source: trunk/guitools/evfsgui/changes@ 875

Last change on this file since 875 was 875, checked in by Herwig Bauernfeind, 10 years ago

GUITools: SSCC (Ticket #248), SMBMon (TDB Check page), EVFSGUI, shared library updates

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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 2014-??-??
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: Proper size on 800x600 systems (I hope)
49! Fixed: Proper message boxes for "Reset LMHosts" and "
50! Fixed: Do not crash on "Set default workgroup" anymore
51! Fixed: Context menu in connection details view could show wrong menu items
52! Fixed: Do not add a *-"server" to the networkneighbourhood if a workgroup
53 was mounted.
54! Fixed: Extended Help menu item was broken
55! Fixed: Refreshing a single machine added shares 2x for automatically
56 added machines
57! Fixed: Loginbox was not NLS aware
58! Fixed: Do not crash upon authenticitation if we are unable to determine the
59 connection type (yet)
60! Fixed: Numerous small bugs/omissions
61! Fixed: "Creating lame upcase tables" filtered
62! Fixed: "TDB(" filtered
63! Fixed: Do not run nmblookup.exe twice in the foreground
64! Fixed: Errorhandler for parsing errors in RPC library (still not perfect)
65! Fixed: Passive connections/double connection detection does not seem
66 to work properly
67! Fixed: Server/share of connections without workgroup were stuffed into the
68 workgroup field errornously (and created a bogus entry in the network
69 neighbourhood)
70! Fixed: Minimum size was too small (reported by Alex Taylor)
71! Fixed: Empty credential string test did not work properly on 4OS2
72! Fixed: Add workaround for % vs. %% issue on smbclient.exe
73! Fixed: Populate TabbedDialog pages earlier during startup
74! Fixed: Ticket #185 (create %ETC%/samba/pid and fix EA of %ETC%/samba/lock)
75! Fixed: Ticket #200 (Never add local link addresses and localhost to
76 LMHosts file)
77! Fixed: Ticket #202 (Blanks in sharenames messed up everything)
78! Fixed: Ticket #222 (Fatal error on startup in case a DLL is missing)
79! Fixed: Ticket #230 (Crash in edit menu due to non existent object)
80! Fixed: Ticket #231 (p_* variables were not initialized)
81! Fixed: Ticket #233 (NLV Startup error)
82- Removed: Bottom button row
83- Removed: View Menu
84
85Version 2.1.3 2011-??-??
86+ Added: Help button on network neighbourhood view
87+ Added: Help button on connection details view
88! Fixed: Fetch credentials in case "Authenticate for browsing" is enabled
89 and no credentials were entered before
90
91Version 2.1.2 2011-06-13
92+ Added: Display some hints about what is going on in the statusbar
93+ Added: Display information about installed/connected SMB printer ports.
94! Fixed: Do not crash if manually added machines do not allow browsing
95! Fixed: Connect in network neighbourhood used selected object instead of
96 source object (eventually resulted in a connection to the wrong
97 share)
98
99Version 2.1.1 2011-03-08
100! Fixed: Finally servers always end up in the proper domain/workgroup
101
102Version 2.1.0 2011-01-18
103+ Added: Support for new CTO and CLD parameters introduced with 2.0.0 beta3
104! Fixed: Behaviour of login box did not work as designed
105! Fixed: No mount attempt if entering credentials was aborted
106! Fixed: Do not crash during "Detach all"
107- Refactoring: Streamline parameter parsing code
108- Refactoring: Remove double variables for parameters
109- Refactoring: Create Icon. stem in order to ease maintenance of icons
110- Refactoring: Common wrapper around all dynamic functions
111- Refactoring: Remove double variables for settings and options
112- Refactoring: Debug on/off option is properly done now
113
114Version 2.1 beta2 2010-12-26
115+ Added: New "About" box displays detailed version notices of all
116 client components
117+ Added: -DELAY [n] switch (as requested in Ticket #148)
118+ Added: Integrated delay into progress window upon startup
119+ Added: Throbber on progress window
120! Fixed: Do not crash on bad return value from *RxGetMount() in GetChildren
121! Fixed: "Abort" in progress window presented an uninitialized main window
122! Fixed: Logfile names were wrong in the online help
123! Fixed: Several typos (thanks to Rainer Stroebel)
124
125Version 2.1 beta1 2010-08-13
126+ Added: On-the-fly browsing on remote servers
127+ Added: Files can be "opened" during on-the-fly browsing (a mountpoint
128 is created first) - does not work properly yet!
