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Last change on this file since 665 was 665, checked in by Herwig Bauernfeind, 14 years ago

GUI-Tools: EVFSGUI 2.5.x: Continue implementing server based logon script support

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