source: trunk/guitools/evfsgui/changes@ 770

Last change on this file since 770 was 770, checked in by Herwig Bauernfeind, 12 years ago

GUI-Tools: SMBMON 2.5 helpfile skeletaon for DE and EN, several minor things

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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* Changed: Removed %% in user credential string again
46! Fixed: Ticket #185 (create %ETC%/samba/pid and fix the EA of
47 %ETC%/samba/lock)
48! Fixed: Context menu in connection details view could show wrong menu items
49! Fixed: Do not add a *-"server" to the networkneighbourhood if a workgroup
50 was mounted.
51! Fixed: Extended Help menu item was broken
52! Fixed: Refreshing a single machine added shares 2x for automatically
53 added machines
54! Fixed: Loginbox was not NLS aware
55! Fixed: Do not crash upon authenticitation if we are unable to determine the
56 connection type (yet)
57! Fixed: Numerous small bugs/omissions
58! Fixed: "Creating lame upcase tables" filtered
59! Fixed: Do not run nmblookup.exe twice in the foreground
60! Fixed: Errorhandler for parsing errors in RPC library (still not perfect)
61! Fixed: Passive connections/double connection detection does not seem
62 to work properly
63! Fixed: Server/share of connections without workgroup were stuffed into the
64 workgroup field errornously (and created a bogus entry in the network
65 neighbourhood)
66! Fixed: Minimum size was too small (reported by Alex Taylor)
67! Fixed: Blanks in sharenames messed up everything (Ticket #202)
68! Fixed: Empty credential string test did not work properly on 4OS2
69! Fixed: Never add local link addresses and localhost to LMHosts file
70 (Ticket #200)
71- Removed: Bottom button row
72- Removed: View Menu
73
74Version 2.1.3 2011-??-??
75+ Added: Help button on network neighbourhood view
76+ Added: Help button on connection details view
77! Fixed: Fetch credentials in case "Authenticate for browsing" is enabled
78 and no credentials were entered before
79
80Version 2.1.2 2011-06-13
81+ Added: Display some hints about what is going on in the statusbar
82+ Added: Display information about installed/connected SMB printer ports.
83! Fixed: Do not crash if manually added machines do not allow browsing
84! Fixed: Connect in network neighbourhood used selected object instead of
85 source object (eventually resulted in a connection to the wrong
86 share)
87
88Version 2.1.1 2011-03-08
89! Fixed: Finally servers always end up in the proper domain/workgroup
90
91Version 2.1.0 2011-01-18
92+ Added: Support for new CTO and CLD parameters introduced with 2.0.0 beta3
93! Fixed: Behaviour of login box did not work as designed
94! Fixed: No mount attempt if entering credentials was aborted
95! Fixed: Do not crash during "Detach all"
96- Refactoring: Streamline parameter parsing code
97- Refactoring: Remove double variables for parameters
98- Refactoring: Create Icon. stem in order to ease maintenance of icons
99- Refactoring: Common wrapper around all dynamic functions
100- Refactoring: Remove double variables for settings and options
101- Refactoring: Debug on/off option is properly done now
102
103Version 2.1 beta2 2010-12-26
104+ Added: New "About" box displays detailed version notices of all
105 client components
106+ Added: -DELAY [n] switch (as requested in Ticket #148)
107+ Added: Integrated delay into progress window upon startup
108+ Added: Throbber on progress window
109! Fixed: Do not crash on bad return value from *RxGetMount() in GetChildren
110! Fixed: "Abort" in progress window presented an uninitialized main window
111! Fixed: Logfile names were wrong in the online help
112! Fixed: Several typos (thanks to Rainer Stroebel)
113
114Version 2.1 beta1 2010-08-13
115+ Added: On-the-fly browsing on remote servers
116+ Added: Files can be "opened" during on-the-fly browsing (a mountpoint
117 is created first) - does not work properly yet!
118+ Added: Set icons of browsed files according to extender types (only most
119 often used types (EXE, OOO, PDF, generic multimedia icons - no WPS
120 mechanism for that from REXX)
121+ Added: Refresh display every 60 seconds in order to reflect changes
122 done on the command line while EVFSGUI is open
123+ Added: "Detach all" menuitem in context menu
124+ Added: "Refresh" menuitem in context menu
125! Fixed: Do not flash during refresh
126! Fixed: Workaround for uninitialized advance.!alwaysmp
127! Fixed: Do not run more than 32 smbclient.exe concurrently (EVFSGUI
128 needs Paul Ratcliffe's pr1util.dll now)
129
130Version 2.0.6 2010-08-13
131- This is 2.1.beta1 without On-the-fly-browsing on remote servers
132
133Version 2.0.5 2010-04-23
134! Fixed: Passive connections were not removed when the same connection was
135 loaded using a profile
136! Fixed: Missing NLV message if wrong file was dropped onto the left pane
137
138Version 2.0.4 2010-04-09
139! Fixed: Connection details doubled since MEMLEN etc removal.
