his extensive testing of the
daily builds.
Rodney's Windows configurations and uncc.edu cell have proven to be
exception
stress tests for OpenAFS. UNCC's Mosaic installation I am aware of
which is executing
all Windows applications out of AFS volumes as well as storing all
roaming profiles
within AFS volumes. His recently deployed Hyperthreaded workstations
have helped
to uncovered endless numbers of thread locking issues. Rodney's
dedication to identifying
reproducible test cases and providing remote access to test environments
has been
invaluable.
Now is the time to plan for the work to be completed over the next six
months. The following is a list of the known
outstanding projects as of this writing:
1. No longer use AFS Client Service "cell" as the default cell for
individual users
2. Re-write afsd_service.exe to perform synchronized thread startup
and shutdown.
Currently there is no synchronization of thread creation which
results in timing
conflicts; and there is no attempt to cleanly shutdown the service
which causes
problems when restarting and prevents the implementation of a
persistent cache
3. Implement a persistent cache
4. Prevent panic situation when the root.afs volume is not reachable and
the AFS Client Server is not using Freelance mode
5. Prevent panic situation when the IP address to which the SMB
server is bound is removed
from the local machine's network configuration
6. Identify and fix the problems with running the RX library on
Hyperthreaded systems
7. Add support for Named Pipes within the afs filesystem
(This is not currently a supported feature of AFS; it will require
changes to the servers as well as the clients.)
8. Re-write afscreds.exe to support:
1. choosing between Kerberos 5 and Kerberos 4 on a per
principal basis
2. providing users with the ability to map multiple cells to a
single principal
3. providing change password functionality on a per principal basis
4. no longer include drive mapping
5. configuration of afscreds startup options in shortcut
9. Re-write afs_config.exe to be only "per user" functionality which
does not require admin
privileges
1. default cell and principal for the user
2. drive mappings
3. visibility of afs creds and setting of afs creds startup options
10. Create new afs_admin.exe tool to be installed in the administrator
folder (or use MMS)
which contains
1. afs client service cell name
2. integrated logon configuration
3. Gateway configuration
4. start/stop service
5. global drive mapping
6. submount management
7. file/volume server preferences
8. afs cells
9. cache configuration
10. diagnostics
11. network configuration
12. miscellaneous
13. need to add support for all of the new registry values since
1.2.8
11. Identify why 16-bit DOS applications executed out of AFS fail
12. Create new Windows Security Group to which users can be added for
them to become AFS
Client Administrators
13. Add support for configurable Icon file representing AFS folders
within the Explorer Shell
14. Documentation Documentation Documentation
15. Large File support (> 2GB) for both SMB/CIFS server and RX client
16. Integrate KFW installation into the NSIS installer
17. Add support for record locking to AFS (requires changes to the
servers)
18. Unicode enable the SMB/CIFS server. OEM Code Pages:
1. prevent the use of interoperable file names
2. force the use of paths no longer than 256 characters
3. force share names to be no longer than 13 characters
4. restrict authentication to ASCII only names and passwords
19. Complete implementation of CIFS Remote Administration Protocol
20. Correct the problems with overlapped writes which adversely affect
Microsoft Office applications storing documents and temporary files
within AFS volumes
21. Development of afsmap.exe tool to provide AFS aware NET USE
functionality
afsmap.exe <drive> <afs-path> [/PERSISTENT]
afsmap.exe <drive> <unc-path> [/PERSISTENT]
afsmap.exe <drive> /DELETE
The 1.3.66 release is the most usable version of an AFS client ever
produced for the Windows platform. 95% of client machines in
organizations are Windows based. Ensuring that OpenAFS for Windows
works seamlessly with Windows is crucial to ensuring the continued
success of AFS deployments worldwide. I encourage all organizations
that wish to contribute to OpenAFS for Windows development to contact
me. Financial contributions as well as in kind assistance are seriously
appreciated. Without the support of the user community the recently
gained momentum will be lost.
Jeffrey Altman
OpenAFS for Windows Gatekeeper
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