129+ Added: Set icons of browsed files according to extender types (only most
130 often used types (EXE, OOO, PDF, generic multimedia icons - no WPS
131 mechanism for that from REXX)
132+ Added: Refresh display every 60 seconds in order to reflect changes
133 done on the command line while EVFSGUI is open
134+ Added: "Detach all" menuitem in context menu
135+ Added: "Refresh" menuitem in context menu
136! Fixed: Do not flash during refresh
137! Fixed: Workaround for uninitialized advance.!alwaysmp
138! Fixed: Do not run more than 32 smbclient.exe concurrently (EVFSGUI
139 needs Paul Ratcliffe's pr1util.dll now)
140
141Version 2.0.6 2010-08-13
142- This is 2.1.beta1 without On-the-fly-browsing on remote servers
143
144Version 2.0.5 2010-04-23
145! Fixed: Passive connections were not removed when the same connection was
146 loaded using a profile
147! Fixed: Missing NLV message if wrong file was dropped onto the left pane
148
149Version 2.0.4 2010-04-09
150! Fixed: Connection details doubled since MEMLEN etc removal.
151* Changed: Some parts of the code were refactored
152
153Version 2.0.3 2010-02-23
154+ Added: Open mountpoint as WPS object moved to a separate thread in order
155 not to block the EVFSGUI main window while waiting for a folder
156 on a slow connection to open.
157+ Added: Double-click also opens a mountpoint as WPS folder
158+ Added: Debug ON also makes hidden columns in connections details visible
159! Fixed: "Abort" button on progress window was not NLV enabled
160! Fixed: The NLV subroutine now properly falls back to the builtin
161 (bracketed) message files in case NO (not even an english
162 message file) can be found.
163! Fixed: Do not crash in Autostart dialog when no NLV file was found.
164! Fixed: Open mountpoint as WPS object fully workable
165! Fixed: Open mountpint now has a consistent behaviour with other actions
166* Changed: Open context menu item enabled for testing (experimental)
167* Changed: Show wait pointer while opening WPS folder
168* Changed: CltInit: Now scans wellknown locations for Samba binaries
169 (faster at least in theory)
170* Changed: In the 1.5.0 GA version of the plugin the MEMLEN, LOGFILE and
171 LOGLEVEL tokens are removed in order to address the problem with
172 EVFSRxGetMount() return strings - several changes in EVFSGUI were
173 required to address this change in the plugin.
174NOTE: This changes makes older profile files, both .ndc and .evp incompatible.
175 EVFSGUI can read old profiles, but only saves new profiles. The Netdrive
176 GUI does not have such a feature. Older profiles may easily be migrated
177 by editing with a text editor and removing the MEMLEN, LOGLEVEL and
178 LOGFILE tokens from the resource strings manually.
179
180Version 2.0.2 2010-01-25
181* Changed: Remove Win95/98/IBM Peer length limits from smbtree.vrs.
182+ Added: EVFSRxGetMount() returns a maximum string length of 255 for
183 resdata, if workgroup+server+share+username+password > 52 the
184 resulting resdata string will be truncated. Several workarounds
185 in ParseResourceData() added in order not completely fall over.
186
187Version 2.0.1 2010-01-12
188+ Added: Alex T.: Use 'Combined' font on DBCS systems
189! Fixed: Alex T.: Default fonts are set correctly
190! Fixed: Alex T.: Section title colours now correctly default to system settings
191! Fixed: Alex T.: Various fixes and enhancements to window resize logic
192! Fixed: Alex T.: FWidth/margin got lost on the expose list
193! Fixed: Herwig B.: Another speed up in resize logic (use marginx2 instead of
194 42 times margin * 2)
195
196Version 2.0.0 (Refresh) 2009-12-29
197* Changed: Rewrite routines to find .msg and .hlp files
198! Fixed: Set size of throbber object according to screen dimensions
199
200Version 2.0 GA 2009-12-24
201+ Added: Provide unexpected.tdb in the installer
202! Fixed: Detect trailing tabs and blanks in the temporary directory
203! Fixed: A manually added server's workgroup might be unknown in the moment
204 the dialog is populated
205
206Version 2.0 beta6 2009-12-12
207+ Added: WPI installer for Plugin, EVFSGUI and Samba Client Utilities
208 (plus variant that includes EVFS for eCS distribution).
209+ Added: New global option: Use broadcasts instead of local master browser
210+ Added: New menu entry: Save default workgroup to smb.conf
211! Fixed: Also go through double (and passive) connection check
212 if profile is loaded as a commandline parameter
213! Fixed: Migrate to enhanced NLV setup subroutines
214! Fixed: Autodetection of filesystem variant did not work properly
215! Fixed: Turn off debug console upon startup
216! Fixed: Don't crash when attempting to create the Autostart script
217! Fixed: Also create %ETC%\samba\lock directory for client
218! Fixed: Properly redraw network neighbourhood after refresh
219
220Version 2.0 beta5 2009-11-15
221+ Added: Manually entered servers are automatically integrated into the
222 network neighbourhood
223! Fixed: IP address servers (without a name) can be browsed properly now.
