source: trunk/guitools/evfsgui/changes@ 660

Last change on this file since 660 was 660, checked in by Herwig Bauernfeind, 14 years ago

GUI-Tools: EVFSGUI 2.5.x: Support WINS, store credentials

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1ToDo for 2.5:
2- Major code refactoring (done, except for old "lowlevel" routines)
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- eigenes Icon fr ADMIN$
7- _AddSharesDisplay verwendet kein file2stem
8- session user/password
9
10Known problems:
11- Fix endless loop if neither EVFS nor Netdrive is installed
12 under all conditions
13- Passive connections/double connection detection does not seem
14 to work properly
15- Refreshing a single machine adds shares 2x for automatically added machines
16
17Version 2.5.x 2011-??-??
18+ Added: Optionally store credentials in memory until next reboot
19+ Added: Properly verify all manually entered IP addresses
20+ Added: Connection speedup: Allow configuration of name resolve order
21+ Added: Connection speedup: Allow configuration of WINS server
22+ Added: Connection speedup: Optionally create/maintain LMHosts automagically
23+ Added: Enhanced, faster browsing code (major code refactoring)
24+ Added: Allow refreshing a single machine in the network neighbourhood
25+ Added: Allow start/stop of the EVFSCTL.EXE daemon
26+ Added: Allow to erase old logfiles before starting EVFSCTL.EXE
27+ Added: Find primary domain controller (and give it a special icon)
28+ Added: Find domain master browser
29+ Added: Find local master browser
30+ Added: Enhanced info box (MAC, IP-Address, server role)
31+ Added: Optionally add TRAC Wiki markup to "About"-data for clipboard
32* Changed: Use Rich Walsh's look4dll.exe to find the used ndpsmb.dll
33* Changed: Increase timer delay (n*2) for non responding machines
34* Changed: Use Alex Taylor's Warp4-Style notebook for the right pane,
35 convert global settings and advanced connection options
36 from windows into notebook pages
37! Fixed: Numerous small bugs/omissions
38! Fixed: Creating lame upcase tables filtered
39! Fixed: Do not run nmblookup.exe twice in the foreground
40- Removed: Bottom button row
41- Removed: View Menu
42
43Version 2.1.3 2011-??-??
44+ Added: Help button on network neighbourhood view
45+ Added: Help button on connection details view
46! Fixed: Fetch credentials in case "Authenticate for browsing" is enabled
47 and no credentials were entered before
48
49Version 2.1.2 2011-06-13
50+ Added: Display some hints about what is going on in the statusbar
51+ Added: Display information about installed/connected SMB printer ports.
52! Fixed: Do not crash if manually added machines do not allow browsing
53! Fixed: Connect in network neighbourhood used selected object instead of
54 source object (eventually resulted in a connection to the wrong
55 share)
56
57Version 2.1.1 2011-03-08
58! Fixed: Finally servers always end up in the proper domain/workgroup
59
60Version 2.1.0 2011-01-18
61+ Added: Support for new CTO and CLD parameters introduced with 2.0.0 beta3
62! Fixed: Behaviour of login box did not work as designed
63! Fixed: No mount attempt if entering credentials was aborted
64! Fixed: Do not crash during "Detach all"
65- Refactoring: Streamline parameter parsing code
66- Refactoring: Remove double variables for parameters
67- Refactoring: Create Icon. stem in order to ease maintenance of icons
68- Refactoring: Common wrapper around all dynamic functions
69- Refactoring: Remove double variables for settings and options
70- Refactoring: Debug on/off option is properly done now
71
72Version 2.1 beta2 2010-12-26
73+ Added: New "About" box displays detailed version notices of all
74 client components
75+ Added: -DELAY [n] switch (as requested in Ticket #148)
76+ Added: Integrated delay into progress window upon startup
77+ Added: Throbber on progress window
78! Fixed: Do not crash on bad return value from *RxGetMount() in GetChildren
79! Fixed: "Abort" in progress window presented an uninitialized main window
80! Fixed: Logfile names were wrong in the online help
81! Fixed: Several typos (thanks to Rainer Stroebel)
82
83Version 2.1 beta1 2010-08-13
84+ Added: On-the-fly browsing on remote servers
85+ Added: Files can be "opened" during on-the-fly browsing (a mountpoint
86 is created first) - does not work properly yet!
