This file is a rough list of known issues with the 1.3.63 release of OpenAFS on Windows. This list is not complete. There are probably other issues which can be found in the RT database or on the mailing list. (1) File/Directory access is not integrated with windows security (2) tokens are assigned to the service on a system global basis. Therefore, all users and processes on the machine are able to access files with the list of available tokens. This is dangerous if anonymous logins are enabled; or if multiple users are on the machine (ie, Terminal Server or XP user switching) (3) SMB LANA list is static. (3a) IP address changes cause the service to terminate due to an assertion in smb_Listener() thread. (3b) New IP addresses do not get bound (3c) Loopback adapter hack: (i) prevents use of AFS Gateway (ii) requires installation of loopback adapter (iii) the list of hack adapters is incomplete (VMWare, MS TV/Video, ...) (iv) incompatible with Windows 2000 and earlier (4) Performance of the AFS Client Service code simply sucks. The average read, write, and delete times for AFS are more than ten times slower than the equivalent Windows File Share operations. The Window File Share operations are not all that fast. It has been claimed that the Windows AFS functions are one hundred times slower than the equivalent operations on Linux. I would not be at all surprised. The best we can do without rewriting AFS as a IFS would be to match the Windows File Share performance. I believe the threading model is imposing significant delays in the movement of data from between the SMB and RX protocol operations. There was also an issue with large numbers of page faults which have since been fixed. (5) The AFS SMB code logs numerous 1002 events each day. This is caused when an invalid SMB message are being processed from within the client. It is unclear if the invalid SMB message has been received or is being sent. (6) The AFS client service causes MRxSMB to produce 3019 events. This is probably the result of either malformed messages or invalid LANA values being used. (7) There appear to be directory locking problems associated with renaming directories. (8) File termination differences between Win9x and nt/w2k/xp (Jim Peterson) (9) How to silence "Explorer" when the mapped drive is not available? (10) Convert to IFS!!!!!! (11) Kerberos 5 integration: (11f) allow arbitrary cell to realm mappings (11g) modify UI to allow user to choose whether to authenticate using Kerberos or AFS (11h) modify UI to allow user to select an existing principal to be used to request AFS tokens (11i) modify UI to display Kerberos 5 ticket info (principal, ticket lifetimes, etc) (12) Default cell is system global just like everything else. Different users logging in via Integrated Logon or using afscreds.exe cannot be automatically prompted for different cells (13) AFS Integrated Logon: (13a) Obtain tokens via Kerberos 5 (13b) If using Kerberos, need to figure out a means of passing credentials into the user space until such time as I finish the new credential cache service. (13c) If network is not available must store the username and password somewhere until such time as the network starts. (14) Loopback adapter is not always installed with bindings to "File and Printer Sharing for Microsoft Networks" or "Client for Microsoft Networks". If these are not bound then SMB names will successfully be published to a list of zero which causes the AFS not to function. We need a way to test whether the Loopback adapter is properly bound so we know if it is safe to use. Actually, it is worse. Even with the bindings on Win2000 the loopback adapter frequently fails to publish SMB names. Of course, the error messages report nothing. (15) If a drive mapping is "in use", then afscreds cannot be used to Modify or Delete the Mapping. If a map to "H:" to \afs\cell\foo" with description "home" is modified to point to \afs\cell\bar, then the description must be unique. "home" cannot be reused. We need a way to remove "home" from the submount list. (16) WinAFS configuration values are still stored in old style INI files instead of using the Registry. This is especially important for per-user values such as drive mappings (17) Drive mappings are lost on WinXP after return from Standby. (This could be because the AFS Client Service fails OR because the RX protocol is temporarily unable to access the Cell due to network restore timing issues.) (18) No support for Unicode filenames. Translations make file unreadable (19) No auto-restart on service failure (20) Better EventLog handling (21) Named Pipes Support (22) Memory Mapped File support (23) Large file support (24) Execution of debug builds indicates corruption of run time library allocated memory blocks due to buffer overruns. This may be the result of improper object locking or out of bounds access. (25) AFS Shell Extensions do not work on UNC paths of the form \\AFS\... They only work on mapped drives. (26) Implement persistent disk based cache which survives restarts (27) NSIS Installer issues for re-installs (a) AFS Server Configurator should not start on update (b) AFS Server Volumes and Configuration Data should not be removed on uninstall (28) The User Interface needs to be re-designed to separate the per-user and per-machine settings. All of the new registry items need to be added to the UI (29) Windows XP SP2 and Windows 2003 SP1 are going to lockdown the machine. We need to add code to programatically open the Internet Connection Firewall to the ports needed by the various AFS services.