Thanks! You were all spot on. Our internal firewalls had recently been updated to block port 7001.
Ken On Tue, Mar 2, 2010 at 2:17 AM, Christof Hanke <christof.ha...@rzg.mpg.de>wrote: > Am Dienstag, 2. März 2010 11:01:22 schrieb Ken Elkabany: > > > I have six client machines all accessing a single openafs server. The > > > server and five clients are running Ubuntu 9.10 with openafs 1.4.10. > About > > > 80% of the time when a client modifies files on the afs, the changes are > > > not reflected on the other clients, even after the file has been closed > (a > > > zip file is unpacked in a directory, replacing all identically named > > > files). If a new file is copied, often times the other clients will not > see > > > it. Sometimes, after a couple minutes, the files are appropriately > updated. > > > Oddly enough, the sixth client, which is running Ubuntu 9.04 with openafs > > > 1.4.9, always has the changes properly reflected on it. However, I cannot > > > guarantee that the openafs client version is the issue as the sixth > client > > > is not running in the same conditions (not in a virtual machine), and is > > > also running external to the local area network of the other four > clients. > > > Is this expected behavior? I don't recall this being a problem when all > our > > > servers were on openafs 1.4.9. Is there a way to force the > synchronization? > > > > > This synchronization should happen automatically by the fileserver (using > "Callbacks"). For that to happen the fileserver must be able to talk to the > clients (UDP port 7001). > > Check if you have a firewall on your clients with Ubuntu 9.10 preventing > that. > > Just a guess, I don't use Ubuntu. > > Christof > > > Thanks, > > > > > > Ken > >
