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Last change on this file since 675 was 675, checked in by Herwig Bauernfeind, 14 years ago

GUI-Tools: EVFSGUI 2.5.x: Several fixes and additions (including fix for Ticket #185)

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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 2012-??-??
18+ Added: -timesync switch, allows time sync using commandline
19+ Added: Support time synchronisation (requires new net.exe)
20+ Added: Error handler for missing REXX DLLs
21+ Added: Identify user using RPC library
22+ Added: Icon on login window depends upon connection type
23+ Added: Allow removing stored credentials from memory
24+ Added: Optionally store credentials in memory until next reboot
25+ Added: Properly verify all manually entered IP addresses
26+ Added: Connection speedup: Allow configuration of name resolve order
27+ Added: Connection speedup: Allow configuration of WINS server
28+ Added: Connection speedup: Optionally create/maintain LMHosts automagically
29+ Added: Enhanced, faster browsing code (major code refactoring)
30+ Added: Allow refreshing a single machine in the network neighbourhood
31+ Added: Allow start/stop of the EVFSCTL.EXE daemon
32+ Added: Allow to erase old logfiles before starting EVFSCTL.EXE
33+ Added: Find primary domain controller (and give it a special icon)
34+ Added: Find domain master browser
35+ Added: Find local master browser
36+ Added: Enhanced info box (MAC, IP-Address, server role, capabilities)
37+ Added: Optionally add TRAC Wiki markup to "About"-data for clipboard
38* Changed: Use Rich Walsh's look4dll.exe to find the used ndpsmb.dll
39* Changed: Increase timer delay (n*2) for non responding machines
40* Changed: Use Alex Taylor's Warp4-Style notebook for the right pane,
41 convert global settings and advanced connection options
42 from windows into notebook pages
43! Fixed: Ticket #185 (create %ETC%/samba/pid and fix the EA of
44 %ETC%/samba/lock)
45! Fixed: Context menu in connection details view could show wrong menu items
46! Fixed: Do not add a *-"server" to the networkneighbourhood if a workgroup
47 was mounted.
48! Fixed: Extended Help menu item was broken
49! Fixed: Refreshing a single machine added shares 2x for automatically
50 added machines
51! Fixed: Loginbox was not NLS aware
52! Fixed: Numerous small bugs/omissions
53! Fixed: "Creating lame upcase tables" filtered
54! Fixed: Do not run nmblookup.exe twice in the foreground
55! Fixed: Errorhandler for parsing errors in RPC library (still not perfect)
56- Removed: Bottom button row
57- Removed: View Menu
58
59Version 2.1.3 2011-??-??
60+ Added: Help button on network neighbourhood view
61+ Added: Help button on connection details view
62! Fixed: Fetch credentials in case "Authenticate for browsing" is enabled
63 and no credentials were entered before
64
65Version 2.1.2 2011-06-13
66+ Added: Display some hints about what is going on in the statusbar
67+ Added: Display information about installed/connected SMB printer ports.
68! Fixed: Do not crash if manually added machines do not allow browsing
69! Fixed: Connect in network neighbourhood used selected object instead of
70 source object (eventually resulted in a connection to the wrong
71 share)
72
73Version 2.1.1 2011-03-08
74! Fixed: Finally servers always end up in the proper domain/workgroup
75
76Version 2.1.0 2011-01-18
77+ Added: Support for new CTO and CLD parameters introduced with 2.0.0 beta3
78! Fixed: Behaviour of login box did not work as designed
79! Fixed: No mount attempt if entering credentials was aborted
80! Fixed: Do not crash during "Detach all"
81- Refactoring: Streamline parameter parsing code
82- Refactoring: Remove double variables for parameters
83- Refactoring: Create Icon. stem in order to ease maintenance of icons
84- Refactoring: Common wrapper around all dynamic functions
85- Refactoring: Remove double variables for settings and options
86- Refactoring: Debug on/off option is properly done now
87
88Version 2.1 beta2 2010-12-26
89+ Added: New "About" box displays detailed version notices of all
90 client components
91+ Added: -DELAY [n] switch (as requested in Ticket #148)
92+ Added: Integrated delay into progress window upon startup
93+ Added: Throbber on progress window
94! Fixed: Do not crash on bad return value from *RxGetMount() in GetChildren
95! Fixed: "Abort" in progress window presented an uninitialized main window
96! Fixed: Logfile names were wrong in the online help
97! Fixed: Several typos (thanks to Rainer Stroebel)
98
99Version 2.1 beta1 2010-08-13
100+ Added: On-the-fly browsing on remote servers
101+ Added: Files can be "opened" during on-the-fly browsing (a mountpoint
102 is created first) - does not work properly yet!