140* Changed: Some parts of the code were refactored
141
142Version 2.0.3 2010-02-23
143+ Added: Open mountpoint as WPS object moved to a separate thread in order
144 not to block the EVFSGUI main window while waiting for a folder
145 on a slow connection to open.
146+ Added: Double-click also opens a mountpoint as WPS folder
147+ Added: Debug ON also makes hidden columns in connections details visible
148! Fixed: "Abort" button on progress window was not NLV enabled
149! Fixed: The NLV subroutine now properly falls back to the builtin
150 (bracketed) message files in case NO (not even an english
151 message file) can be found.
152! Fixed: Do not crash in Autostart dialog when no NLV file was found.
153! Fixed: Open mountpoint as WPS object fully workable
154! Fixed: Open mountpint now has a consistent behaviour with other actions
155* Changed: Open context menu item enabled for testing (experimental)
156* Changed: Show wait pointer while opening WPS folder
157* Changed: CltInit: Now scans wellknown locations for Samba binaries
158 (faster at least in theory)
159* Changed: In the 1.5.0 GA version of the plugin the MEMLEN, LOGFILE and
160 LOGLEVEL tokens are removed in order to address the problem with
161 EVFSRxGetMount() return strings - several changes in EVFSGUI were
162 required to address this change in the plugin.
163NOTE: This changes makes older profile files, both .ndc and .evp incompatible.
164 EVFSGUI can read old profiles, but only saves new profiles. The Netdrive
165 GUI does not have such a feature. Older profiles may easily be migrated
166 by editing with a text editor and removing the MEMLEN, LOGLEVEL and
167 LOGFILE tokens from the resource strings manually.
168
169Version 2.0.2 2010-01-25
170* Changed: Remove Win95/98/IBM Peer length limits from smbtree.vrs.
171+ Added: EVFSRxGetMount() returns a maximum string length of 255 for
172 resdata, if workgroup+server+share+username+password > 52 the
173 resulting resdata string will be truncated. Several workarounds
174 in ParseResourceData() added in order not completely fall over.
175
176Version 2.0.1 2010-01-12
177+ Added: Alex T.: Use 'Combined' font on DBCS systems
178! Fixed: Alex T.: Default fonts are set correctly
179! Fixed: Alex T.: Section title colours now correctly default to system settings
180! Fixed: Alex T.: Various fixes and enhancements to window resize logic
181! Fixed: Alex T.: FWidth/margin got lost on the expose list
182! Fixed: Herwig B.: Another speed up in resize logic (use marginx2 instead of
183 42 times margin * 2)
184
185Version 2.0.0 (Refresh) 2009-12-29
186* Changed: Rewrite routines to find .msg and .hlp files
187! Fixed: Set size of throbber object according to screen dimensions
188
189Version 2.0 GA 2009-12-24
190+ Added: Provide unexpected.tdb in the installer
191! Fixed: Detect trailing tabs and blanks in the temporary directory
192! Fixed: A manually added server's workgroup might be unknown in the moment
193 the dialog is populated
194
195Version 2.0 beta6 2009-12-12
196+ Added: WPI installer for Plugin, EVFSGUI and Samba Client Utilities
197 (plus variant that includes EVFS for eCS distribution).
198+ Added: New global option: Use broadcasts instead of local master browser
199+ Added: New menu entry: Save default workgroup to smb.conf
200! Fixed: Also go through double (and passive) connection check
201 if profile is loaded as a commandline parameter
202! Fixed: Migrate to enhanced NLV setup subroutines
203! Fixed: Autodetection of filesystem variant did not work properly
204! Fixed: Turn off debug console upon startup
205! Fixed: Don't crash when attempting to create the Autostart script
206! Fixed: Also create %ETC%\samba\lock directory for client
207! Fixed: Properly redraw network neighbourhood after refresh
208
209Version 2.0 beta5 2009-11-15
210+ Added: Manually entered servers are automatically integrated into the
211 network neighbourhood
212! Fixed: IP address servers (without a name) can be browsed properly now.
213! Fixed: Detect missing upcase tables (and don't fall over)
214! Fixed: If nothing is found, network neighbourhood should be empty (and
215 not display an unnamed workgroup icon).
216! Fixed: When immediate authentification for browsing was enabled, the
217 main window was not redrawn properly.