224! Fixed: Detect missing upcase tables (and don't fall over)
225! Fixed: If nothing is found, network neighbourhood should be empty (and
226 not display an unnamed workgroup icon).
227! Fixed: When immediate authentification for browsing was enabled, the
228 main window was not redrawn properly.
229! Fixed: Changed statusbar size (should look better)
230
231Version 2.0 beta4 2009-11-03:
232! Fixed: Do not crash on outdated temporary files
233! Fixed: Do not crash on unavailable machines
234
235Version 2.0 beta3 2009-10-29:
236! Fixed: The GUI was blocked every few seconds during network neighbourhood
237 scan. Bonus: The new code is even faster than the previous one.
238
239Version 2.0 beta2 2009-10-25:
240+ Added: English helpfile
241+ Added: German helpfile
242+ Added: French helpfile (partly done, requires completion by Guillaume)
243+ Added: Information about server dialog
244+ Added: Dialog also uses information from network neighbourhood
245+ Added: Detection of "dead" (non accessible) servers (which are still in the
246 browse list)
247* Changed: Dialog entry fields now use WarpSans Bold font (matches style of
248 other dialogs)
249! Fixed: Network neighbourhood is filled much faster than before
250! Fixed: No more share type guessing
251! Fixed: Ticket #105: Temporary files not removed
252! Fixed: Ticket #106: Icon in global settings dialog not properly aligned
253
254Version 2.0 beta1 2009-09-15:
255+ Added: Browsing code from smbmon
256+ Added: D'n'd support for file shares
257+ Added: Connection wizard dialogs
258+ Added: main menu bar
259+ Added: New advanced settings
260+ Added: "Old" 1.x look and feel
261+ Added: Main window is resizable
262+ Added: Splitbar between panels
263+ Added: Create rudimentary %ETC%\samba\smb.conf
264+ Added: Connection details view (preliminary)
265+ Added: Double connection detection using md5 hashes
266+ Added: New profile saving code
267+ Added: Remove menu option (preliminary for passive connections only)
268+ Added: smbtree.vrs: Optionally do not show hidden shares
269+ Added: smbtree.vrs: Enhanced guessicon()
270+ Added: Preliminary context menus for Browse View and Connection details view
271+ Added: "Retry" for passive connections (only manually for now)
272+ Added: Drag and drop for passive connections
273+ Added: Hide columns not useful for endusers
274+ Added: NLV enable (parts of) connection details
275+ Added: Disabled old profile saving code
276+ Added: Sort smbtree view ascending
277+ Added: Optionally turn on/off special ($) shares
278+ Added: Optionally use big icons
279+ Added: Profile files may be dropped onto the current connections container
280+ Added: Login dialog behaviour matches the one from smbusers now
281+ Added: Preliminary handling of smbtree error messages
282+ Added: Optionally save passive connections across sessions
283+ Added: French message file (thanks to Guillaume Gay)
284* Changed: Several changes in GUI style (as suggested by Alex Taylor)
285* Changed: Left align buttons in current connections panel (as suggested by
286 MrFawlty and Alex Taylor)
287* Changed: Replaced status bar by a text control (as suggested by Alex Taylor)
288 (only used for version display for now)
289* Changed: Main icon is now the one done by Alex Taylor
290* Changed: Use PM_Default_Colors for title sections (as suggested by Alex Taylor)
291* Changed: German translation of "Retry"
292* Changed: Profile behaviour: In 1.3 a new profile replaced older connections
293 on the same volume only, in 2.x a new profile is merged with the
294 old connections one.
295* Changed: Split advanced dialog should be split into connection options and
296 global options
297* Changed: Redesigned mount dialog
298* Changed: Redesigned login dialog
299* Changed: Clarified message about multiple connections
300* Changed: Rebuild required Samba Client utilities 3.0.36 with libc063
301 (instead of libc064x) (Changeset 331 level)
302! Fixed: Loading a profile presented the user a half drawn window
303! Fixed: Startup code was broken if no evfsgui.ini is present
304! Fixed: CltInit uses smbclient.exe instead of smbd.exe to find Samba binaries
305! Fixed: Message queue during resize isn't cleared (no flashing during resize)
306! Fixed: Missing NLV aware strings
307! Fixed: Don't let user edit network neighbourhood results
308! Fixed: Claiming a passive connection already exists is nonsense
309! Fixed: Disallow connecting to printers via context menu
310! Fixed: Edit and Selected menu easily got out of sync
311! Fixed: Edit and Selected menu still got out of sync, really fixed now
312! Fixed: Another missing record validation
313! Fixed: Password display broken on double connection warning
314! Fixed: Detect more printers
315! Fixed: Confirmation of removal of a single connection was missing
316! Fixed: Dropdown combobox in mount dialog was readonly
317! Fixed: Autostart mode was broken
318
319Version 1.3.7 - changes not relevant for 2.0
320
321Version 1.3.6
322! Fixed: When connecting to a complete server, the workgroup got lost during the
323 connecting process.