103+ Added: Set icons of browsed files according to extender types (only most
104 often used types (EXE, OOO, PDF, generic multimedia icons - no WPS
105 mechanism for that from REXX)
106+ Added: Refresh display every 60 seconds in order to reflect changes
107 done on the command line while EVFSGUI is open
108+ Added: "Detach all" menuitem in context menu
109+ Added: "Refresh" menuitem in context menu
110! Fixed: Do not flash during refresh
111! Fixed: Workaround for uninitialized advance.!alwaysmp
112! Fixed: Do not run more than 32 smbclient.exe concurrently (EVFSGUI
113 needs Paul Ratcliffe's pr1util.dll now)
114
115Version 2.0.6 2010-08-13
116- This is 2.1.beta1 without On-the-fly-browsing on remote servers
117
118Version 2.0.5 2010-04-23
119! Fixed: Passive connections were not removed when the same connection was
120 loaded using a profile
121! Fixed: Missing NLV message if wrong file was dropped onto the left pane
122
123Version 2.0.4 2010-04-09
124! Fixed: Connection details doubled since MEMLEN etc removal.
125* Changed: Some parts of the code were refactored
126
127Version 2.0.3 2010-02-23
128+ Added: Open mountpoint as WPS object moved to a separate thread in order
129 not to block the EVFSGUI main window while waiting for a folder
130 on a slow connection to open.
131+ Added: Double-click also opens a mountpoint as WPS folder
132+ Added: Debug ON also makes hidden columns in connections details visible
133! Fixed: "Abort" button on progress window was not NLV enabled
134! Fixed: The NLV subroutine now properly falls back to the builtin
135 (bracketed) message files in case NO (not even an english
136 message file) can be found.
137! Fixed: Do not crash in Autostart dialog when no NLV file was found.
138! Fixed: Open mountpoint as WPS object fully workable
139! Fixed: Open mountpint now has a consistent behaviour with other actions
140* Changed: Open context menu item enabled for testing (experimental)
141* Changed: Show wait pointer while opening WPS folder
142* Changed: CltInit: Now scans wellknown locations for Samba binaries
143 (faster at least in theory)
144* Changed: In the 1.5.0 GA version of the plugin the MEMLEN, LOGFILE and
145 LOGLEVEL tokens are removed in order to address the problem with
146 EVFSRxGetMount() return strings - several changes in EVFSGUI were
147 required to address this change in the plugin.
148NOTE: This changes makes older profile files, both .ndc and .evp incompatible.
149 EVFSGUI can read old profiles, but only saves new profiles. The Netdrive
150 GUI does not have such a feature. Older profiles may easily be migrated
151 by editing with a text editor and removing the MEMLEN, LOGLEVEL and
152 LOGFILE tokens from the resource strings manually.
153
154Version 2.0.2 2010-01-25
155* Changed: Remove Win95/98/IBM Peer length limits from smbtree.vrs.
156+ Added: EVFSRxGetMount() returns a maximum string length of 255 for
157 resdata, if workgroup+server+share+username+password > 52 the
158 resulting resdata string will be truncated. Several workarounds
159 in ParseResourceData() added in order not completely fall over.
