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To Steve and others interested, version 1.5.52 of OpenAFS has now been
released:
http://openafs.org/windows.html

-Jeff

-----Original Message-----
From: MSU Network Administrators Group [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On
Behalf Of STeve Andre'
Sent: Wednesday, August 06, 2008 3:39 PM
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: [MSUNAG] AFS client on WinXP

Thank you, Jeff!

I have a slew of older versions, which I will attempt to play with
when the user gets here.

Thanks again.

--STeve Andre'

On Wednesday 06 August 2008 15:12:10 Jeff Quinn wrote:
> Other people are reporting similar problems.  According to Jeff Altman:
> > This is a known bug that was fixed within 24 hours of a bug report
> > arriving in the OpenAFS RT.
> >
> > The fix will appear in 1.5.52.
> >
> > We do recommend that drives be mapped using the Explorer Shell
> > and the \\AFS unc path.
>
> -Jeff
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: MSU Network Administrators Group [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On
> Behalf Of STeve Andre'
> Sent: Wednesday, August 06, 2008 2:24 PM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: [MSUNAG] AFS client on WinXP
>
>    I have a user who wants to use AFS.  They used it before, and I set
> things up for them and left it alone.  That was easy.  This time, I
> seem to be dealing with a sick machine.  When I get tokens that
> works, but mapping a drive results in the mapped drive being a
> single character, usually a control char.  I made the attempt to
> install the AFS client on the persons laptop, but it too is weird.
>
> So then, besides my fighting the problems on the two machines,
> does anyone have experience with version 1.5.51 on XP?  If it
> turns out that 1.5.51 doesn't work, whats the latest one that
> does?
>
> Thanks.......
>
> --STeve Andre'
> Political Science