source: trunk/guitools/evfsgui/changes@ 765

Last change on this file since 765 was 765, checked in by Herwig Bauernfeind, 12 years ago

GUI-Tools: EVFSGUI 2.5, SMBMON 2.5 yet another place to fix Ticket #202

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1ToDo for 3.0:
2- Code refactoring 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
15Version 2.5.0 2013-??-??
16+ Added: Detect eComStation OS Version
17+ Added: Show for who we are waiting
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: Indicate by "LED" whether credentials are stored or not
23+ Added: Click on "LED" to remove credentials from memory
24+ Added: Icon on login window depends upon connection type
25+ Added: Allow removing stored credentials from memory
26+ Added: Optionally store credentials in memory until next reboot
27+ Added: Properly verify all manually entered IP addresses
28+ Added: Connection speedup: Allow configuration of name resolve order
29+ Added: Connection speedup: Allow configuration of WINS server
30+ Added: Connection speedup: Optionally create/maintain LMHosts automagically
31+ Added: Enhanced, faster browsing code (major code refactoring)
32+ Added: Allow refreshing a single machine in the network neighbourhood
33+ Added: Allow start/stop of the EVFSCTL.EXE daemon
34+ Added: Allow to erase old logfiles before starting EVFSCTL.EXE
35+ Added: Find primary domain controller (and give it a special icon)
36+ Added: Find domain master browser
37+ Added: Find local master browser
38+ Added: Enhanced info box (MAC, IP-Address, server role, capabilities)
39+ Added: Optionally add TRAC Wiki markup to "About"-data for clipboard
40* Changed: Use Rich Walsh's look4dll.exe to find the used ndpsmb.dll
41* Changed: Increase timer delay (n*2) for non responding machines
42* Changed: Use Alex Taylor's Warp4-Style notebook for the right pane,
43 convert global settings and advanced connection options
44 from windows into notebook pages
45! Fixed: Ticket #185 (create %ETC%/samba/pid and fix the EA of
46 %ETC%/samba/lock)
47! Fixed: Context menu in connection details view could show wrong menu items
48! Fixed: Do not add a *-"server" to the networkneighbourhood if a workgroup
49 was mounted.
50! Fixed: Extended Help menu item was broken
51! Fixed: Refreshing a single machine added shares 2x for automatically
52 added machines
53! Fixed: Loginbox was not NLS aware
54! Fixed: Do not crash upon authenticitation if we are unable to determine the
55 connection type (yet)
56! Fixed: Numerous small bugs/omissions
57! Fixed: "Creating lame upcase tables" filtered
58! Fixed: Do not run nmblookup.exe twice in the foreground
59! Fixed: Errorhandler for parsing errors in RPC library (still not perfect)
60! Fixed: Passive connections/double connection detection does not seem
61 to work properly
62! Fixed: Server/share of connections without workgroup were stuffed into the
63 workgroup field errornously (and created a bogus entry in the network
64 neighbourhood)
65! Fixed: Minimum size was too small (reported by Alex Taylor)
66! Fixed: Blanks in sharenames messed up everything (Ticket #202)
67- Removed: Bottom button row
68- Removed: View Menu
69
70Version 2.1.3 2011-??-??
71+ Added: Help button on network neighbourhood view
72+ Added: Help button on connection details view
73! Fixed: Fetch credentials in case "Authenticate for browsing" is enabled
74 and no credentials were entered before
75
76Version 2.1.2 2011-06-13
77+ Added: Display some hints about what is going on in the statusbar
78+ Added: Display information about installed/connected SMB printer ports.