160
161Version 2.0.1 2010-01-12
162+ Added: Alex T.: Use 'Combined' font on DBCS systems
163! Fixed: Alex T.: Default fonts are set correctly
164! Fixed: Alex T.: Section title colours now correctly default to system settings
165! Fixed: Alex T.: Various fixes and enhancements to window resize logic
166! Fixed: Alex T.: FWidth/margin got lost on the expose list
167! Fixed: Herwig B.: Another speed up in resize logic (use marginx2 instead of
168 42 times margin * 2)
169
170Version 2.0.0 (Refresh) 2009-12-29
171* Changed: Rewrite routines to find .msg and .hlp files
172! Fixed: Set size of throbber object according to screen dimensions
173
174Version 2.0 GA 2009-12-24
175+ Added: Provide unexpected.tdb in the installer
176! Fixed: Detect trailing tabs and blanks in the temporary directory
177! Fixed: A manually added server's workgroup might be unknown in the moment
178 the dialog is populated
179
180Version 2.0 beta6 2009-12-12
181+ Added: WPI installer for Plugin, EVFSGUI and Samba Client Utilities
182 (plus variant that includes EVFS for eCS distribution).
183+ Added: New global option: Use broadcasts instead of local master browser
184+ Added: New menu entry: Save default workgroup to smb.conf
185! Fixed: Also go through double (and passive) connection check
186 if profile is loaded as a commandline parameter
187! Fixed: Migrate to enhanced NLV setup subroutines
188! Fixed: Autodetection of filesystem variant did not work properly
189! Fixed: Turn off debug console upon startup
190! Fixed: Don't crash when attempting to create the Autostart script
191! Fixed: Also create %ETC%\samba\lock directory for client
192! Fixed: Properly redraw network neighbourhood after refresh
193
194Version 2.0 beta5 2009-11-15
195+ Added: Manually entered servers are automatically integrated into the
196 network neighbourhood
197! Fixed: IP address servers (without a name) can be browsed properly now.
198! Fixed: Detect missing upcase tables (and don't fall over)
199! Fixed: If nothing is found, network neighbourhood should be empty (and
200 not display an unnamed workgroup icon).
201! Fixed: When immediate authentification for browsing was enabled, the
202 main window was not redrawn properly.
203! Fixed: Changed statusbar size (should look better)
204
205Version 2.0 beta4 2009-11-03:
206! Fixed: Do not crash on outdated temporary files
207! Fixed: Do not crash on unavailable machines
208
209Version 2.0 beta3 2009-10-29:
210! Fixed: The GUI was blocked every few seconds during network neighbourhood
211 scan. Bonus: The new code is even faster than the previous one.
