source: trunk/guitools/evfsgui/changes@ 797

Last change on this file since 797 was 797, checked in by Herwig Bauernfeind, 12 years ago

EVFSGUI 2.5: Browsing enhancements

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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 when master browser suffers from broken databases
17+ Added: If browsing is not allowed for user, retry as guest (useful for print
18 servers)
19+ Added: Detect eComStation OS Version
20+ Added: Show for who we are waiting
21+ Added: -timesync switch, allows time sync using commandline
22+ Added: Support time synchronisation (requires new net.exe)
23+ Added: Error handler for missing REXX DLLs
24+ Added: Identify user using RPC library
25+ Added: Indicate by "LED" whether credentials are stored or not
26+ Added: Click on "LED" to remove credentials from memory
27+ Added: Icon on login window depends upon connection type
28+ Added: Allow removing stored credentials from memory
29+ Added: Optionally store credentials in memory until next reboot
30+ Added: Properly verify all manually entered IP addresses
31+ Added: Connection speedup: Allow configuration of name resolve order
32+ Added: Connection speedup: Allow configuration of WINS server
33+ Added: Connection speedup: Optionally create/maintain LMHosts automagically
34+ Added: Enhanced, faster browsing code (major code refactoring)
35+ Added: Allow refreshing a single machine in the network neighbourhood
36+ Added: Allow start/stop of the EVFSCTL.EXE daemon
37+ Added: Allow to erase old logfiles before starting EVFSCTL.EXE
38+ Added: Find primary domain controller (and give it a special icon)
39+ Added: Find domain master browser
40+ Added: Find local master browser
41+ Added: Enhanced info box (MAC, IP-Address, server role, capabilities)
42+ Added: Optionally add TRAC Wiki markup to "About"-data for clipboard
43* Changed: Use Rich Walsh's look4dll.exe to find the used ndpsmb.dll
44* Changed: Increase timer delay (n*2) for non responding machines
45* Changed: Use Alex Taylor's Warp4-Style notebook for the right pane,
46 convert global settings and advanced connection options
47 from windows into notebook pages
48! Fixed: Ticket #185 (create %ETC%/samba/pid and fix the EA of
49 %ETC%/samba/lock)
50! Fixed: Context menu in connection details view could show wrong menu items
51! Fixed: Do not add a *-"server" to the networkneighbourhood if a workgroup
52 was mounted.
53! Fixed: Extended Help menu item was broken
54! Fixed: Refreshing a single machine added shares 2x for automatically
55 added machines
56! Fixed: Loginbox was not NLS aware
57! Fixed: Do not crash upon authenticitation if we are unable to determine the
58 connection type (yet)
59! Fixed: Numerous small bugs/omissions
60! Fixed: "Creating lame upcase tables" filtered
61! Fixed: "TDB(" filtered
62! Fixed: Do not run nmblookup.exe twice in the foreground
63! Fixed: Errorhandler for parsing errors in RPC library (still not perfect)
64! Fixed: Passive connections/double connection detection does not seem
65 to work properly
66! Fixed: Server/share of connections without workgroup were stuffed into the
67 workgroup field errornously (and created a bogus entry in the network
68 neighbourhood)
69! Fixed: Minimum size was too small (reported by Alex Taylor)
70! Fixed: Blanks in sharenames messed up everything (Ticket #202)
71! Fixed: Empty credential string test did not work properly on 4OS2
72! Fixed: Never add local link addresses and localhost to LMHosts file
73 (Ticket #200)
74! Fixed: Add workaround for % vs. %% issue on smbclient.exe
75! Fixed: Populate TabbedDialog pages earlier during startup
76- Removed: Bottom button row
77- Removed: View Menu
78
79Version 2.1.3 2011-??-??
80+ Added: Help button on network neighbourhood view
81+ Added: Help button on connection details view
82! Fixed: Fetch credentials in case "Authenticate for browsing" is enabled
83 and no credentials were entered before
84
85Version 2.1.2 2011-06-13
86+ Added: Display some hints about what is going on in the statusbar
87+ Added: Display information about installed/connected SMB printer ports.