87+ Added: Set icons of browsed files according to extender types (only most
88 often used types (EXE, OOO, PDF, generic multimedia icons - no WPS
89 mechanism for that from REXX)
90+ Added: Refresh display every 60 seconds in order to reflect changes
91 done on the command line while EVFSGUI is open
92+ Added: "Detach all" menuitem in context menu
93+ Added: "Refresh" menuitem in context menu
94! Fixed: Do not flash during refresh
95! Fixed: Workaround for uninitialized advance.!alwaysmp
96! Fixed: Do not run more than 32 smbclient.exe concurrently (EVFSGUI
97 needs Paul Ratcliffe's pr1util.dll now)
98
99Version 2.0.6 2010-08-13
100- This is 2.1.beta1 without On-the-fly-browsing on remote servers
101
102Version 2.0.5 2010-04-23
103! Fixed: Passive connections were not removed when the same connection was
104 loaded using a profile
105! Fixed: Missing NLV message if wrong file was dropped onto the left pane
106
107Version 2.0.4 2010-04-09
108! Fixed: Connection details doubled since MEMLEN etc removal.
109* Changed: Some parts of the code were refactored
110
111Version 2.0.3 2010-02-23
112+ Added: Open mountpoint as WPS object moved to a separate thread in order
113 not to block the EVFSGUI main window while waiting for a folder
114 on a slow connection to open.
115+ Added: Double-click also opens a mountpoint as WPS folder
116+ Added: Debug ON also makes hidden columns in connections details visible
117! Fixed: "Abort" button on progress window was not NLV enabled
118! Fixed: The NLV subroutine now properly falls back to the builtin
119 (bracketed) message files in case NO (not even an english
120 message file) can be found.
121! Fixed: Do not crash in Autostart dialog when no NLV file was found.
122! Fixed: Open mountpoint as WPS object fully workable
123! Fixed: Open mountpint now has a consistent behaviour with other actions
124* Changed: Open context menu item enabled for testing (experimental)
125* Changed: Show wait pointer while opening WPS folder
126* Changed: CltInit: Now scans wellknown locations for Samba binaries
127 (faster at least in theory)
128* Changed: In the 1.5.0 GA version of the plugin the MEMLEN, LOGFILE and
129 LOGLEVEL tokens are removed in order to address the problem with
130 EVFSRxGetMount() return strings - several changes in EVFSGUI were
131 required to address this change in the plugin.
132NOTE: This changes makes older profile files, both .ndc and .evp incompatible.
133 EVFSGUI can read old profiles, but only saves new profiles. The Netdrive
134 GUI does not have such a feature. Older profiles may easily be migrated
135 by editing with a text editor and removing the MEMLEN, LOGLEVEL and
136 LOGFILE tokens from the resource strings manually.
137
138Version 2.0.2 2010-01-25
139* Changed: Remove Win95/98/IBM Peer length limits from smbtree.vrs.
140+ Added: EVFSRxGetMount() returns a maximum string length of 255 for
141 resdata, if workgroup+server+share+username+password > 52 the
142 resulting resdata string will be truncated. Several workarounds
143 in ParseResourceData() added in order not completely fall over.
144
145Version 2.0.1 2010-01-12
146+ Added: Alex T.: Use 'Combined' font on DBCS systems
147! Fixed: Alex T.: Default fonts are set correctly
148! Fixed: Alex T.: Section title colours now correctly default to system settings
149! Fixed: Alex T.: Various fixes and enhancements to window resize logic
150! Fixed: Alex T.: FWidth/margin got lost on the expose list
151! Fixed: Herwig B.: Another speed up in resize logic (use marginx2 instead of
152 42 times margin * 2)
153
154Version 2.0.0 (Refresh) 2009-12-29
155* Changed: Rewrite routines to find .msg and .hlp files
156! Fixed: Set size of throbber object according to screen dimensions
157
158Version 2.0 GA 2009-12-24
159+ Added: Provide unexpected.tdb in the installer
160! Fixed: Detect trailing tabs and blanks in the temporary directory
161! Fixed: A manually added server's workgroup might be unknown in the moment
162 the dialog is populated
163
164Version 2.0 beta6 2009-12-12
165+ Added: WPI installer for Plugin, EVFSGUI and Samba Client Utilities
166 (plus variant that includes EVFS for eCS distribution).
167+ Added: New global option: Use broadcasts instead of local master browser
168+ Added: New menu entry: Save default workgroup to smb.conf
169! Fixed: Also go through double (and passive) connection check
170 if profile is loaded as a commandline parameter
171! Fixed: Migrate to enhanced NLV setup subroutines
172! Fixed: Autodetection of filesystem variant did not work properly
173! Fixed: Turn off debug console upon startup
174! Fixed: Don't crash when attempting to create the Autostart script
175! Fixed: Also create %ETC%\samba\lock directory for client
176! Fixed: Properly redraw network neighbourhood after refresh
177
178Version 2.0 beta5 2009-11-15
179+ Added: Manually entered servers are automatically integrated into the
180 network neighbourhood
181! Fixed: IP address servers (without a name) can be browsed properly now.