79! Fixed: Do not crash if manually added machines do not allow browsing
80! Fixed: Connect in network neighbourhood used selected object instead of
81 source object (eventually resulted in a connection to the wrong
82 share)
83
84Version 2.1.1 2011-03-08
85! Fixed: Finally servers always end up in the proper domain/workgroup
86
87Version 2.1.0 2011-01-18
88+ Added: Support for new CTO and CLD parameters introduced with 2.0.0 beta3
89! Fixed: Behaviour of login box did not work as designed
90! Fixed: No mount attempt if entering credentials was aborted
91! Fixed: Do not crash during "Detach all"
92- Refactoring: Streamline parameter parsing code
93- Refactoring: Remove double variables for parameters
94- Refactoring: Create Icon. stem in order to ease maintenance of icons
95- Refactoring: Common wrapper around all dynamic functions
96- Refactoring: Remove double variables for settings and options
97- Refactoring: Debug on/off option is properly done now
98
99Version 2.1 beta2 2010-12-26
100+ Added: New "About" box displays detailed version notices of all
101 client components
102+ Added: -DELAY [n] switch (as requested in Ticket #148)
103+ Added: Integrated delay into progress window upon startup
104+ Added: Throbber on progress window
105! Fixed: Do not crash on bad return value from *RxGetMount() in GetChildren
106! Fixed: "Abort" in progress window presented an uninitialized main window
107! Fixed: Logfile names were wrong in the online help
108! Fixed: Several typos (thanks to Rainer Stroebel)
109
110Version 2.1 beta1 2010-08-13
111+ Added: On-the-fly browsing on remote servers
112+ Added: Files can be "opened" during on-the-fly browsing (a mountpoint
113 is created first) - does not work properly yet!
114+ Added: Set icons of browsed files according to extender types (only most
115 often used types (EXE, OOO, PDF, generic multimedia icons - no WPS
116 mechanism for that from REXX)
117+ Added: Refresh display every 60 seconds in order to reflect changes
118 done on the command line while EVFSGUI is open
119+ Added: "Detach all" menuitem in context menu
120+ Added: "Refresh" menuitem in context menu
121! Fixed: Do not flash during refresh
122! Fixed: Workaround for uninitialized advance.!alwaysmp
123! Fixed: Do not run more than 32 smbclient.exe concurrently (EVFSGUI
124 needs Paul Ratcliffe's pr1util.dll now)
125
126Version 2.0.6 2010-08-13
127- This is 2.1.beta1 without On-the-fly-browsing on remote servers
128
129Version 2.0.5 2010-04-23
130! Fixed: Passive connections were not removed when the same connection was
131 loaded using a profile
132! Fixed: Missing NLV message if wrong file was dropped onto the left pane
133
134Version 2.0.4 2010-04-09
135! Fixed: Connection details doubled since MEMLEN etc removal.
136* Changed: Some parts of the code were refactored
137
138Version 2.0.3 2010-02-23
139+ Added: Open mountpoint as WPS object moved to a separate thread in order
140 not to block the EVFSGUI main window while waiting for a folder
141 on a slow connection to open.
142+ Added: Double-click also opens a mountpoint as WPS folder
143+ Added: Debug ON also makes hidden columns in connections details visible
144! Fixed: "Abort" button on progress window was not NLV enabled
145! Fixed: The NLV subroutine now properly falls back to the builtin
146 (bracketed) message files in case NO (not even an english
147 message file) can be found.
148! Fixed: Do not crash in Autostart dialog when no NLV file was found.
149! Fixed: Open mountpoint as WPS object fully workable
150! Fixed: Open mountpint now has a consistent behaviour with other actions
151* Changed: Open context menu item enabled for testing (experimental)
152* Changed: Show wait pointer while opening WPS folder
153* Changed: CltInit: Now scans wellknown locations for Samba binaries
154 (faster at least in theory)
155* Changed: In the 1.5.0 GA version of the plugin the MEMLEN, LOGFILE and
156 LOGLEVEL tokens are removed in order to address the problem with
157 EVFSRxGetMount() return strings - several changes in EVFSGUI were
158 required to address this change in the plugin.
159NOTE: This changes makes older profile files, both .ndc and .evp incompatible.