218! Fixed: Changed statusbar size (should look better)
219
220Version 2.0 beta4 2009-11-03:
221! Fixed: Do not crash on outdated temporary files
222! Fixed: Do not crash on unavailable machines
223
224Version 2.0 beta3 2009-10-29:
225! Fixed: The GUI was blocked every few seconds during network neighbourhood
226 scan. Bonus: The new code is even faster than the previous one.
227
228Version 2.0 beta2 2009-10-25:
229+ Added: English helpfile
230+ Added: German helpfile
231+ Added: French helpfile (partly done, requires completion by Guillaume)
232+ Added: Information about server dialog
233+ Added: Dialog also uses information from network neighbourhood
234+ Added: Detection of "dead" (non accessible) servers (which are still in the
235 browse list)
236* Changed: Dialog entry fields now use WarpSans Bold font (matches style of
237 other dialogs)
238! Fixed: Network neighbourhood is filled much faster than before
239! Fixed: No more share type guessing
240! Fixed: Ticket #105: Temporary files not removed
241! Fixed: Ticket #106: Icon in global settings dialog not properly aligned
242
243Version 2.0 beta1 2009-09-15:
244+ Added: Browsing code from smbmon
245+ Added: D'n'd support for file shares
246+ Added: Connection wizard dialogs
247+ Added: main menu bar
248+ Added: New advanced settings
249+ Added: "Old" 1.x look and feel
250+ Added: Main window is resizable
251+ Added: Splitbar between panels
252+ Added: Create rudimentary %ETC%\samba\smb.conf
253+ Added: Connection details view (preliminary)
254+ Added: Double connection detection using md5 hashes
255+ Added: New profile saving code
256+ Added: Remove menu option (preliminary for passive connections only)
257+ Added: smbtree.vrs: Optionally do not show hidden shares
258+ Added: smbtree.vrs: Enhanced guessicon()
259+ Added: Preliminary context menus for Browse View and Connection details view
260+ Added: "Retry" for passive connections (only manually for now)
261+ Added: Drag and drop for passive connections
262+ Added: Hide columns not useful for endusers
263+ Added: NLV enable (parts of) connection details
264+ Added: Disabled old profile saving code
265+ Added: Sort smbtree view ascending
266+ Added: Optionally turn on/off special ($) shares
267+ Added: Optionally use big icons
268+ Added: Profile files may be dropped onto the current connections container
269+ Added: Login dialog behaviour matches the one from smbusers now
270+ Added: Preliminary handling of smbtree error messages
271+ Added: Optionally save passive connections across sessions
272+ Added: French message file (thanks to Guillaume Gay)
273* Changed: Several changes in GUI style (as suggested by Alex Taylor)
274* Changed: Left align buttons in current connections panel (as suggested by
275 MrFawlty and Alex Taylor)
276* Changed: Replaced status bar by a text control (as suggested by Alex Taylor)
277 (only used for version display for now)
278* Changed: Main icon is now the one done by Alex Taylor
279* Changed: Use PM_Default_Colors for title sections (as suggested by Alex Taylor)
280* Changed: German translation of "Retry"
281* Changed: Profile behaviour: In 1.3 a new profile replaced older connections
282 on the same volume only, in 2.x a new profile is merged with the
283 old connections one.
284* Changed: Split advanced dialog should be split into connection options and
285 global options
286* Changed: Redesigned mount dialog
287* Changed: Redesigned login dialog
288* Changed: Clarified message about multiple connections
289* Changed: Rebuild required Samba Client utilities 3.0.36 with libc063
290 (instead of libc064x) (Changeset 331 level)
291! Fixed: Loading a profile presented the user a half drawn window
292! Fixed: Startup code was broken if no evfsgui.ini is present
293! Fixed: CltInit uses smbclient.exe instead of smbd.exe to find Samba binaries
294! Fixed: Message queue during resize isn't cleared (no flashing during resize)
295! Fixed: Missing NLV aware strings
296! Fixed: Don't let user edit network neighbourhood results
297! Fixed: Claiming a passive connection already exists is nonsense
298! Fixed: Disallow connecting to printers via context menu
299! Fixed: Edit and Selected menu easily got out of sync
300! Fixed: Edit and Selected menu still got out of sync, really fixed now
301! Fixed: Another missing record validation
302! Fixed: Password display broken on double connection warning
303! Fixed: Detect more printers
304! Fixed: Confirmation of removal of a single connection was missing
305! Fixed: Dropdown combobox in mount dialog was readonly
306! Fixed: Autostart mode was broken
307
308Version 1.3.7 - changes not relevant for 2.0
309
310Version 1.3.6
311! Fixed: When connecting to a complete server, the workgroup got lost during the
312 connecting process.
