Re: [OpenAFS] status of samba serving AFS file space? other non-native windows access?

2006-10-24 Thread Jeffrey Altman
Dan Pritts wrote: >>> ...which are still happenning, although the timeouts are shorter. >>> More detail to follow. sigh. >> Depending on the symptoms the problems may have been fixed in 1.4.2. > > symptom is that the first time a user opened a file with a windows > 1.5.10 client, there was a noti

Re: [OpenAFS] status of samba serving AFS file space? other non-native windows access?

2006-10-24 Thread Dan Pritts
> > ...which are still happenning, although the timeouts are shorter. > > More detail to follow. sigh. > > Depending on the symptoms the problems may have been fixed in 1.4.2. symptom is that the first time a user opened a file with a windows 1.5.10 client, there was a noticeable delay, on the o

Re: [OpenAFS] status of samba serving AFS file space? other non-native windows access?

2006-10-23 Thread Jeffrey Altman
Dan Pritts wrote: >>> It may be that all of our problems have been either the long delays >>> accessing AFS (which I think was due to the server bug that was fxed in >>> 1.4.1), > > ...which are still happenning, although the timeouts are shorter. > More detail to follow. sigh. Depending on the

Re: [OpenAFS] status of samba serving AFS file space? other non-native windows access?

2006-10-23 Thread Dan Pritts
On Tue, Oct 17, 2006 at 10:14:17AM -0400, Jeffrey Altman wrote: > > have in fact filed some bugs, or at least contacted you directly, > > specifically regarding the delay issues. Also for the record you > > were apparently responsive but somehow along the way the problem > > didn't get solved.

Re: [OpenAFS] status of samba serving AFS file space? other non-native windows access?

2006-10-18 Thread Volker Lendecke
Hi, Jeffrey! On Wed, Oct 18, 2006 at 08:19:03AM +0200, Volker Lendecke wrote: > > I don't know where you can read about it but it is in fact true. > > The reason it took so long to get OpenAFS for Windows to work on > > Vista was because of the TLS support. Every Vista workstation whether > > par

Re: [OpenAFS] status of samba serving AFS file space? other non-native windows access?

2006-10-17 Thread Volker Lendecke
On Tue, Oct 17, 2006 at 05:02:47PM -0400, Jeffrey Altman wrote: > > And, Samba can nowadays be configured to accept kerberos > > tickets even without being an ADS member, but Windows > > clients will not appreciate this. But that's just Windows. > > This discussion is specifically related to Windo

Re: [OpenAFS] status of samba serving AFS file space? other non-native windows access?

2006-10-17 Thread Jeffrey Altman
Volker Lendecke wrote: > And, Samba can nowadays be configured to accept kerberos > tickets even without being an ADS member, but Windows > clients will not appreciate this. But that's just Windows. This discussion is specifically related to Windows client access to AFS. Since Windows CIFS clien

Re: [OpenAFS] status of samba serving AFS file space? other non-native windows access?

2006-10-17 Thread Volker Lendecke
Hello! On Mon, Oct 16, 2006 at 05:05:20PM -0400, Jeffrey Altman wrote: > In answer to your question regarding Samba. There are several sites > that I work with who have used Samba as a gateway for users on MacOS X > and Windows that do not have AFS clients installed. The number one > issue that

Re: [OpenAFS] status of samba serving AFS file space? other non-native windows access?

2006-10-17 Thread Jeffrey Altman
Christopher D. Clausen wrote: > Oh yes, I am aware of the greater potential for problems. I just didn't > want to get anyone's hopes up with notions that 1.5.X will solve all > problems. Generally though, MS Office apps seem to work better with the > 1.5.X clients (at least in my limited scop

Re: [OpenAFS] status of samba serving AFS file space? other non-native windows access?

2006-10-17 Thread Christopher D. Clausen
Jeffrey Altman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Christopher D. Clausen wrote: >> I'll note that I run the 1.5.X series of clients in production, >> although the 1.5.0901 builds seem to have serious problems when >> mount points or symlinks are removed, but this has only really >> affected me as most us

Re: [OpenAFS] status of samba serving AFS file space? other non-native windows access?

2006-10-17 Thread Jeffrey Altman
Dan Pritts wrote: > On Mon, Oct 16, 2006 at 05:05:20PM -0400, Jeffrey Altman wrote: >> Danno: >> >> I suspect that if people filed more bug reports when problems were >> experienced that things would get fixed faster. I understand that folks > > for the record (and I know *you* know this), our wi

Re: [OpenAFS] status of samba serving AFS file space? other non-native windows access?

2006-10-16 Thread Dan Pritts
On Mon, Oct 16, 2006 at 05:05:20PM -0400, Jeffrey Altman wrote: > Danno: > > I suspect that if people filed more bug reports when problems were > experienced that things would get fixed faster. I understand that folks for the record (and I know *you* know this), our windows support folks have in

Re: [OpenAFS] status of samba serving AFS file space? other non-native windows access?

2006-10-16 Thread Jeffrey Altman
Daniel Clark wrote: > BTW the following web pages need to be updated with links to the new > location of the AFSLore wiki: > >* http://www.openafs.org/ (Navigation Frame, 3rd item down). The navbar was updated with this change on Sept 15th of this year. Perhaps your browser is caching an old

Re: [OpenAFS] status of samba serving AFS file space? other non-native windows access?

2006-10-16 Thread Jeffrey Altman
Christopher D. Clausen wrote: > I'll note that I run the 1.5.X series of clients in production, although > the 1.5.0901 builds seem to have serious problems when mount points or > symlinks are removed, but this has only really affected me as most users > do not need to use such features, especia

Re: [OpenAFS] status of samba serving AFS file space? other non-native windows access?

2006-10-16 Thread Daniel Clark
On 10/16/06, Dan Pritts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi folks - what's the current status of using samba to serve files from an AFS backend to windows clients? There is a (hopefully pretty complete) list of methods of doing this up at: * http://www.dementia.org/twiki/bin/view/AFSLore/SMBtoAF

Re: [OpenAFS] status of samba serving AFS file space? other non-native windows access?

2006-10-16 Thread Jeffrey Altman
Danno: I suspect that if people filed more bug reports when problems were experienced that things would get fixed faster. I understand that folks are reluctant to file reports when they can't reproduce the problems or when there are no resources available to assist in debugging or identifying the

Re: [OpenAFS] status of samba serving AFS file space? other non-native windows access?

2006-10-16 Thread Christopher D. Clausen
Dan Pritts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > some of it has been mysterious issues with changes not being saved. > I think this is really because they are simultaneously editing AFS > files with MS office, because they refuse to drag files to their > desktop before opening and the 1.4 client we're using

Re: [OpenAFS] status of samba serving AFS file space? other non-native windows access?

2006-10-16 Thread Volker Lendecke
On Mon, Oct 16, 2006 at 03:39:09PM -0400, Dan Pritts wrote: > what's the current status of using samba to serve files from an > AFS backend to windows clients? I could easily use Linux or Solaris > as the samba server. Other platforms would be possible. That works perfectly fine. > how does ha

[OpenAFS] status of samba serving AFS file space? other non-native windows access?

2006-10-16 Thread Dan Pritts
Hi folks - what's the current status of using samba to serve files from an AFS backend to windows clients? I could easily use Linux or Solaris as the samba server. Other platforms would be possible. how does handle file locking? How does it handle authentication? can you successfully use MS