Re: [OpenAFS] drive mappings with the windows xp client

2004-10-07 Thread Jeffrey Altman
Evan Knop wrote: I have two usage scenarios here which may be accounted for; my programming heritage is mostly Linux, but I've been pressed into work on the Windows client, as I'm the only one currently at Thayer with knowledge of both subject realms. 1) I have been using this mechanism to acc

Re: [OpenAFS] drive mappings with the windows xp client

2004-10-07 Thread Evan Knop
Jeffrey Altman wrote: Then the problem is not in AFS but something in the Windows configuration for your end user. FYI: The Global Drive Mapping feature is going to be removed from OpenAFS at some point in the near future. See ticket 15160 in the OpenAFS RT for a detailed explanation. Basically

Re: [OpenAFS] drive mappings with the windows xp client

2004-10-07 Thread Jeffrey Altman
When you mapped the drive using afscreds.exe you specified a "submount" name. Are you able to access the submount when you map via NET USE or the Explorer Shell? NET USE X: \\AFS\submount smime.p7s Description: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature

Re[2]: [OpenAFS] drive mappings with the windows xp client

2004-10-07 Thread Ron Croonenberg
Hi Jeffrey, this is what I did. C:\>net use q: \\AFS\afs-2.csc.depauw.edu\home\cowboy The command completed successfully. after this I can use that Q drive like expected. it is in AFS space etc etc. files can be opened/created/modified with explorer etc. thanks, Ron >the afs drivemap librar

Re: [OpenAFS] drive mappings with the windows xp client

2004-10-07 Thread Jeffrey Altman
the afs drivemap library pretty much passes requests onto the WNet APIs for performing drive mapping. What I would accept as a statement is that the Explorer Shell uses the APIs differently from how the AFS drive mapping API does it. I would be interested in knowing if you are able to successf

Re[6]: [OpenAFS] drive mappings with the windows xp client

2004-10-07 Thread Ron Croonenberg
When I create a drive mapping with the Windows client the drive mapping doesn't seem to be correct (for some reason I end up with a partition being "RAW instead of it being in AFS space and I don't have access to the volume at all.) However, when I "Map Network drive" (menu option when right clic

Re: [OpenAFS] drive mappings with the windows xp client

2004-10-07 Thread Jeffrey Altman
Ron Croonenberg wrote: Hi Jeff, I can check, but I doubt it. thanks btw: I installed the DEBUG version of the client on that one machine. Where are the log/debug files so I can take a look at what is going on ? debug does not mean additional logs. what it means is that it was compiled without opt

Re[2]: [OpenAFS] drive mappings with the windows xp client

2004-10-07 Thread Ron Croonenberg
>Ron: > >Is there any chance you can get my time paid for to look into this? > >- Jeff Hi Jeff, I can check, but I doubt it. btw: I installed the DEBUG version of the client on that one machine. Where are the log/debug files so I can take a look at what is going on ? thanks, Ron > > >Ron C

Re: [OpenAFS] drive mappings with the windows xp client

2004-10-06 Thread Jeffrey Altman
Ron Croonenberg wrote: Correct, that is the problem... however, I have an older AFS server running here (OpenAFS 1.2.8) and I don't have a problem connecting to that one. (and with don't have a problem I mean, that when I get tokens to the older afs server, I can connect and do all the stuff one ex

Re: [OpenAFS] drive mappings with the windows xp client

2004-10-06 Thread Jeffrey Altman
Ron: Is there any chance you can get my time paid for to look into this? - Jeff Ron Croonenberg wrote: Yes I know. However I have problems connecting to that cell (afs-2.csc.depauw.edu) from windows machines. I installed windows XP from scratch on a Dell Optiplex 260, and updated with SP2. Thewre's

Re[2]: [OpenAFS] drive mappings with the windows xp client

2004-10-06 Thread Ron Croonenberg
Yes I know. However I have problems connecting to that cell (afs-2.csc.depauw.edu) from windows machines. I installed windows XP from scratch on a Dell Optiplex 260, and updated with SP2. Thewre's nothing on there but Windows XP SP2. After installing the OpenAFS windows client I experience the same

Re[2]: [OpenAFS] drive mappings with the windows xp client

2004-10-06 Thread Ron Croonenberg
Correct, that is the problem... however, I have an older AFS server running here (OpenAFS 1.2.8) and I don't have a problem connecting to that one. (and with don't have a problem I mean, that when I get tokens to the older afs server, I can connect and do all the stuff one expects). thanks, Ron

Re[2]: [OpenAFS] drive mappings with the windows xp client

2004-10-06 Thread Ron Croonenberg
>At 10:59 AM 10/6/04, Ron Croonenberg wrote: >>When I use the AFS client and try to map a drive via the "drive letters >>tab, it won't work. > >Be specific. What do you mean by "won't work"? I mean. it looks like the drive is there, but not in AFS space. in properties the drive "type" is RAW.

Re: [OpenAFS] drive mappings with the windows xp client

2004-10-06 Thread Rodney M Dyer
At 12:07 PM 10/6/04, Jeffrey Altman wrote: If I remember correctly, Ron also has some Novell client software installed on his machine. I think there might be some interaction between the Novell client software and AFS but I am not sure. I use the Novell client with AFS and don't have any trouble

Re: [OpenAFS] drive mappings with the windows xp client

2004-10-06 Thread Jeffrey Altman
Rodney M Dyer wrote: At 10:59 AM 10/6/04, Ron Croonenberg wrote: When I use the AFS client and try to map a drive via the "drive letters" tab, it won't work. Be specific. What do you mean by "won't work"? Global drives are not mounted as the user, they are mounted by the user that the AFS serv

Re: [OpenAFS] drive mappings with the windows xp client

2004-10-06 Thread Rodney M Dyer
At 10:59 AM 10/6/04, Ron Croonenberg wrote: When I use the AFS client and try to map a drive via the "drive letters" tab, it won't work. Be specific. What do you mean by "won't work"? Global drives are not mounted as the user, they are mounted by the user that the AFS service daemon runs as, us

Re: [OpenAFS] drive mappings with the windows xp client

2004-10-06 Thread Jeffrey Altman
Jeffrey Altman wrote: Then the problem is not in AFS but something in the Windows configuration for your end user. I meant your user logon session. This problem still needs to be debugged by someone. Jeffrey Altman smime.p7s Description: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature

Re: [OpenAFS] drive mappings with the windows xp client

2004-10-06 Thread Jeffrey Altman
Then the problem is not in AFS but something in the Windows configuration for your end user. FYI: The Global Drive Mapping feature is going to be removed from OpenAFS at some point in the near future. See ticket 15160 in the OpenAFS RT for a detailed explanation. Basically Microsoft changed the

[OpenAFS] drive mappings with the windows xp client

2004-10-06 Thread Ron Croonenberg
Hello all, I am still having issues with mapping drives with the windows xp client. However I found "a way around it When I use the AFS client and try to map a drive via the "drive letters" tab, it won't work. However, when I do the drive mapping as a "global drive" then everything seems to wo