324Version 1.3.5
325! Fixed: Error in profile file parsing logic could lead to double entries
326 for LOGFILE and LOGLEVEL (possibly having side effects on EASUPPORT)
327Version 1.3.4
328! Fixed: Readonly connection option did not work (was not implemented)
329Version 1.3.3
330* Changed: Provide better message box for profile saving (to explain rather
331 odd behavior
332Version 1.3.2
333! Fixed: No more double drive letters in the drive letters list after mounting
334* Changed: "Workgroup/ Domain:" back to "Workgroup:"
335Version 1.3.1
336+ Added: Explanation for errors in case mount operation fails
337* Changed: "Workgroup:" to "Workgroup/ Domain:"
338Version 1.3
339+ Added: Support for the (new) ndpsmb logging feature
340+ Added: Support for the (old) ndpsmb logging feature (deactivated)
341+ Added: Save "titlebar" color across sessions
342* Changed: Merge Alex Taylor's and Herwig B.'s latest changes
343* Changed: Also display status data in hintarea when mouse cursor is over
344 the "current resources" pane
345! Fixed: Tab order in "new resource" pane
346! Fixed: Help did not work for advanced window in NLV versions
347
348Version 1.2.1 (2009-04, Herwig B.)
349+ Added: Try to restart EVFSCTL.EXE once in case it is not running.
350+ Added: Implemented support for error messages depending on return codes
351 in case of failed operations as provided from ndpsmb.dll version
352 1.5alpha2 or better.
353* Changed: Move status data of current connection into container caption
354 (Makes more sense there).
355* Changed: Show version notice in status area (at the bottom now)
356! Fixed: In case the connect operation fails on a newly created mount point,
357 the mountpoint is removed again, instead of leaving it in a zombie
358 status. That makes sense as EVFSGUI does not support the creation
359 and maintenance of empty mountpoints (the underlying EVFS (including
360 the REXX interface) supports this, but the GUI does not).
361
362Version 1.2.1 (2009-05, Alex Taylor)
363! Fixed: Main window wasn't set visible if INI file was missing.
364! Fixed: Corrected English, formatting h in helpfile.
365+ Added: Better program icon.
366
367Version 1.2 (2008-10)
368*Updated: Finally all the help files are updated to reflect all changes
369 (en, de and fr)
370!Workaround: It appears that for unknown reasons the SysDriveMap() function
371 hangs if it is used with the "FREE" and "REMOTE" flags, after it is
372 called for several times. I noticed that after I received Yuri's
373 latest Samba plugin. The problem disappears if EVFS is not installed.
374 This should be tested (and fixed) by Vitali in EVFS (probably).
375
376+ Added: In debug mode the output in the console window has time stamps now
377+ Added: Display name and version of the used IFS on "empty" mountpoints
378+ Added: Button on the autoload window (the -nogui GUI) to abort reconnection
379+ Added: Server entry field is now a drop down combo box holding all servers
380 to which connections were made with)
381+ Added: Alternatively support NetDrive for SMB shares instead of EVFS (using
382 undocumented -ndfs switch)
383* Updated: All message files
384! Fixed: Bug in my autoload code
385! Fixed: Bug in my -ndfs code (spotted by Guillaume)
386
387+ Added: Autostart EVFS connections feature via Startup folder object
388+ Added: -nogui switch (only show a small message window)
389+ Added: -autoclose switch (close eVFSGUI after 3 seconds)
390+ Added: Load profile specified on the commandline
391+ Added: Edit via context menu for mountpoints with exactly one resource
392+ Added: Context menu equivalents to the Detach and Unmount pushbuttons
393+ Added: The content of the EF_NETWORK field (aka workgroup) is saved to the
394 EVFSGUI.INI as this changes only on rare occasions (saved me a lot of
395 typing during testing)
396+ Added: Do not attach drive if has already been attached (from TODO list A.T.)
397! Fixed: Profiles supported plain passwords whereas EVFS provided encrypted
398 passwords in profile files
399! Fixed: eVFSGUI initializes itself properly now
400! Fixed: eVFSGUI would hang after displaying the message "no control program
401 found"
402! Fixed: Cleanup signal stuff ("return" after a signal is a bad thing to do!)
403! Fixed: INI file was not closed after leaving eVFSGUI
404! Fixed: When several mount points exist and the first one is removed the click
405 event routine was executed after the corresponded record was already
406 removed -> eVFSGUI crashed. As a fix the record is validated before an
407 attempt to access its data is done. If it does not exist anymore the
408 event routine is terminated without further action.
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