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Last change on this file was 633, checked in by Herwig Bauernfeind, 14 years ago

GUI-Tools: EVFSGUI 2.1.x: Fetch missing credentials for browsing

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1ToDo for 2.5:
2- Major code refactoring (partly done)
3- Enable and complete printer support code
4- Support server based logon scripts (requires REXX rpc library,
5 partly done) (works in a separate utility right now)
6- Enable WPS integration code (partly done)
7
8Known problems:
9- Fix endless loop if neither EVFS nor Netdrive is installed
10 under all conditions
11- Passive connections/double connection detection does not seem
12 to work properly
13
14Version 2.1.3 2011-??-??
15+ Added: Help button on network neighbourhood view
16+ Added: Help button on connection details view
17! Fixed: Fetch credentials in case "Authenticate for browsing" is enabled
18 and no credentials were entered before
19
20Version 2.1.2 2011-06-13
21+ Added: Display some hints about what is going on in the statusbar
22+ Added: Display information about installed/connected SMB printer ports.
23! Fixed: Do not crash if manually added machines do not allow browsing
24! Fixed: Connect in network neighbourhood used selected object instead of
25 source object (eventually resulted in a connection to the wrong
26 share)
27
28Version 2.1.1 2011-03-08
29! Fixed: Finally servers always end up in the proper domain/workgroup
30
31Version 2.1.0 2011-01-18
32+ Added: Support for new CTO and CLD parameters introduced with 2.0.0 beta3
33! Fixed: Behaviour of login box did not work as designed
34! Fixed: No mount attempt if entering credentials was aborted
35! Fixed: Do not crash during "Detach all"
36- Refactoring: Streamline parameter parsing code
37- Refactoring: Remove double variables for parameters
38- Refactoring: Create Icon. stem in order to ease maintenance of icons
39- Refactoring: Common wrapper around all dynamic functions
40- Refactoring: Remove double variables for settings and options
41- Refactoring: Debug on/off option is properly done now
42
43Version 2.1 beta2 2010-12-26
44+ Added: New "About" box displays detailed version notices of all
45 client components
46+ Added: -DELAY [n] switch (as requested in Ticket #148)
47+ Added: Integrated delay into progress window upon startup
48+ Added: Throbber on progress window
49! Fixed: Do not crash on bad return value from *RxGetMount() in GetChildren
50! Fixed: "Abort" in progress window presented an uninitialized main window
51! Fixed: Logfile names were wrong in the online help
52! Fixed: Several typos (thanks to Rainer Stroebel)
53
54Version 2.1 beta1 2010-08-13
55+ Added: On-the-fly browsing on remote servers
56+ Added: Files can be "opened" during on-the-fly browsing (a mountpoint
57 is created first) - does not work properly yet!
58+ Added: Set icons of browsed files according to extender types (only most
59 often used types (EXE, OOO, PDF, generic multimedia icons - no WPS
60 mechanism for that from REXX)
61+ Added: Refresh display every 60 seconds in order to reflect changes
62 done on the command line while EVFSGUI is open
63+ Added: "Detach all" menuitem in context menu
64+ Added: "Refresh" menuitem in context menu
65! Fixed: Do not flash during refresh
66! Fixed: Workaround for uninitialized advance.!alwaysmp
67! Fixed: Do not run more than 32 smbclient.exe concurrently (EVFSGUI
68 needs Paul Ratcliffe's pr1util.dll now)
69
70Version 2.0.6 2010-08-13
71- This is 2.1.beta1 without On-the-fly-browsing on remote servers
72
73Version 2.0.5 2010-04-23
74! Fixed: Passive connections were not removed when the same connection was
75 loaded using a profile
76! Fixed: Missing NLV message if wrong file was dropped onto the left pane
77
78Version 2.0.4 2010-04-09
79! Fixed: Connection details doubled since MEMLEN etc removal.
80* Changed: Some parts of the code were refactored
81
82Version 2.0.3 2010-02-23
83+ Added: Open mountpoint as WPS object moved to a separate thread in order
84 not to block the EVFSGUI main window while waiting for a folder
85 on a slow connection to open.
86+ Added: Double-click also opens a mountpoint as WPS folder
87+ Added: Debug ON also makes hidden columns in connections details visible
88! Fixed: "Abort" button on progress window was not NLV enabled
89! Fixed: The NLV subroutine now properly falls back to the builtin
90 (bracketed) message files in case NO (not even an english
91 message file) can be found.