88! Fixed: Do not crash if manually added machines do not allow browsing
89! Fixed: Connect in network neighbourhood used selected object instead of
90 source object (eventually resulted in a connection to the wrong
91 share)
92
93Version 2.1.1 2011-03-08
94! Fixed: Finally servers always end up in the proper domain/workgroup
95
96Version 2.1.0 2011-01-18
97+ Added: Support for new CTO and CLD parameters introduced with 2.0.0 beta3
98! Fixed: Behaviour of login box did not work as designed
99! Fixed: No mount attempt if entering credentials was aborted
100! Fixed: Do not crash during "Detach all"
101- Refactoring: Streamline parameter parsing code
102- Refactoring: Remove double variables for parameters
103- Refactoring: Create Icon. stem in order to ease maintenance of icons
104- Refactoring: Common wrapper around all dynamic functions
105- Refactoring: Remove double variables for settings and options
106- Refactoring: Debug on/off option is properly done now
107
108Version 2.1 beta2 2010-12-26
109+ Added: New "About" box displays detailed version notices of all
110 client components
111+ Added: -DELAY [n] switch (as requested in Ticket #148)
112+ Added: Integrated delay into progress window upon startup
113+ Added: Throbber on progress window
114! Fixed: Do not crash on bad return value from *RxGetMount() in GetChildren
115! Fixed: "Abort" in progress window presented an uninitialized main window
116! Fixed: Logfile names were wrong in the online help
117! Fixed: Several typos (thanks to Rainer Stroebel)
118
119Version 2.1 beta1 2010-08-13
120+ Added: On-the-fly browsing on remote servers
121+ Added: Files can be "opened" during on-the-fly browsing (a mountpoint
122 is created first) - does not work properly yet!
123+ Added: Set icons of browsed files according to extender types (only most
124 often used types (EXE, OOO, PDF, generic multimedia icons - no WPS
125 mechanism for that from REXX)
126+ Added: Refresh display every 60 seconds in order to reflect changes
127 done on the command line while EVFSGUI is open
128+ Added: "Detach all" menuitem in context menu
129+ Added: "Refresh" menuitem in context menu
130! Fixed: Do not flash during refresh
131! Fixed: Workaround for uninitialized advance.!alwaysmp
132! Fixed: Do not run more than 32 smbclient.exe concurrently (EVFSGUI
133 needs Paul Ratcliffe's pr1util.dll now)
134
135Version 2.0.6 2010-08-13
136- This is 2.1.beta1 without On-the-fly-browsing on remote servers
137
138Version 2.0.5 2010-04-23
139! Fixed: Passive connections were not removed when the same connection was
140 loaded using a profile
141! Fixed: Missing NLV message if wrong file was dropped onto the left pane
142
143Version 2.0.4 2010-04-09
144! Fixed: Connection details doubled since MEMLEN etc removal.
145* Changed: Some parts of the code were refactored
146
147Version 2.0.3 2010-02-23
148+ Added: Open mountpoint as WPS object moved to a separate thread in order
149 not to block the EVFSGUI main window while waiting for a folder
150 on a slow connection to open.
151+ Added: Double-click also opens a mountpoint as WPS folder
152+ Added: Debug ON also makes hidden columns in connections details visible
153! Fixed: "Abort" button on progress window was not NLV enabled
154! Fixed: The NLV subroutine now properly falls back to the builtin
155 (bracketed) message files in case NO (not even an english
156 message file) can be found.
157! Fixed: Do not crash in Autostart dialog when no NLV file was found.
158! Fixed: Open mountpoint as WPS object fully workable
159! Fixed: Open mountpint now has a consistent behaviour with other actions
160* Changed: Open context menu item enabled for testing (experimental)
161* Changed: Show wait pointer while opening WPS folder
162* Changed: CltInit: Now scans wellknown locations for Samba binaries
163 (faster at least in theory)
164* Changed: In the 1.5.0 GA version of the plugin the MEMLEN, LOGFILE and
165 LOGLEVEL tokens are removed in order to address the problem with
166 EVFSRxGetMount() return strings - several changes in EVFSGUI were
167 required to address this change in the plugin.
