[OpenAFS-win32-devel] Re: Use of the Windows Registry

[Meghadri Ghosh]

Perhaps the afsdbmt.ini containing the drive mappings could be moved to 
be per user.

I believe the current code could be maintained by simply create the 
following key: (The default value can be set to some suitable key, 
perhaps under 'Software\\OpenAFS.org\\Client'?)

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows 
NT\CurrentVersion\IniFileMapping\afsdbmt.ini]
@="#USR:Software\\OpenAFS.org\\afsdbmt

Thus per user mapping settings could be maintained.

By the way, I installed v1.2.10 on XP and noticed that it installs the 
loopback adapter and binds to it. This is good, but the MS loopback 
adapter was already installed on the system and a second instance was 
inserted by the installation. Additionally, on removing the new instance 
of the loopback adapter, and restarting the client service, the binding 
was to the (real) NIC instead of the existing loopback adapter.

Some time back I had emailed a URL that contained the diffs of a local 
version we have at Stanford that installed the loopback adaptor, if 
necessary, and if automatic binding was specificed, detected any 
existing instance of the MS loopback adaptor and bound to its LANA.

The installer has been written with Installshield Developer 8. The code 
diffs and the install project can be found at

http://www.stanford.edu/~meghadri/OpenAFS/


Please let me know if there are any questions, or these could be 
otherwise modified to be amenable for useful integration into OpenAFS.

--
megh