The hot fix for Windows 2003 and XP64 is now available from
Microsoft.  If you have an OpenAFS client installed please
consider this critical

  http://support.microsoft.com/kb/969289

Jeffrey Altman


Jeffrey Altman wrote:
> Next week Microsoft will be posting Knowledge Base article KB969289
> which describes a flaw in the Microsoft SMB Redirector on Windows Server
> 2003. A public hot fix will be available for download once this KB
> article is posted. All users of Windows 2003 that have an OpenAFS for
> Windows client installed on the system *should* upgrade to SP2 and
> install this hot fix.  The issue in question can result in machine
> performance degradation over time with loss of access to file systems
> accessed via the SMB redirector (Windows File Shares, Dfs, AFS, etc.)
> and eventually loss of console access. 
> 
> Administrators are strongly encouraged to install OpenAFS for Windows
> 1.5.59 at the same time they install the KB969289 hot fix.  If 2003 SP2
> and the KB969289 hot fix cannot installed, it is imperative that OAFW
> 1.5.59 be installed.  Prior releases of OAFW are more likely to tickle
> the condition that results in the performance degradation.
> 
> It is suspected that the Windows XP version of the SMB redirector
> contains the same issue.  As XP will reach the end of its mainstream
> support next Tuesday and hard evidence of the issue has yet to be
> submitted to Microsoft by a paying PSS customer, it is unlikely that a
> fix will be made available.
> 
> Jeffrey Altman
> 

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