212
213Version 2.0 beta2 2009-10-25:
214+ Added: English helpfile
215+ Added: German helpfile
216+ Added: French helpfile (partly done, requires completion by Guillaume)
217+ Added: Information about server dialog
218+ Added: Dialog also uses information from network neighbourhood
219+ Added: Detection of "dead" (non accessible) servers (which are still in the
220 browse list)
221* Changed: Dialog entry fields now use WarpSans Bold font (matches style of
222 other dialogs)
223! Fixed: Network neighbourhood is filled much faster than before
224! Fixed: No more share type guessing
225! Fixed: Ticket #105: Temporary files not removed
226! Fixed: Ticket #106: Icon in global settings dialog not properly aligned
227
228Version 2.0 beta1 2009-09-15:
229+ Added: Browsing code from smbmon
230+ Added: D'n'd support for file shares
231+ Added: Connection wizard dialogs
232+ Added: main menu bar
233+ Added: New advanced settings
234+ Added: "Old" 1.x look and feel
235+ Added: Main window is resizable
236+ Added: Splitbar between panels
237+ Added: Create rudimentary %ETC%\samba\smb.conf
238+ Added: Connection details view (preliminary)
239+ Added: Double connection detection using md5 hashes
240+ Added: New profile saving code
241+ Added: Remove menu option (preliminary for passive connections only)
242+ Added: smbtree.vrs: Optionally do not show hidden shares
243+ Added: smbtree.vrs: Enhanced guessicon()
244+ Added: Preliminary context menus for Browse View and Connection details view
245+ Added: "Retry" for passive connections (only manually for now)
246+ Added: Drag and drop for passive connections
247+ Added: Hide columns not useful for endusers
248+ Added: NLV enable (parts of) connection details
249+ Added: Disabled old profile saving code
250+ Added: Sort smbtree view ascending
251+ Added: Optionally turn on/off special ($) shares
252+ Added: Optionally use big icons
253+ Added: Profile files may be dropped onto the current connections container
254+ Added: Login dialog behaviour matches the one from smbusers now
255+ Added: Preliminary handling of smbtree error messages
256+ Added: Optionally save passive connections across sessions
257+ Added: French message file (thanks to Guillaume Gay)
258* Changed: Several changes in GUI style (as suggested by Alex Taylor)
259* Changed: Left align buttons in current connections panel (as suggested by
260 MrFawlty and Alex Taylor)
261* Changed: Replaced status bar by a text control (as suggested by Alex Taylor)
262 (only used for version display for now)
263* Changed: Main icon is now the one done by Alex Taylor
264* Changed: Use PM_Default_Colors for title sections (as suggested by Alex Taylor)
265* Changed: German translation of "Retry"
266* Changed: Profile behaviour: In 1.3 a new profile replaced older connections
267 on the same volume only, in 2.x a new profile is merged with the
268 old connections one.
269* Changed: Split advanced dialog should be split into connection options and
270 global options
271* Changed: Redesigned mount dialog
272* Changed: Redesigned login dialog
273* Changed: Clarified message about multiple connections
274* Changed: Rebuild required Samba Client utilities 3.0.36 with libc063
275 (instead of libc064x) (Changeset 331 level)
276! Fixed: Loading a profile presented the user a half drawn window
277! Fixed: Startup code was broken if no evfsgui.ini is present
278! Fixed: CltInit uses smbclient.exe instead of smbd.exe to find Samba binaries
279! Fixed: Message queue during resize isn't cleared (no flashing during resize)
280! Fixed: Missing NLV aware strings
281! Fixed: Don't let user edit network neighbourhood results
282! Fixed: Claiming a passive connection already exists is nonsense
283! Fixed: Disallow connecting to printers via context menu
284! Fixed: Edit and Selected menu easily got out of sync
285! Fixed: Edit and Selected menu still got out of sync, really fixed now
286! Fixed: Another missing record validation
287! Fixed: Password display broken on double connection warning
288! Fixed: Detect more printers
289! Fixed: Confirmation of removal of a single connection was missing
290! Fixed: Dropdown combobox in mount dialog was readonly
291! Fixed: Autostart mode was broken
292
293Version 1.3.7 - changes not relevant for 2.0
294
295Version 1.3.6
296! Fixed: When connecting to a complete server, the workgroup got lost during the
297 connecting process.
298Version 1.3.5
299! Fixed: Error in profile file parsing logic could lead to double entries
300 for LOGFILE and LOGLEVEL (possibly having side effects on EASUPPORT)
301Version 1.3.4
302! Fixed: Readonly connection option did not work (was not implemented)
303Version 1.3.3
304* Changed: Provide better message box for profile saving (to explain rather
305 odd behavior
306Version 1.3.2
307! Fixed: No more double drive letters in the drive letters list after mounting
308* Changed: "Workgroup/ Domain:" back to "Workgroup:"
309Version 1.3.1
310+ Added: Explanation for errors in case mount operation fails
311* Changed: "Workgroup:" to "Workgroup/ Domain:"
312Version 1.3
313+ Added: Support for the (new) ndpsmb logging feature
314+ Added: Support for the (old) ndpsmb logging feature (deactivated)
315+ Added: Save "titlebar" color across sessions
316* Changed: Merge Alex Taylor's and Herwig B.'s latest changes
317* Changed: Also display status data in hintarea when mouse cursor is over
318 the "current resources" pane
319! Fixed: Tab order in "new resource" pane
320! Fixed: Help did not work for advanced window in NLV versions
321
322Version 1.2.1 (2009-04, Herwig B.)