182! Fixed: Detect missing upcase tables (and don't fall over)
183! Fixed: If nothing is found, network neighbourhood should be empty (and
184 not display an unnamed workgroup icon).
185! Fixed: When immediate authentification for browsing was enabled, the
186 main window was not redrawn properly.
187! Fixed: Changed statusbar size (should look better)
188
189Version 2.0 beta4 2009-11-03:
190! Fixed: Do not crash on outdated temporary files
191! Fixed: Do not crash on unavailable machines
192
193Version 2.0 beta3 2009-10-29:
194! Fixed: The GUI was blocked every few seconds during network neighbourhood
195 scan. Bonus: The new code is even faster than the previous one.
196
197Version 2.0 beta2 2009-10-25:
198+ Added: English helpfile
199+ Added: German helpfile
200+ Added: French helpfile (partly done, requires completion by Guillaume)
201+ Added: Information about server dialog
202+ Added: Dialog also uses information from network neighbourhood
203+ Added: Detection of "dead" (non accessible) servers (which are still in the
204 browse list)
205* Changed: Dialog entry fields now use WarpSans Bold font (matches style of
206 other dialogs)
207! Fixed: Network neighbourhood is filled much faster than before
208! Fixed: No more share type guessing
209! Fixed: Ticket #105: Temporary files not removed
210! Fixed: Ticket #106: Icon in global settings dialog not properly aligned
211
212Version 2.0 beta1 2009-09-15:
213+ Added: Browsing code from smbmon
214+ Added: D'n'd support for file shares
215+ Added: Connection wizard dialogs
216+ Added: main menu bar
217+ Added: New advanced settings
218+ Added: "Old" 1.x look and feel
219+ Added: Main window is resizable
220+ Added: Splitbar between panels
221+ Added: Create rudimentary %ETC%\samba\smb.conf
222+ Added: Connection details view (preliminary)
223+ Added: Double connection detection using md5 hashes
224+ Added: New profile saving code
225+ Added: Remove menu option (preliminary for passive connections only)
226+ Added: smbtree.vrs: Optionally do not show hidden shares
227+ Added: smbtree.vrs: Enhanced guessicon()
228+ Added: Preliminary context menus for Browse View and Connection details view
229+ Added: "Retry" for passive connections (only manually for now)
230+ Added: Drag and drop for passive connections
231+ Added: Hide columns not useful for endusers
232+ Added: NLV enable (parts of) connection details
233+ Added: Disabled old profile saving code
234+ Added: Sort smbtree view ascending
235+ Added: Optionally turn on/off special ($) shares
236+ Added: Optionally use big icons
237+ Added: Profile files may be dropped onto the current connections container
238+ Added: Login dialog behaviour matches the one from smbusers now
239+ Added: Preliminary handling of smbtree error messages
240+ Added: Optionally save passive connections across sessions
241+ Added: French message file (thanks to Guillaume Gay)
242* Changed: Several changes in GUI style (as suggested by Alex Taylor)
243* Changed: Left align buttons in current connections panel (as suggested by
244 MrFawlty and Alex Taylor)
245* Changed: Replaced status bar by a text control (as suggested by Alex Taylor)
246 (only used for version display for now)
247* Changed: Main icon is now the one done by Alex Taylor
248* Changed: Use PM_Default_Colors for title sections (as suggested by Alex Taylor)
249* Changed: German translation of "Retry"
250* Changed: Profile behaviour: In 1.3 a new profile replaced older connections
251 on the same volume only, in 2.x a new profile is merged with the
252 old connections one.
253* Changed: Split advanced dialog should be split into connection options and
254 global options
255* Changed: Redesigned mount dialog
256* Changed: Redesigned login dialog
257* Changed: Clarified message about multiple connections
258* Changed: Rebuild required Samba Client utilities 3.0.36 with libc063
259 (instead of libc064x) (Changeset 331 level)
260! Fixed: Loading a profile presented the user a half drawn window
261! Fixed: Startup code was broken if no evfsgui.ini is present
262! Fixed: CltInit uses smbclient.exe instead of smbd.exe to find Samba binaries
263! Fixed: Message queue during resize isn't cleared (no flashing during resize)
264! Fixed: Missing NLV aware strings
265! Fixed: Don't let user edit network neighbourhood results
266! Fixed: Claiming a passive connection already exists is nonsense
267! Fixed: Disallow connecting to printers via context menu
268! Fixed: Edit and Selected menu easily got out of sync
269! Fixed: Edit and Selected menu still got out of sync, really fixed now
270! Fixed: Another missing record validation
271! Fixed: Password display broken on double connection warning
272! Fixed: Detect more printers
273! Fixed: Confirmation of removal of a single connection was missing
274! Fixed: Dropdown combobox in mount dialog was readonly
275! Fixed: Autostart mode was broken
276
277Version 1.3.7 - changes not relevant for 2.0
278
279Version 1.3.6
280! Fixed: When connecting to a complete server, the workgroup got lost during the
281 connecting process.