92! Fixed: Do not crash in Autostart dialog when no NLV file was found.
93! Fixed: Open mountpoint as WPS object fully workable
94! Fixed: Open mountpint now has a consistent behaviour with other actions
95* Changed: Open context menu item enabled for testing (experimental)
96* Changed: Show wait pointer while opening WPS folder
97* Changed: CltInit: Now scans wellknown locations for Samba binaries
98 (faster at least in theory)
99* Changed: In the 1.5.0 GA version of the plugin the MEMLEN, LOGFILE and
100 LOGLEVEL tokens are removed in order to address the problem with
101 EVFSRxGetMount() return strings - several changes in EVFSGUI were
102 required to address this change in the plugin.
103NOTE: This changes makes older profile files, both .ndc and .evp incompatible.
104 EVFSGUI can read old profiles, but only saves new profiles. The Netdrive
105 GUI does not have such a feature. Older profiles may easily be migrated
106 by editing with a text editor and removing the MEMLEN, LOGLEVEL and
107 LOGFILE tokens from the resource strings manually.
108
109Version 2.0.2 2010-01-25
110* Changed: Remove Win95/98/IBM Peer length limits from smbtree.vrs.
111+ Added: EVFSRxGetMount() returns a maximum string length of 255 for
112 resdata, if workgroup+server+share+username+password > 52 the
113 resulting resdata string will be truncated. Several workarounds
114 in ParseResourceData() added in order not completely fall over.
115
116Version 2.0.1 2010-01-12
117+ Added: Alex T.: Use 'Combined' font on DBCS systems
118! Fixed: Alex T.: Default fonts are set correctly
119! Fixed: Alex T.: Section title colours now correctly default to system settings
120! Fixed: Alex T.: Various fixes and enhancements to window resize logic
121! Fixed: Alex T.: FWidth/margin got lost on the expose list
122! Fixed: Herwig B.: Another speed up in resize logic (use marginx2 instead of
123 42 times margin * 2)
124
125Version 2.0.0 (Refresh) 2009-12-29
126* Changed: Rewrite routines to find .msg and .hlp files
127! Fixed: Set size of throbber object according to screen dimensions
128
129Version 2.0 GA 2009-12-24
130+ Added: Provide unexpected.tdb in the installer
131! Fixed: Detect trailing tabs and blanks in the temporary directory
132! Fixed: A manually added server's workgroup might be unknown in the moment
133 the dialog is populated
134
135Version 2.0 beta6 2009-12-12
136+ Added: WPI installer for Plugin, EVFSGUI and Samba Client Utilities
137 (plus variant that includes EVFS for eCS distribution).
138+ Added: New global option: Use broadcasts instead of local master browser
139+ Added: New menu entry: Save default workgroup to smb.conf
140! Fixed: Also go through double (and passive) connection check
141 if profile is loaded as a commandline parameter
142! Fixed: Migrate to enhanced NLV setup subroutines
143! Fixed: Autodetection of filesystem variant did not work properly
144! Fixed: Turn off debug console upon startup
145! Fixed: Don't crash when attempting to create the Autostart script
146! Fixed: Also create %ETC%\samba\lock directory for client
147! Fixed: Properly redraw network neighbourhood after refresh
148
149Version 2.0 beta5 2009-11-15
150+ Added: Manually entered servers are automatically integrated into the
151 network neighbourhood
152! Fixed: IP address servers (without a name) can be browsed properly now.
153! Fixed: Detect missing upcase tables (and don't fall over)
154! Fixed: If nothing is found, network neighbourhood should be empty (and
155 not display an unnamed workgroup icon).
156! Fixed: When immediate authentification for browsing was enabled, the
157 main window was not redrawn properly.
158! Fixed: Changed statusbar size (should look better)
159
160Version 2.0 beta4 2009-11-03:
161! Fixed: Do not crash on outdated temporary files
162! Fixed: Do not crash on unavailable machines
163
164Version 2.0 beta3 2009-10-29:
165! Fixed: The GUI was blocked every few seconds during network neighbourhood
166 scan. Bonus: The new code is even faster than the previous one.