160 EVFSGUI can read old profiles, but only saves new profiles. The Netdrive
161 GUI does not have such a feature. Older profiles may easily be migrated
162 by editing with a text editor and removing the MEMLEN, LOGLEVEL and
163 LOGFILE tokens from the resource strings manually.
164
165Version 2.0.2 2010-01-25
166* Changed: Remove Win95/98/IBM Peer length limits from smbtree.vrs.
167+ Added: EVFSRxGetMount() returns a maximum string length of 255 for
168 resdata, if workgroup+server+share+username+password > 52 the
169 resulting resdata string will be truncated. Several workarounds
170 in ParseResourceData() added in order not completely fall over.
171
172Version 2.0.1 2010-01-12
173+ Added: Alex T.: Use 'Combined' font on DBCS systems
174! Fixed: Alex T.: Default fonts are set correctly
175! Fixed: Alex T.: Section title colours now correctly default to system settings
176! Fixed: Alex T.: Various fixes and enhancements to window resize logic
177! Fixed: Alex T.: FWidth/margin got lost on the expose list
178! Fixed: Herwig B.: Another speed up in resize logic (use marginx2 instead of
179 42 times margin * 2)
180
181Version 2.0.0 (Refresh) 2009-12-29
182* Changed: Rewrite routines to find .msg and .hlp files
183! Fixed: Set size of throbber object according to screen dimensions
184
185Version 2.0 GA 2009-12-24
186+ Added: Provide unexpected.tdb in the installer
187! Fixed: Detect trailing tabs and blanks in the temporary directory
188! Fixed: A manually added server's workgroup might be unknown in the moment
189 the dialog is populated
190
191Version 2.0 beta6 2009-12-12
192+ Added: WPI installer for Plugin, EVFSGUI and Samba Client Utilities
193 (plus variant that includes EVFS for eCS distribution).
194+ Added: New global option: Use broadcasts instead of local master browser
195+ Added: New menu entry: Save default workgroup to smb.conf
196! Fixed: Also go through double (and passive) connection check
197 if profile is loaded as a commandline parameter
198! Fixed: Migrate to enhanced NLV setup subroutines
199! Fixed: Autodetection of filesystem variant did not work properly
200! Fixed: Turn off debug console upon startup
201! Fixed: Don't crash when attempting to create the Autostart script
202! Fixed: Also create %ETC%\samba\lock directory for client
203! Fixed: Properly redraw network neighbourhood after refresh
204
205Version 2.0 beta5 2009-11-15
206+ Added: Manually entered servers are automatically integrated into the
207 network neighbourhood
208! Fixed: IP address servers (without a name) can be browsed properly now.
209! Fixed: Detect missing upcase tables (and don't fall over)
210! Fixed: If nothing is found, network neighbourhood should be empty (and
211 not display an unnamed workgroup icon).
212! Fixed: When immediate authentification for browsing was enabled, the
213 main window was not redrawn properly.
214! Fixed: Changed statusbar size (should look better)
215
216Version 2.0 beta4 2009-11-03:
217! Fixed: Do not crash on outdated temporary files
218! Fixed: Do not crash on unavailable machines
219
220Version 2.0 beta3 2009-10-29:
221! Fixed: The GUI was blocked every few seconds during network neighbourhood
222 scan. Bonus: The new code is even faster than the previous one.
