Re: Community Support for OpenAFS for Windows

OpenAFS installed on the machine.  No gateway mode.
Try opening a 100MB file in Microsoft Word from AFS
and then perform a "Save as ..." to another filename
within AFS.

You will receive a "Delay Writes warning" and then if you are
using Word XP, Word will crash.

Jeffrey Altman


John W. Sopko Jr. wrote:
> Can you elaborate on "This causes all Microsoft Office
> applications to have failures when writing to AFS."
> 
> Do you mean when using the standard AFS Windows client to AFS, or using the
> AFS Light Gateway to write to AFS on a Windows system? Thanks.
> 
> Jeffrey Altman wrote:
> 
>> OpenAFS 1.3.70 has now shipped.
>> Examples of some of the hard work which is ahead of us:
>>
> 
>> * The architecture of the SMB/CIFS server does not allow for sequential
>>   processing of SMB/CIFS requests.  This prevents us from implementing
>>   support for digital signing but more importantly breaks applications
>>   which use overlapped writes.  This causes all Microsoft Office
>>   applications to have failures when writing to AFS.  I can't think of
>>   a more important suite of applications which must simply work if AFS
>>   is truly to be used in a transparent manner from the end user
>>   experience.
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