313Version 1.3.5
314! Fixed: Error in profile file parsing logic could lead to double entries
315 for LOGFILE and LOGLEVEL (possibly having side effects on EASUPPORT)
316Version 1.3.4
317! Fixed: Readonly connection option did not work (was not implemented)
318Version 1.3.3
319* Changed: Provide better message box for profile saving (to explain rather
320 odd behavior
321Version 1.3.2
322! Fixed: No more double drive letters in the drive letters list after mounting
323* Changed: "Workgroup/ Domain:" back to "Workgroup:"
324Version 1.3.1
325+ Added: Explanation for errors in case mount operation fails
326* Changed: "Workgroup:" to "Workgroup/ Domain:"
327Version 1.3
328+ Added: Support for the (new) ndpsmb logging feature
329+ Added: Support for the (old) ndpsmb logging feature (deactivated)
330+ Added: Save "titlebar" color across sessions
331* Changed: Merge Alex Taylor's and Herwig B.'s latest changes
332* Changed: Also display status data in hintarea when mouse cursor is over
333 the "current resources" pane
334! Fixed: Tab order in "new resource" pane
335! Fixed: Help did not work for advanced window in NLV versions
336
337Version 1.2.1 (2009-04, Herwig B.)
338+ Added: Try to restart EVFSCTL.EXE once in case it is not running.
339+ Added: Implemented support for error messages depending on return codes
340 in case of failed operations as provided from ndpsmb.dll version
341 1.5alpha2 or better.
342* Changed: Move status data of current connection into container caption
343 (Makes more sense there).
344* Changed: Show version notice in status area (at the bottom now)
345! Fixed: In case the connect operation fails on a newly created mount point,
346 the mountpoint is removed again, instead of leaving it in a zombie
347 status. That makes sense as EVFSGUI does not support the creation
348 and maintenance of empty mountpoints (the underlying EVFS (including
349 the REXX interface) supports this, but the GUI does not).
350
351Version 1.2.1 (2009-05, Alex Taylor)
352! Fixed: Main window wasn't set visible if INI file was missing.
353! Fixed: Corrected English, formatting h in helpfile.
354+ Added: Better program icon.
355
356Version 1.2 (2008-10)
357*Updated: Finally all the help files are updated to reflect all changes
358 (en, de and fr)
359!Workaround: It appears that for unknown reasons the SysDriveMap() function
360 hangs if it is used with the "FREE" and "REMOTE" flags, after it is
361 called for several times. I noticed that after I received Yuri's
362 latest Samba plugin. The problem disappears if EVFS is not installed.
363 This should be tested (and fixed) by Vitali in EVFS (probably).
364
365+ Added: In debug mode the output in the console window has time stamps now
366+ Added: Display name and version of the used IFS on "empty" mountpoints
367+ Added: Button on the autoload window (the -nogui GUI) to abort reconnection
368+ Added: Server entry field is now a drop down combo box holding all servers
369 to which connections were made with)
370+ Added: Alternatively support NetDrive for SMB shares instead of EVFS (using
371 undocumented -ndfs switch)
372* Updated: All message files
373! Fixed: Bug in my autoload code
374! Fixed: Bug in my -ndfs code (spotted by Guillaume)
375
376+ Added: Autostart EVFS connections feature via Startup folder object
377+ Added: -nogui switch (only show a small message window)
378+ Added: -autoclose switch (close eVFSGUI after 3 seconds)
379+ Added: Load profile specified on the commandline
380+ Added: Edit via context menu for mountpoints with exactly one resource
381+ Added: Context menu equivalents to the Detach and Unmount pushbuttons
382+ Added: The content of the EF_NETWORK field (aka workgroup) is saved to the
383 EVFSGUI.INI as this changes only on rare occasions (saved me a lot of
384 typing during testing)
385+ Added: Do not attach drive if has already been attached (from TODO list A.T.)
386! Fixed: Profiles supported plain passwords whereas EVFS provided encrypted
387 passwords in profile files
388! Fixed: eVFSGUI initializes itself properly now
389! Fixed: eVFSGUI would hang after displaying the message "no control program
390 found"
391! Fixed: Cleanup signal stuff ("return" after a signal is a bad thing to do!)
392! Fixed: INI file was not closed after leaving eVFSGUI
393! Fixed: When several mount points exist and the first one is removed the click
394 event routine was executed after the corresponded record was already
395 removed -> eVFSGUI crashed. As a fix the record is validated before an
396 attempt to access its data is done. If it does not exist anymore the
397 event routine is terminated without further action.
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