282Version 1.3.5
283! Fixed: Error in profile file parsing logic could lead to double entries
284 for LOGFILE and LOGLEVEL (possibly having side effects on EASUPPORT)
285Version 1.3.4
286! Fixed: Readonly connection option did not work (was not implemented)
287Version 1.3.3
288* Changed: Provide better message box for profile saving (to explain rather
289 odd behavior
290Version 1.3.2
291! Fixed: No more double drive letters in the drive letters list after mounting
292* Changed: "Workgroup/ Domain:" back to "Workgroup:"
293Version 1.3.1
294+ Added: Explanation for errors in case mount operation fails
295* Changed: "Workgroup:" to "Workgroup/ Domain:"
296Version 1.3
297+ Added: Support for the (new) ndpsmb logging feature
298+ Added: Support for the (old) ndpsmb logging feature (deactivated)
299+ Added: Save "titlebar" color across sessions
300* Changed: Merge Alex Taylor's and Herwig B.'s latest changes
301* Changed: Also display status data in hintarea when mouse cursor is over
302 the "current resources" pane
303! Fixed: Tab order in "new resource" pane
304! Fixed: Help did not work for advanced window in NLV versions
305
306Version 1.2.1 (2009-04, Herwig B.)
307+ Added: Try to restart EVFSCTL.EXE once in case it is not running.
308+ Added: Implemented support for error messages depending on return codes
309 in case of failed operations as provided from ndpsmb.dll version
310 1.5alpha2 or better.
311* Changed: Move status data of current connection into container caption
312 (Makes more sense there).
313* Changed: Show version notice in status area (at the bottom now)
314! Fixed: In case the connect operation fails on a newly created mount point,
315 the mountpoint is removed again, instead of leaving it in a zombie
316 status. That makes sense as EVFSGUI does not support the creation
317 and maintenance of empty mountpoints (the underlying EVFS (including
318 the REXX interface) supports this, but the GUI does not).
319
320Version 1.2.1 (2009-05, Alex Taylor)
321! Fixed: Main window wasn't set visible if INI file was missing.
322! Fixed: Corrected English, formatting h in helpfile.
323+ Added: Better program icon.
324
325Version 1.2 (2008-10)
326*Updated: Finally all the help files are updated to reflect all changes
327 (en, de and fr)
328!Workaround: It appears that for unknown reasons the SysDriveMap() function
329 hangs if it is used with the "FREE" and "REMOTE" flags, after it is
330 called for several times. I noticed that after I received Yuri's
331 latest Samba plugin. The problem disappears if EVFS is not installed.
332 This should be tested (and fixed) by Vitali in EVFS (probably).
333
334+ Added: In debug mode the output in the console window has time stamps now
335+ Added: Display name and version of the used IFS on "empty" mountpoints
336+ Added: Button on the autoload window (the -nogui GUI) to abort reconnection
337+ Added: Server entry field is now a drop down combo box holding all servers
338 to which connections were made with)
339+ Added: Alternatively support NetDrive for SMB shares instead of EVFS (using
340 undocumented -ndfs switch)
341* Updated: All message files
342! Fixed: Bug in my autoload code
343! Fixed: Bug in my -ndfs code (spotted by Guillaume)
344
345+ Added: Autostart EVFS connections feature via Startup folder object
346+ Added: -nogui switch (only show a small message window)
347+ Added: -autoclose switch (close eVFSGUI after 3 seconds)
348+ Added: Load profile specified on the commandline
349+ Added: Edit via context menu for mountpoints with exactly one resource
350+ Added: Context menu equivalents to the Detach and Unmount pushbuttons
351+ Added: The content of the EF_NETWORK field (aka workgroup) is saved to the
352 EVFSGUI.INI as this changes only on rare occasions (saved me a lot of
353 typing during testing)
354+ Added: Do not attach drive if has already been attached (from TODO list A.T.)
355! Fixed: Profiles supported plain passwords whereas EVFS provided encrypted
356 passwords in profile files
357! Fixed: eVFSGUI initializes itself properly now
358! Fixed: eVFSGUI would hang after displaying the message "no control program
359 found"
360! Fixed: Cleanup signal stuff ("return" after a signal is a bad thing to do!)
361! Fixed: INI file was not closed after leaving eVFSGUI
362! Fixed: When several mount points exist and the first one is removed the click
363 event routine was executed after the corresponded record was already
364 removed -> eVFSGUI crashed. As a fix the record is validated before an
365 attempt to access its data is done. If it does not exist anymore the
366 event routine is terminated without further action.
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