167
168Version 2.0 beta2 2009-10-25:
169+ Added: English helpfile
170+ Added: German helpfile
171+ Added: French helpfile (partly done, requires completion by Guillaume)
172+ Added: Information about server dialog
173+ Added: Dialog also uses information from network neighbourhood
174+ Added: Detection of "dead" (non accessible) servers (which are still in the
175 browse list)
176* Changed: Dialog entry fields now use WarpSans Bold font (matches style of
177 other dialogs)
178! Fixed: Network neighbourhood is filled much faster than before
179! Fixed: No more share type guessing
180! Fixed: Ticket #105: Temporary files not removed
181! Fixed: Ticket #106: Icon in global settings dialog not properly aligned
182
183Version 2.0 beta1 2009-09-15:
184+ Added: Browsing code from smbmon
185+ Added: D'n'd support for file shares
186+ Added: Connection wizard dialogs
187+ Added: main menu bar
188+ Added: New advanced settings
189+ Added: "Old" 1.x look and feel
190+ Added: Main window is resizable
191+ Added: Splitbar between panels
192+ Added: Create rudimentary %ETC%\samba\smb.conf
193+ Added: Connection details view (preliminary)
194+ Added: Double connection detection using md5 hashes
195+ Added: New profile saving code
196+ Added: Remove menu option (preliminary for passive connections only)
197+ Added: smbtree.vrs: Optionally do not show hidden shares
198+ Added: smbtree.vrs: Enhanced guessicon()
199+ Added: Preliminary context menus for Browse View and Connection details view
200+ Added: "Retry" for passive connections (only manually for now)
201+ Added: Drag and drop for passive connections
202+ Added: Hide columns not useful for endusers
203+ Added: NLV enable (parts of) connection details
204+ Added: Disabled old profile saving code
205+ Added: Sort smbtree view ascending
206+ Added: Optionally turn on/off special ($) shares
207+ Added: Optionally use big icons
208+ Added: Profile files may be dropped onto the current connections container
209+ Added: Login dialog behaviour matches the one from smbusers now
210+ Added: Preliminary handling of smbtree error messages
211+ Added: Optionally save passive connections across sessions
212+ Added: French message file (thanks to Guillaume Gay)
213* Changed: Several changes in GUI style (as suggested by Alex Taylor)
214* Changed: Left align buttons in current connections panel (as suggested by
215 MrFawlty and Alex Taylor)
216* Changed: Replaced status bar by a text control (as suggested by Alex Taylor)
217 (only used for version display for now)
218* Changed: Main icon is now the one done by Alex Taylor
219* Changed: Use PM_Default_Colors for title sections (as suggested by Alex Taylor)
220* Changed: German translation of "Retry"
221* Changed: Profile behaviour: In 1.3 a new profile replaced older connections
222 on the same volume only, in 2.x a new profile is merged with the
223 old connections one.
224* Changed: Split advanced dialog should be split into connection options and
225 global options
226* Changed: Redesigned mount dialog
227* Changed: Redesigned login dialog
228* Changed: Clarified message about multiple connections
229* Changed: Rebuild required Samba Client utilities 3.0.36 with libc063
230 (instead of libc064x) (Changeset 331 level)
231! Fixed: Loading a profile presented the user a half drawn window
232! Fixed: Startup code was broken if no evfsgui.ini is present
233! Fixed: CltInit uses smbclient.exe instead of smbd.exe to find Samba binaries
234! Fixed: Message queue during resize isn't cleared (no flashing during resize)
235! Fixed: Missing NLV aware strings
236! Fixed: Don't let user edit network neighbourhood results
237! Fixed: Claiming a passive connection already exists is nonsense
238! Fixed: Disallow connecting to printers via context menu
239! Fixed: Edit and Selected menu easily got out of sync
240! Fixed: Edit and Selected menu still got out of sync, really fixed now
241! Fixed: Another missing record validation
242! Fixed: Password display broken on double connection warning
243! Fixed: Detect more printers
244! Fixed: Confirmation of removal of a single connection was missing
245! Fixed: Dropdown combobox in mount dialog was readonly
246! Fixed: Autostart mode was broken
247
248Version 1.3.7 - changes not relevant for 2.0
249
250Version 1.3.6
251! Fixed: When connecting to a complete server, the workgroup got lost during the
252 connecting process.