168NOTE: This changes makes older profile files, both .ndc and .evp incompatible.
169 EVFSGUI can read old profiles, but only saves new profiles. The Netdrive
170 GUI does not have such a feature. Older profiles may easily be migrated
171 by editing with a text editor and removing the MEMLEN, LOGLEVEL and
172 LOGFILE tokens from the resource strings manually.
173
174Version 2.0.2 2010-01-25
175* Changed: Remove Win95/98/IBM Peer length limits from smbtree.vrs.
176+ Added: EVFSRxGetMount() returns a maximum string length of 255 for
177 resdata, if workgroup+server+share+username+password > 52 the
178 resulting resdata string will be truncated. Several workarounds
179 in ParseResourceData() added in order not completely fall over.
180
181Version 2.0.1 2010-01-12
182+ Added: Alex T.: Use 'Combined' font on DBCS systems
183! Fixed: Alex T.: Default fonts are set correctly
184! Fixed: Alex T.: Section title colours now correctly default to system settings
185! Fixed: Alex T.: Various fixes and enhancements to window resize logic
186! Fixed: Alex T.: FWidth/margin got lost on the expose list
187! Fixed: Herwig B.: Another speed up in resize logic (use marginx2 instead of
188 42 times margin * 2)
189
190Version 2.0.0 (Refresh) 2009-12-29
191* Changed: Rewrite routines to find .msg and .hlp files
192! Fixed: Set size of throbber object according to screen dimensions
193
194Version 2.0 GA 2009-12-24
195+ Added: Provide unexpected.tdb in the installer
196! Fixed: Detect trailing tabs and blanks in the temporary directory
197! Fixed: A manually added server's workgroup might be unknown in the moment
198 the dialog is populated
199
200Version 2.0 beta6 2009-12-12
201+ Added: WPI installer for Plugin, EVFSGUI and Samba Client Utilities
202 (plus variant that includes EVFS for eCS distribution).
203+ Added: New global option: Use broadcasts instead of local master browser
204+ Added: New menu entry: Save default workgroup to smb.conf
205! Fixed: Also go through double (and passive) connection check
206 if profile is loaded as a commandline parameter
207! Fixed: Migrate to enhanced NLV setup subroutines
208! Fixed: Autodetection of filesystem variant did not work properly
209! Fixed: Turn off debug console upon startup
210! Fixed: Don't crash when attempting to create the Autostart script
211! Fixed: Also create %ETC%\samba\lock directory for client
212! Fixed: Properly redraw network neighbourhood after refresh
213
214Version 2.0 beta5 2009-11-15
215+ Added: Manually entered servers are automatically integrated into the
216 network neighbourhood
217! Fixed: IP address servers (without a name) can be browsed properly now.
218! Fixed: Detect missing upcase tables (and don't fall over)
219! Fixed: If nothing is found, network neighbourhood should be empty (and
220 not display an unnamed workgroup icon).
221! Fixed: When immediate authentification for browsing was enabled, the
222 main window was not redrawn properly.
223! Fixed: Changed statusbar size (should look better)
224
225Version 2.0 beta4 2009-11-03:
226! Fixed: Do not crash on outdated temporary files
227! Fixed: Do not crash on unavailable machines
228
229Version 2.0 beta3 2009-10-29:
230! Fixed: The GUI was blocked every few seconds during network neighbourhood
231 scan. Bonus: The new code is even faster than the previous one.