323+ Added: Try to restart EVFSCTL.EXE once in case it is not running.
324+ Added: Implemented support for error messages depending on return codes
325 in case of failed operations as provided from ndpsmb.dll version
326 1.5alpha2 or better.
327* Changed: Move status data of current connection into container caption
328 (Makes more sense there).
329* Changed: Show version notice in status area (at the bottom now)
330! Fixed: In case the connect operation fails on a newly created mount point,
331 the mountpoint is removed again, instead of leaving it in a zombie
332 status. That makes sense as EVFSGUI does not support the creation
333 and maintenance of empty mountpoints (the underlying EVFS (including
334 the REXX interface) supports this, but the GUI does not).
335
336Version 1.2.1 (2009-05, Alex Taylor)
337! Fixed: Main window wasn't set visible if INI file was missing.
338! Fixed: Corrected English, formatting h in helpfile.
339+ Added: Better program icon.
340
341Version 1.2 (2008-10)
342*Updated: Finally all the help files are updated to reflect all changes
343 (en, de and fr)
344!Workaround: It appears that for unknown reasons the SysDriveMap() function
345 hangs if it is used with the "FREE" and "REMOTE" flags, after it is
346 called for several times. I noticed that after I received Yuri's
347 latest Samba plugin. The problem disappears if EVFS is not installed.
348 This should be tested (and fixed) by Vitali in EVFS (probably).
349
350+ Added: In debug mode the output in the console window has time stamps now
351+ Added: Display name and version of the used IFS on "empty" mountpoints
352+ Added: Button on the autoload window (the -nogui GUI) to abort reconnection
353+ Added: Server entry field is now a drop down combo box holding all servers
354 to which connections were made with)
355+ Added: Alternatively support NetDrive for SMB shares instead of EVFS (using
356 undocumented -ndfs switch)
357* Updated: All message files
358! Fixed: Bug in my autoload code
359! Fixed: Bug in my -ndfs code (spotted by Guillaume)
360
361+ Added: Autostart EVFS connections feature via Startup folder object
362+ Added: -nogui switch (only show a small message window)
363+ Added: -autoclose switch (close eVFSGUI after 3 seconds)
364+ Added: Load profile specified on the commandline
365+ Added: Edit via context menu for mountpoints with exactly one resource
366+ Added: Context menu equivalents to the Detach and Unmount pushbuttons
367+ Added: The content of the EF_NETWORK field (aka workgroup) is saved to the
368 EVFSGUI.INI as this changes only on rare occasions (saved me a lot of
369 typing during testing)
370+ Added: Do not attach drive if has already been attached (from TODO list A.T.)
371! Fixed: Profiles supported plain passwords whereas EVFS provided encrypted
372 passwords in profile files
373! Fixed: eVFSGUI initializes itself properly now
374! Fixed: eVFSGUI would hang after displaying the message "no control program
375 found"
376! Fixed: Cleanup signal stuff ("return" after a signal is a bad thing to do!)
377! Fixed: INI file was not closed after leaving eVFSGUI
378! Fixed: When several mount points exist and the first one is removed the click
379 event routine was executed after the corresponded record was already
380 removed -> eVFSGUI crashed. As a fix the record is validated before an
381 attempt to access its data is done. If it does not exist anymore the
382 event routine is terminated without further action.
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