Re: Tonight's new builds - release candidates?

Late breaking news.  The external Kerberos vs SMB AUTH problem has been 
solved
by allowing EXTENDED authentication (GSS SPNEGO) to always be used even when
we know that NTLM is all that will successfully be negotiated.  
Apparently, when
SPNEGO is used the NTLMSSP always uses the local account's password and not
the password entered at login time.  Thanks to Asanka for making the 
discovery.

New builds have been uploaded. 

Jeffrey Altman


Jeffrey Altman wrote:

> I have uploaded a new set of builds tonight.  Today's change is a fix 
> to the algorithm used
> to reconnect to servers when all the servers are considered to be 
> down.  This solves a problem
> which was reported involving physical network disconnects leaving 
> volumes which were
> actively in use unaccessible until the AFS Client Service was restarted.
>
> There have been no other code changes.  The afs-install-notes.txt file 
> was updated to include
> information about the current state of the SMB Auth vs external 
> Kerberos authentication.
>
> Daily builds can be obtained from:
>
>  /afs/athena.mit.edu/user/j/a/jaltman/Public/OpenAFS/
>  \\afs\athena.mit.edu\user\j\a\jaltman\Public\OpenAFS\
>  http://web.mit.edu/~jaltman/Public/OpenAFS/
>
> I am still anticipating a Tuesday release.
>
> Jeffrey Altman
>