253Version 1.3.5
254! Fixed: Error in profile file parsing logic could lead to double entries
255 for LOGFILE and LOGLEVEL (possibly having side effects on EASUPPORT)
256Version 1.3.4
257! Fixed: Readonly connection option did not work (was not implemented)
258Version 1.3.3
259* Changed: Provide better message box for profile saving (to explain rather
260 odd behavior
261Version 1.3.2
262! Fixed: No more double drive letters in the drive letters list after mounting
263* Changed: "Workgroup/ Domain:" back to "Workgroup:"
264Version 1.3.1
265+ Added: Explanation for errors in case mount operation fails
266* Changed: "Workgroup:" to "Workgroup/ Domain:"
267Version 1.3
268+ Added: Support for the (new) ndpsmb logging feature
269+ Added: Support for the (old) ndpsmb logging feature (deactivated)
270+ Added: Save "titlebar" color across sessions
271* Changed: Merge Alex Taylor's and Herwig B.'s latest changes
272* Changed: Also display status data in hintarea when mouse cursor is over
273 the "current resources" pane
274! Fixed: Tab order in "new resource" pane
275! Fixed: Help did not work for advanced window in NLV versions
276
277Version 1.2.1 (2009-04, Herwig B.)
278+ Added: Try to restart EVFSCTL.EXE once in case it is not running.
279+ Added: Implemented support for error messages depending on return codes
280 in case of failed operations as provided from ndpsmb.dll version
281 1.5alpha2 or better.
282* Changed: Move status data of current connection into container caption
283 (Makes more sense there).
284* Changed: Show version notice in status area (at the bottom now)
285! Fixed: In case the connect operation fails on a newly created mount point,
286 the mountpoint is removed again, instead of leaving it in a zombie
287 status. That makes sense as EVFSGUI does not support the creation
288 and maintenance of empty mountpoints (the underlying EVFS (including
289 the REXX interface) supports this, but the GUI does not).
290
291Version 1.2.1 (2009-05, Alex Taylor)
292! Fixed: Main window wasn't set visible if INI file was missing.
293! Fixed: Corrected English, formatting h in helpfile.
294+ Added: Better program icon.
295
296Version 1.2 (2008-10)
297*Updated: Finally all the help files are updated to reflect all changes
298 (en, de and fr)
299!Workaround: It appears that for unknown reasons the SysDriveMap() function
300 hangs if it is used with the "FREE" and "REMOTE" flags, after it is
301 called for several times. I noticed that after I received Yuri's
302 latest Samba plugin. The problem disappears if EVFS is not installed.
303 This should be tested (and fixed) by Vitali in EVFS (probably).
304
305+ Added: In debug mode the output in the console window has time stamps now
306+ Added: Display name and version of the used IFS on "empty" mountpoints
307+ Added: Button on the autoload window (the -nogui GUI) to abort reconnection
308+ Added: Server entry field is now a drop down combo box holding all servers
309 to which connections were made with)
310+ Added: Alternatively support NetDrive for SMB shares instead of EVFS (using
311 undocumented -ndfs switch)
312* Updated: All message files
313! Fixed: Bug in my autoload code
314! Fixed: Bug in my -ndfs code (spotted by Guillaume)
315
316+ Added: Autostart EVFS connections feature via Startup folder object
317+ Added: -nogui switch (only show a small message window)
318+ Added: -autoclose switch (close eVFSGUI after 3 seconds)
319+ Added: Load profile specified on the commandline
320+ Added: Edit via context menu for mountpoints with exactly one resource
321+ Added: Context menu equivalents to the Detach and Unmount pushbuttons
322+ Added: The content of the EF_NETWORK field (aka workgroup) is saved to the
323 EVFSGUI.INI as this changes only on rare occasions (saved me a lot of
324 typing during testing)
325+ Added: Do not attach drive if has already been attached (from TODO list A.T.)
326! Fixed: Profiles supported plain passwords whereas EVFS provided encrypted
327 passwords in profile files
328! Fixed: eVFSGUI initializes itself properly now
329! Fixed: eVFSGUI would hang after displaying the message "no control program
330 found"
331! Fixed: Cleanup signal stuff ("return" after a signal is a bad thing to do!)
332! Fixed: INI file was not closed after leaving eVFSGUI
333! Fixed: When several mount points exist and the first one is removed the click
334 event routine was executed after the corresponded record was already
335 removed -> eVFSGUI crashed. As a fix the record is validated before an
336 attempt to access its data is done. If it does not exist anymore the
337 event routine is terminated without further action.
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