232
233Version 2.0 beta2 2009-10-25:
234+ Added: English helpfile
235+ Added: German helpfile
236+ Added: French helpfile (partly done, requires completion by Guillaume)
237+ Added: Information about server dialog
238+ Added: Dialog also uses information from network neighbourhood
239+ Added: Detection of "dead" (non accessible) servers (which are still in the
240 browse list)
241* Changed: Dialog entry fields now use WarpSans Bold font (matches style of
242 other dialogs)
243! Fixed: Network neighbourhood is filled much faster than before
244! Fixed: No more share type guessing
245! Fixed: Ticket #105: Temporary files not removed
246! Fixed: Ticket #106: Icon in global settings dialog not properly aligned
247
248Version 2.0 beta1 2009-09-15:
249+ Added: Browsing code from smbmon
250+ Added: D'n'd support for file shares
251+ Added: Connection wizard dialogs
252+ Added: main menu bar
253+ Added: New advanced settings
254+ Added: "Old" 1.x look and feel
255+ Added: Main window is resizable
256+ Added: Splitbar between panels
257+ Added: Create rudimentary %ETC%\samba\smb.conf
258+ Added: Connection details view (preliminary)
259+ Added: Double connection detection using md5 hashes
260+ Added: New profile saving code
261+ Added: Remove menu option (preliminary for passive connections only)
262+ Added: smbtree.vrs: Optionally do not show hidden shares
263+ Added: smbtree.vrs: Enhanced guessicon()
264+ Added: Preliminary context menus for Browse View and Connection details view
265+ Added: "Retry" for passive connections (only manually for now)
266+ Added: Drag and drop for passive connections
267+ Added: Hide columns not useful for endusers
268+ Added: NLV enable (parts of) connection details
269+ Added: Disabled old profile saving code
270+ Added: Sort smbtree view ascending
271+ Added: Optionally turn on/off special ($) shares
272+ Added: Optionally use big icons
273+ Added: Profile files may be dropped onto the current connections container
274+ Added: Login dialog behaviour matches the one from smbusers now
275+ Added: Preliminary handling of smbtree error messages
276+ Added: Optionally save passive connections across sessions
277+ Added: French message file (thanks to Guillaume Gay)
278* Changed: Several changes in GUI style (as suggested by Alex Taylor)
279* Changed: Left align buttons in current connections panel (as suggested by
280 MrFawlty and Alex Taylor)
281* Changed: Replaced status bar by a text control (as suggested by Alex Taylor)
282 (only used for version display for now)
283* Changed: Main icon is now the one done by Alex Taylor
284* Changed: Use PM_Default_Colors for title sections (as suggested by Alex Taylor)
285* Changed: German translation of "Retry"
286* Changed: Profile behaviour: In 1.3 a new profile replaced older connections
287 on the same volume only, in 2.x a new profile is merged with the
288 old connections one.
289* Changed: Split advanced dialog should be split into connection options and
290 global options
291* Changed: Redesigned mount dialog
292* Changed: Redesigned login dialog
293* Changed: Clarified message about multiple connections
294* Changed: Rebuild required Samba Client utilities 3.0.36 with libc063
295 (instead of libc064x) (Changeset 331 level)
296! Fixed: Loading a profile presented the user a half drawn window
297! Fixed: Startup code was broken if no evfsgui.ini is present
298! Fixed: CltInit uses smbclient.exe instead of smbd.exe to find Samba binaries
299! Fixed: Message queue during resize isn't cleared (no flashing during resize)
300! Fixed: Missing NLV aware strings
301! Fixed: Don't let user edit network neighbourhood results
302! Fixed: Claiming a passive connection already exists is nonsense
303! Fixed: Disallow connecting to printers via context menu
304! Fixed: Edit and Selected menu easily got out of sync
305! Fixed: Edit and Selected menu still got out of sync, really fixed now
306! Fixed: Another missing record validation
307! Fixed: Password display broken on double connection warning
308! Fixed: Detect more printers
309! Fixed: Confirmation of removal of a single connection was missing
310! Fixed: Dropdown combobox in mount dialog was readonly
311! Fixed: Autostart mode was broken
312
313Version 1.3.7 - changes not relevant for 2.0
314
315Version 1.3.6
316! Fixed: When connecting to a complete server, the workgroup got lost during the
317 connecting process.