223
224Version 2.0 beta2 2009-10-25:
225+ Added: English helpfile
226+ Added: German helpfile
227+ Added: French helpfile (partly done, requires completion by Guillaume)
228+ Added: Information about server dialog
229+ Added: Dialog also uses information from network neighbourhood
230+ Added: Detection of "dead" (non accessible) servers (which are still in the
231 browse list)
232* Changed: Dialog entry fields now use WarpSans Bold font (matches style of
233 other dialogs)
234! Fixed: Network neighbourhood is filled much faster than before
235! Fixed: No more share type guessing
236! Fixed: Ticket #105: Temporary files not removed
237! Fixed: Ticket #106: Icon in global settings dialog not properly aligned
238
239Version 2.0 beta1 2009-09-15:
240+ Added: Browsing code from smbmon
241+ Added: D'n'd support for file shares
242+ Added: Connection wizard dialogs
243+ Added: main menu bar
244+ Added: New advanced settings
245+ Added: "Old" 1.x look and feel
246+ Added: Main window is resizable
247+ Added: Splitbar between panels
248+ Added: Create rudimentary %ETC%\samba\smb.conf
249+ Added: Connection details view (preliminary)
250+ Added: Double connection detection using md5 hashes
251+ Added: New profile saving code
252+ Added: Remove menu option (preliminary for passive connections only)
253+ Added: smbtree.vrs: Optionally do not show hidden shares
254+ Added: smbtree.vrs: Enhanced guessicon()
255+ Added: Preliminary context menus for Browse View and Connection details view
256+ Added: "Retry" for passive connections (only manually for now)
257+ Added: Drag and drop for passive connections
258+ Added: Hide columns not useful for endusers
259+ Added: NLV enable (parts of) connection details
260+ Added: Disabled old profile saving code
261+ Added: Sort smbtree view ascending
262+ Added: Optionally turn on/off special ($) shares
263+ Added: Optionally use big icons
264+ Added: Profile files may be dropped onto the current connections container
265+ Added: Login dialog behaviour matches the one from smbusers now
266+ Added: Preliminary handling of smbtree error messages
267+ Added: Optionally save passive connections across sessions
268+ Added: French message file (thanks to Guillaume Gay)
269* Changed: Several changes in GUI style (as suggested by Alex Taylor)
270* Changed: Left align buttons in current connections panel (as suggested by
271 MrFawlty and Alex Taylor)
272* Changed: Replaced status bar by a text control (as suggested by Alex Taylor)
273 (only used for version display for now)
274* Changed: Main icon is now the one done by Alex Taylor
275* Changed: Use PM_Default_Colors for title sections (as suggested by Alex Taylor)
276* Changed: German translation of "Retry"
277* Changed: Profile behaviour: In 1.3 a new profile replaced older connections
278 on the same volume only, in 2.x a new profile is merged with the
279 old connections one.
280* Changed: Split advanced dialog should be split into connection options and
281 global options
282* Changed: Redesigned mount dialog
283* Changed: Redesigned login dialog
284* Changed: Clarified message about multiple connections
285* Changed: Rebuild required Samba Client utilities 3.0.36 with libc063
286 (instead of libc064x) (Changeset 331 level)
287! Fixed: Loading a profile presented the user a half drawn window
288! Fixed: Startup code was broken if no evfsgui.ini is present
289! Fixed: CltInit uses smbclient.exe instead of smbd.exe to find Samba binaries
290! Fixed: Message queue during resize isn't cleared (no flashing during resize)
291! Fixed: Missing NLV aware strings
292! Fixed: Don't let user edit network neighbourhood results
293! Fixed: Claiming a passive connection already exists is nonsense
294! Fixed: Disallow connecting to printers via context menu
295! Fixed: Edit and Selected menu easily got out of sync
296! Fixed: Edit and Selected menu still got out of sync, really fixed now
297! Fixed: Another missing record validation
298! Fixed: Password display broken on double connection warning
299! Fixed: Detect more printers
300! Fixed: Confirmation of removal of a single connection was missing
301! Fixed: Dropdown combobox in mount dialog was readonly
302! Fixed: Autostart mode was broken
303
304Version 1.3.7 - changes not relevant for 2.0
305
306Version 1.3.6
307! Fixed: When connecting to a complete server, the workgroup got lost during the
308 connecting process.
