The Account Manager is a tool for managing accounts in kaserver. It would not be used for managing accounts in a Kerberos KDC or in Active Directory. It is my hope that one day the Account Manager could be modified to support the MIT and Heimdal kadmin protocols as well as LDAP for Active Directory.
As Russ already pointed out and as described in the OpenAFS for Windows release notes, the AFS Server functionality should at best be considered experimental at the current time. It is not being actively maintained. It is recommended that if you wish to run an AFS Server on Windows that you do so by running a UNIX/Linux OS of your choice in a VM Ware environment with access to the physical drives. The OpenAFS for Windows client is very well maintained and the AFS Server Manager can be used although it will crash frequently due to thread safety issues. If you have not already done so please read the Release Notes. There are lots of important details in there that an administrator should be aware of. Jeffrey Altman Chris Wagner wrote: > Hi folks, I'm new to this whole AFS thing, so please forgive if I'm > doing something wrong. To start, I'm running OpenAFS 1.5.0 (though I > was experiencing this problem with 1.4.0, too). Both my test machines > are Windows XP SP2 in this case (though the server is running in a > VMWare window). > > I'm running AFS on Windows (as server/client) first to try it out before > trying it on a mixed Unix(Server/Client)/Windows(Client) environment. > Well, I got things set-up and I can obtain a token with a client machine > as the admin account I set-up during installation. > > At this point I can mount the AFS volume on the client and I've mounted > it. > > However, when I attempt to run the Account Manager, it pauses for about > 30 secs, then complains "The AFS Account Manager was unable to find the > TaAfsAdmSvr.exe program, or was unable to prepare your computer to > perform AFS administration." > > So I run TaAfsAdmSvr.exe, because I googled around and saw someone > mention they had to run this program by hand the first time, and I get: > > AdmSvr: Initializing... > AdmSvr: Ready. > > AdmSvr: Auto-opening cell amystestafs; scope=full > AdmSvr: Auto-open of cell amystestafs failed; error 0x00000000 > > So I'm completely stumped at this point, further googling has turned up > nothing. Is this account manager program even necessary if I want to > authenticate it against a Kerbero domain like AD? Also, what's involved > if I want to authenticate against AD, and is this better done under > Linux/Unix? > > - Chris > > -- > Christopher Wagner > Amy's Kitchen - http://www.amys.com/ > Sr. Systems Administrator > 1234 Apollo Way > Santa Rosa, CA 95407 > 707-577-7541 - [EMAIL PROTECTED] > _______________________________________________ > OpenAFS-info mailing list > OpenAFS-info@openafs.org > https://lists.openafs.org/mailman/listinfo/openafs-info >
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