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Reported by geofft, 14 years ago.

It's not as well-known as it should be that it's reasonable to install Debathena on your personal Debian/Ubuntu? laptop. We should do some rounds of postering, some notices to this effect on cluster machines, etc.

I think concretely we should design some posters / other publicity materials, so they're ready for fall.

Reported by jdreed, 15 years ago.

It would be cool if there was an easy way to access one's DFS share from Debathena.

smbclient is fine for the command line, but the GUI would be nice. Nautilus does not seem to know how to deal with kerberos authentication.

For the record, the smbclient command is:

smbclient -k win.mit.edu/dfs -D /profiles/j/joeuser

The dfsclient script in the Samba locker is no longer necessary, because smbclient now understands redirection.

Reported by wdc, 15 years ago.

Alexp has done the work of figuring out how to get TSM 5.4 working under Intrepid (including the dsmj GUI by utilizing the sun-java-6 JRE.)

Temporary documentation on getting this to work is pointed to by Hermes at:  https://web.mit.edu/sgi-desktop1/tsmdoc/article.html

There are several opportunities for improvement here:

1. Put the documentation in a more "real" place.
2. Refine the package to be a bona fide .deb instead of an alien.

IBM is coming out with a new version of TSM and this represents an opportunity to lobby for some important improvements:

1, Get rid of use of ksh since bash is canon nowadays, and the ksh EULA is really nasty.

2. Get TSM fully functional on the platform's NATIVE java runtime environment (preferably OpenJava?-6), rather than requiring TSM users to to go to www.sun.com, download a jre, click on a messy EULA, and then fiddle with the PATH.
3. Embrace Ubuntu as a supported platform.
4. Provide a simple installer akin to what is on offer for Windows or Mac.
5. Eliminate the need to hand-create the dsm.sys and dsm.opt files. (The installer should offer a gui setup for those.)
6. Create sensible interfaces to upstart that are appropriately installed by the installer.
7. Provide a "dry run" option that would help people see what files would or would not be backed up with a particular command or scheduled run.
8. Oh yes, I almost forgot, The TSM command line program should

use that ioctl to learn with the erase character is rather than hard coding the delete key. The erase character should be the upstream default, not requiring hand-tooling to specially fix for TSM.