318Version 1.3.5
319! Fixed: Error in profile file parsing logic could lead to double entries
320 for LOGFILE and LOGLEVEL (possibly having side effects on EASUPPORT)
321Version 1.3.4
322! Fixed: Readonly connection option did not work (was not implemented)
323Version 1.3.3
324* Changed: Provide better message box for profile saving (to explain rather
325 odd behavior
326Version 1.3.2
327! Fixed: No more double drive letters in the drive letters list after mounting
328* Changed: "Workgroup/ Domain:" back to "Workgroup:"
329Version 1.3.1
330+ Added: Explanation for errors in case mount operation fails
331* Changed: "Workgroup:" to "Workgroup/ Domain:"
332Version 1.3
333+ Added: Support for the (new) ndpsmb logging feature
334+ Added: Support for the (old) ndpsmb logging feature (deactivated)
335+ Added: Save "titlebar" color across sessions
336* Changed: Merge Alex Taylor's and Herwig B.'s latest changes
337* Changed: Also display status data in hintarea when mouse cursor is over
338 the "current resources" pane
339! Fixed: Tab order in "new resource" pane
340! Fixed: Help did not work for advanced window in NLV versions
341
342Version 1.2.1 (2009-04, Herwig B.)
343+ Added: Try to restart EVFSCTL.EXE once in case it is not running.
344+ Added: Implemented support for error messages depending on return codes
345 in case of failed operations as provided from ndpsmb.dll version
346 1.5alpha2 or better.
347* Changed: Move status data of current connection into container caption
348 (Makes more sense there).
349* Changed: Show version notice in status area (at the bottom now)
350! Fixed: In case the connect operation fails on a newly created mount point,
351 the mountpoint is removed again, instead of leaving it in a zombie
352 status. That makes sense as EVFSGUI does not support the creation
353 and maintenance of empty mountpoints (the underlying EVFS (including
354 the REXX interface) supports this, but the GUI does not).
355
356Version 1.2.1 (2009-05, Alex Taylor)
357! Fixed: Main window wasn't set visible if INI file was missing.
358! Fixed: Corrected English, formatting h in helpfile.
359+ Added: Better program icon.
360
361Version 1.2 (2008-10)
362*Updated: Finally all the help files are updated to reflect all changes
363 (en, de and fr)
364!Workaround: It appears that for unknown reasons the SysDriveMap() function
365 hangs if it is used with the "FREE" and "REMOTE" flags, after it is
366 called for several times. I noticed that after I received Yuri's
367 latest Samba plugin. The problem disappears if EVFS is not installed.
368 This should be tested (and fixed) by Vitali in EVFS (probably).
369
370+ Added: In debug mode the output in the console window has time stamps now
371+ Added: Display name and version of the used IFS on "empty" mountpoints
372+ Added: Button on the autoload window (the -nogui GUI) to abort reconnection
373+ Added: Server entry field is now a drop down combo box holding all servers
374 to which connections were made with)
375+ Added: Alternatively support NetDrive for SMB shares instead of EVFS (using
376 undocumented -ndfs switch)
377* Updated: All message files
378! Fixed: Bug in my autoload code
379! Fixed: Bug in my -ndfs code (spotted by Guillaume)
380
381+ Added: Autostart EVFS connections feature via Startup folder object
382+ Added: -nogui switch (only show a small message window)
383+ Added: -autoclose switch (close eVFSGUI after 3 seconds)
384+ Added: Load profile specified on the commandline
385+ Added: Edit via context menu for mountpoints with exactly one resource
386+ Added: Context menu equivalents to the Detach and Unmount pushbuttons
387+ Added: The content of the EF_NETWORK field (aka workgroup) is saved to the
388 EVFSGUI.INI as this changes only on rare occasions (saved me a lot of
389 typing during testing)
390+ Added: Do not attach drive if has already been attached (from TODO list A.T.)
391! Fixed: Profiles supported plain passwords whereas EVFS provided encrypted
392 passwords in profile files
393! Fixed: eVFSGUI initializes itself properly now
394! Fixed: eVFSGUI would hang after displaying the message "no control program
395 found"
396! Fixed: Cleanup signal stuff ("return" after a signal is a bad thing to do!)
397! Fixed: INI file was not closed after leaving eVFSGUI
398! Fixed: When several mount points exist and the first one is removed the click
399 event routine was executed after the corresponded record was already
400 removed -> eVFSGUI crashed. As a fix the record is validated before an
401 attempt to access its data is done. If it does not exist anymore the
402 event routine is terminated without further action.
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