Check to make sure the OpenAFS kernel module is loaded and the afsd process is running. You can check the kernel log (dmesg) to see if OpenAFS has started.
Next I would check to see if there are any firewall rules that are blocking the OpenAFS ports (udp 7001). -- Cheyenne Wills [email protected] On Fri, 6 Jun 2025 12:36:26 +0200 Martin Podworny <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > we have been running an AFS-Cell on Debian for years without any > problems. > > Now we had to upgrade the Debian-Cellserver from Debian 9 (Stretch) > via Debian 10 (Buster) and Debian 11 (Bullseye) to Debian 12 > (Bookworm). We only use standardized packages from the Debian > repositories. > > The problem we have now is that clients that are connected from the > University's VPN can obtain a Kerberos ticket, but they cannot fetch > data from cells fileserver. While the cell works flawlessly for all > other clients. > > This behavior starts with Debian 11 which installs OpenAFS 1.8.6-5 > and kernel 5.10.237-1. On Debian 10 with OpenAFS 1.8.2 and 4.19.249-2 > everything still works, even for VPN-Clients. > > Do you have any idea how to explain or eliminate this behavior? Are > there any correlations with kernel parameter or settings for file- > and dbserver? > > If it is useful, i can attach some debug data from cells fileserver. > > Thank you, > > Martin > -- > University and City Library of Cologne > IT-Department > Universitätsstr. 33 :: D-50931 Köln > Tel.: +49 221 470-2593 :: Fax: +49 221 470-5166 > [email protected] :: www.ub.uni-koeln.de > _______________________________________________ > OpenAFS-info mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.openafs.org/mailman/listinfo/openafs-info _______________________________________________ OpenAFS-info mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openafs.org/mailman/listinfo/openafs-info
