[OpenAFS] Openafs 1.6.4 Release

2013-07-01 Thread nicolas prochazka
Hello, Is there any reason why openafs 1.6.4 is not release ? ( source tar.gz in openafs site is more usuable for ebuild gentoo packager for example) Regards, Nicoolas Prochazka.

Re: [OpenAFS] Windows 8.1, SkyDrive and Roaming Profiles

2013-07-01 Thread Dave Botsch
So, how does Windows then deal with storing those on non-NTFS filesystem? NFS or FAT32 usb sticks? Etc. Does all of that just break, does it do some sort of de-reference to the actual file, or do something akin to the mac data/resource fork splitting ? On Mon, Jul 01, 2013 at 12:43:07PM -0700, Ru

Re: [OpenAFS] Windows 8.1, SkyDrive and Roaming Profiles

2013-07-01 Thread Russ Allbery
Dave Botsch writes: > What would be the suggested resolution from Microsoft? > Any reason OAFSWin can't add support for these reparse points? You can't do that only in the Windows client, at least if I'm understanding the nature of reparse points correctly. The AFS file server would also have

RE: [OpenAFS] Windows 8.1, SkyDrive and Roaming Profiles

2013-07-01 Thread David Boyes
> > A university would not. > > Why not? Because: 1) Universities tend toward maximum freedom of usage, even if the "feature" is actually hazardous. 2) If you disable something on a machine that you don't own, you're likely to get all sorts of grief. Most machines in university environments

Re: [OpenAFS] Windows 8.1, SkyDrive and Roaming Profiles

2013-07-01 Thread Stephen Joyce
On Mon, 1 Jul 2013, Jeffrey Altman wrote: A university would not. Why not? An organization that is supporting Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) cannot. Is there a use case for roaming profiles in a BYOD environment? (Not trying to troll; I don't support Windows currently but am always interes

Re: [OpenAFS] Windows 8.1, SkyDrive and Roaming Profiles

2013-07-01 Thread Dave Botsch
What would be the suggested resolution from Microsoft? Any reason OAFSWin can't add support for these reparse points? thanks. On Sat, Jun 29, 2013 at 12:09:59PM -0400, Jeffrey Altman wrote: > Last Wednesday Microsoft released the one and only preview release of > Windows 8.1 in conjunction with

Re: [OpenAFS] Windows 8.1, SkyDrive and Roaming Profiles

2013-07-01 Thread Jeffrey Altman
A university would not. An organization that is supporting Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) cannot. On 7/1/2013 11:44 AM, Coy Hile wrote: > Wouldn't most organizations disable these defaults via a global GPO? > > > > From: openafs-info-ad...@openafs.org on b

RE: [OpenAFS] Windows 8.1, SkyDrive and Roaming Profiles

2013-07-01 Thread Coy Hile
Wouldn't most organizations disable these defaults via a global GPO?  From: openafs-info-ad...@openafs.org on behalf of Jeffrey Altman Sent: Saturday, June 29, 2013 4:09 PM To: OpenAFS Subject: [OpenAFS] Windows 8.1, SkyDrive and Roaming Profiles Last Wed

Re: [OpenAFS] volscan for RHEL5

2013-07-01 Thread Michael Meffie
On Mon, 1 Jul 2013 09:50:42 + "Brunckhorst, Ralf" wrote: > Hello, > > I have compiled the volinfo binary from the MASTER-tree to be able to use the > volscan utility (by creating a link to volinfo) on RHEL6 with openafs-1.6.2 > > I would also like to use these utilities on RHEL5 openafs-1.

[OpenAFS] volscan for RHEL5

2013-07-01 Thread Brunckhorst, Ralf
Hello, I have compiled the volinfo binary from the MASTER-tree to be able to use the volscan utility (by creating a link to volinfo) on RHEL6 with openafs-1.6.2 I would also like to use these utilities on RHEL5 openafs-1.6.2 but I'm not able to compile it due to some too old compiler and make f