309Version 1.3.5
310! Fixed: Error in profile file parsing logic could lead to double entries
311 for LOGFILE and LOGLEVEL (possibly having side effects on EASUPPORT)
312Version 1.3.4
313! Fixed: Readonly connection option did not work (was not implemented)
314Version 1.3.3
315* Changed: Provide better message box for profile saving (to explain rather
316 odd behavior
317Version 1.3.2
318! Fixed: No more double drive letters in the drive letters list after mounting
319* Changed: "Workgroup/ Domain:" back to "Workgroup:"
320Version 1.3.1
321+ Added: Explanation for errors in case mount operation fails
322* Changed: "Workgroup:" to "Workgroup/ Domain:"
323Version 1.3
324+ Added: Support for the (new) ndpsmb logging feature
325+ Added: Support for the (old) ndpsmb logging feature (deactivated)
326+ Added: Save "titlebar" color across sessions
327* Changed: Merge Alex Taylor's and Herwig B.'s latest changes
328* Changed: Also display status data in hintarea when mouse cursor is over
329 the "current resources" pane
330! Fixed: Tab order in "new resource" pane
331! Fixed: Help did not work for advanced window in NLV versions
332
333Version 1.2.1 (2009-04, Herwig B.)
334+ Added: Try to restart EVFSCTL.EXE once in case it is not running.
335+ Added: Implemented support for error messages depending on return codes
336 in case of failed operations as provided from ndpsmb.dll version
337 1.5alpha2 or better.
338* Changed: Move status data of current connection into container caption
339 (Makes more sense there).
340* Changed: Show version notice in status area (at the bottom now)
341! Fixed: In case the connect operation fails on a newly created mount point,
342 the mountpoint is removed again, instead of leaving it in a zombie
343 status. That makes sense as EVFSGUI does not support the creation
344 and maintenance of empty mountpoints (the underlying EVFS (including
345 the REXX interface) supports this, but the GUI does not).
346
347Version 1.2.1 (2009-05, Alex Taylor)
348! Fixed: Main window wasn't set visible if INI file was missing.
349! Fixed: Corrected English, formatting h in helpfile.
350+ Added: Better program icon.
351
352Version 1.2 (2008-10)
353*Updated: Finally all the help files are updated to reflect all changes
354 (en, de and fr)
355!Workaround: It appears that for unknown reasons the SysDriveMap() function
356 hangs if it is used with the "FREE" and "REMOTE" flags, after it is
357 called for several times. I noticed that after I received Yuri's
358 latest Samba plugin. The problem disappears if EVFS is not installed.
359 This should be tested (and fixed) by Vitali in EVFS (probably).
360
361+ Added: In debug mode the output in the console window has time stamps now
362+ Added: Display name and version of the used IFS on "empty" mountpoints
363+ Added: Button on the autoload window (the -nogui GUI) to abort reconnection
364+ Added: Server entry field is now a drop down combo box holding all servers
365 to which connections were made with)
366+ Added: Alternatively support NetDrive for SMB shares instead of EVFS (using
367 undocumented -ndfs switch)
368* Updated: All message files
369! Fixed: Bug in my autoload code
370! Fixed: Bug in my -ndfs code (spotted by Guillaume)
371
372+ Added: Autostart EVFS connections feature via Startup folder object
373+ Added: -nogui switch (only show a small message window)
374+ Added: -autoclose switch (close eVFSGUI after 3 seconds)
375+ Added: Load profile specified on the commandline
376+ Added: Edit via context menu for mountpoints with exactly one resource
377+ Added: Context menu equivalents to the Detach and Unmount pushbuttons
378+ Added: The content of the EF_NETWORK field (aka workgroup) is saved to the
379 EVFSGUI.INI as this changes only on rare occasions (saved me a lot of
380 typing during testing)
381+ Added: Do not attach drive if has already been attached (from TODO list A.T.)
382! Fixed: Profiles supported plain passwords whereas EVFS provided encrypted
383 passwords in profile files
384! Fixed: eVFSGUI initializes itself properly now
385! Fixed: eVFSGUI would hang after displaying the message "no control program
386 found"
387! Fixed: Cleanup signal stuff ("return" after a signal is a bad thing to do!)
388! Fixed: INI file was not closed after leaving eVFSGUI
389! Fixed: When several mount points exist and the first one is removed the click
390 event routine was executed after the corresponded record was already
391 removed -> eVFSGUI crashed. As a fix the record is validated before an
392 attempt to access its data is done. If it does not exist anymore the
393 event routine is terminated without further action.
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