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

2013-07-10 Thread Dave Botsch
It looks like Windows 8.1 still stores Roaming Profiles in C:\users\username\AppData\Roaming ... which is different than C:\users\SkyDrive ... So, are you referring to somehow making the whole C:\Users\username the roaming profile, which would then include the SkyDrive folder? Or are you

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

2013-07-08 Thread Dave Botsch
Being somewhat unfamiliar with Windows 8 / 8.1... what are the suggested steps for recreating the conditions to replicate the failure? I've got a skydrive login setup, so, now what? thanks. On Sat, Jun 29, 2013 at 12:09:59PM -0400, Jeffrey Altman wrote: Last Wednesday Microsoft released the

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

2013-07-08 Thread Jeffrey Altman
Configure 8.1 to use roaming profiles and produce a situation in which SkyDrive has synchronized the directory structure but not the contents and files. Then logout and let the SkyDrive folder in the user profile be written back to AFS. On 7/8/2013 1:38 PM, Dave Botsch wrote: Being somewhat

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

2013-07-08 Thread Dave B
a situation in which SkyDrive has synchronized the directory structure but not the contents and files Right. That's what I am curious about how to do. David William Botsch Programmer/Analyst CNF Computing bot...@cnf.cornell.edu

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

2013-07-02 Thread Lars Schimmer
On 2013-07-01 19:09, David Boyes wrote: A university would not. Why not? Because: 1) Universities tend toward maximum freedom of usage, even if the feature is actually hazardous. Not everywhere. Depending on the level of security you want. With the new events of Prism and co being

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

2013-07-02 Thread David Boyes
-Original Message- [examples of one sane voice amidst the madness] I do not know which university you do know and think about, but at least in europe some do work different. Mostly American universities, I'm afraid. It's my great consolation that the European and Asian

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

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

2013-07-01 Thread Jeffrey Altman
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 Wednesday Microsoft released the one and only preview release of Windows 8.1 in conjunction with the Microsoft Build conference which I attended. The one

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 Stephen Joyce
? 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 Wednesday Microsoft released the one and only preview release of Windows 8.1

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 are

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

2013-07-01 Thread Russ Allbery
Dave Botsch bot...@cnf.cornell.edu 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

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,

[OpenAFS] Windows 8.1, SkyDrive and Roaming Profiles

2013-06-29 Thread Jeffrey Altman
Last Wednesday Microsoft released the one and only preview release of Windows 8.1 in conjunction with the Microsoft Build conference which I attended. The one big change relating to file systems is the integration of SkyDrive into the Shell and its selection as the primary storage location for