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HI!
Just out of interest:
which site (beside our cell) is using OpenAFS as filestore for Windows
Profile and customers working on this?
MfG,
Lars Schimmer
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We (UNC-Chapel Hill Physics) have been doing this for a long time (4
years??)
I believe UNC-Charlotte's college of engineering has also been doing this
for a long time. Rodney Dyer has documented the details of it on his
webpage (google will show you the page).
It works OK. It's just not sim
It's not out there for all users yet, but we are storing our windows profiles
in AFS.
On Fri, Feb 08, 2008 at 01:15:21PM +0100, Lars Schimmer wrote:
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> Just out of interest:
> which site (beside our cell) is using OpenAFS as filestore fo
Lars Schimmer wrote:
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HI!
Just out of interest:
which site (beside our cell) is using OpenAFS as filestore for Windows
Profile and customers working on this?
We are still in test phase here, but it seems to work pretty well on
both laptops and wo
I was waiting for Rodney to chime in, but I can confirm this. The
UNC-Charlotte College of Engineering does store profiles in AFS. I'm the
not the Windows guy, so I only know what Rodney has said. We have had
small but persistent problem with the hanging of roaming profiles.
Rodney has writte
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> HI!
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> Just out of interest:
> which site (beside our cell) is using OpenAFS as filestore for Windows
> Profile and customers working on this?
Good to see we are not the only cell working with profiles in AFS space.
We use 1.4
Lars Schimmer skrev:
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Lars Schimmer wrote:
HI!
Just out of interest:
which site (beside our cell) is using OpenAFS as filestore for Windows
Profile and customers working on this?
Good to see we are not the only cell working with profiles
At 06:42 AM 2/10/2008, Lars Schimmer wrote:
Biggest problems:
1. slowness - Users reports of LONG loading times for 400-1000 MB roaming
profiles, up to 20 minutes
Yeowie! I guess I should chime in at this point.
Our experience with roaming profiles in AFS.
We started using roaming profiles
Lars Schimmer wrote:
1. slowness - Users reports of LONG loading times for 400-1000 MB
roaming profiles, up to 20 minutes
How large is your cache?
If your cache is smaller than what you are loading all you are doing
is repeatedly thrashing the contents of the cache. That will result
in the w
Rodney M. Dyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> So the only variable we have left is
> "%username%". How am I supposed to setup folder redirection?
> I can't use:
> "n:\cell\usr\a\%username%\pc\win_data\Desktop"
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> That won't work since the parent folders are different for every user.
I have n
At 04:27 PM 2/10/2008, Christopher D. Clausen wrote:
I have not tested this (all my user directories are out of a single
folder) but can one use the documented set command envirnoment variable
display options (set /?) to obtain the first (second, third, etc.) letter
of a username?
I haven't t
Rodney M. Dyer wrote:
There is a new "undocumented" third way that I might mention here. The
latest OpenAFS Windows client has the unique ability to access a users
volume directly by volume name. You must have the "freelance" option
enabled to do this, and it goes somthing like this...
At 03:39 PM 2/10/2008, Rodney M. Dyer wrote:
When a user is logged on, a global drive cannot be unmounted by the
user which is nice. (This assumes they aren't an administrator.)
I'm replying to myself here because I forgot a couple of extra items at
this point.
When a global drive is m
Stephen Joyce wrote:
6. Profiles saved under Windows contain unicode characters.
Profile and redirected folders don't currently work well with the
AFS client because it doesn't support unicode file names. This isn't
a huge issue, but sometimes this comes into play for our foreign
students
I second almost everything Rodney said. But I have a few comments (inline).
On Sun, 10 Feb 2008, Rodney M. Dyer wrote:
2. A users profile has a folder under it called "Local Settings". THIS
FOLDER DOES NOT ROAM. This folder only exists during your session on the
local machine. When you log
Rodney M. Dyer wrote:
At 12:33 PM 2/11/2008, Jeffrey Altman wrote:
The AFS client does not support the UNICODE variant of the CIFS
protocol and there is a bug in the Windows CIFS client that fails to
properly process File Status Notification messages for objects
accessed via UNC paths. This b
At 06:23 AM 2/11/2008, Lars Schimmer wrote:
Ok, sorry, needed to snip thattext out, seems to be more or less the same
like the PDF on best practice workshop 2005(or 2006?).
I believe the information you are refering to is from "AFS on Windows",
2004 workshop
As fas as I know, with Windows XP
Lars Schimmer wrote:
Ok, grabbing a procmon log, which filters should I apply before I make
it public? Without its really BIIIG.
In this special case, cache is now 400 MB and user profile juts 140 MB
around, it should fit.
How about just reading the output and finding where there are errors?
I
Lars Schimmer wrote:
3. reliability - some days windows hit a error while saving the profile
and no "readable" info could be found - I assume mostly unicode problems
need more details.
Right now such a special "user profile".
Win client 1.5.3009 (fresh installed today, 400 MB cache, Windows X
At 12:33 PM 2/11/2008, Jeffrey Altman wrote:
The AFS client does not support the UNICODE variant of the CIFS protocol
and there is a bug in the Windows CIFS client that fails to properly
process File Status Notification messages for objects accessed via UNC
paths. This bug was fixed in Vista.
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Rodney M. Dyer wrote:
> At 06:42 AM 2/10/2008, Lars Schimmer wrote:
>> Biggest problems:
>>
>> 1. slowness - Users reports of LONG loading times for 400-1000 MB
>> roaming profiles, up to 20 minutes
>
> Yeowie! I guess I should chime in at this point
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Jeffrey Altman wrote:
> Lars Schimmer wrote:
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>> 1. slowness - Users reports of LONG loading times for 400-1000 MB
>> roaming profiles, up to 20 minutes
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> How large is your cache?
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> If your cache is smaller than what you are loading all you are
Rodney M. Dyer wrote:
True. That is a UNC path and it should work with roaming profiles. It
is when we use UNC paths with "Folder Redirection" that small problems
show up. If the users Desktop for example has been redirected to AFS,
then a file stored on the desktop might not immediately be
Stephen Joyce <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Sun, 10 Feb 2008, Rodney M. Dyer wrote:
>> 2. A users profile has a folder under it called "Local Settings".
>> THIS FOLDER DOES NOT ROAM. This folder only exists during your
>> session on the local machine. When you logout, the data in that
>> fold
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Jeffrey Altman wrote:
| Lars Schimmer wrote:
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|>>> 3. reliability - some days windows hit a error while saving the profile
|>>> and no "readable" info could be found - I assume mostly unicode
|>>> problems
|>> need more details.
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|> Right now such
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