[OpenAFS] OpenAFS 1.4.2fc2 and Vanilla Linux kernel 2.6.18

2006-09-27 Thread FB
Hi, I installed a test machine using * Vanilla Linux kernel 2.6.18 * OpenAFS 1.4.2rc2 (it's the latest debian package available) * Debian GNU/Linux Sid, latest updates * KDE 3.5.4 Compared to kernel 2.6.17 and OpenAFS 1.4.1 I found some differences: 1. df returns unusual values for

[OpenAFS] success report on 1.4.2 Final Candidate 4

2006-09-27 Thread Alberto Paoluzzi
Client OpenAFS 1.4.2 Final Candidate 4 on MacBook (Apple Intel) works pretty stable under MacOSX 10.4.7, both at work and at home. Thank you, guys ! Alberto ___ OpenAFS-info mailing list OpenAFS-info@openafs.org https://lists.openafs.org/mailman/lis

Re: [OpenAFS] Solaris/SunOS 5.8 token sharing

2006-09-27 Thread Russ Allbery
Carson Gaspar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Almost certainly - PAM fixes abound in recent openssh versions. Things > to try: > - Turn off PrivSep (most likely to fix your problem) > - Test the newly released 4.4p1 Note that privilege separation is fine provided that the PAG is created in your se

Re: [OpenAFS] Solaris/SunOS 5.8 token sharing

2006-09-27 Thread Carson Gaspar
--On Wednesday, September 27, 2006 2:25 PM -0700 Russ Allbery <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Mike Dopheide <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: OpenSSH 3.9p1 or 4.2p1 Building a new version of OpenSSH for 5.8 results in an sshd that ends up sharing AFS tokens between users. Sounds like OpenSSH isn't

[OpenAFS] achieving "balance"?

2006-09-27 Thread Stephen Joyce
What is the current best practice to balance volumes across fileservers? I'm aware of CMU's balance program at ftp://ftp.andrew.cmu.edu/pub/AFS-Tools/ and Russ Albery's afs-balance at http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/software/afs-balance. Are there others? Is anyone maintaining balance or has anyone

Re: [OpenAFS] package tool

2006-09-27 Thread Daniel Clark
On 9/27/06, Russ Allbery <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Steve Devine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > What methods / utility's are others using to keep machines configuration > files current? There are about as many different methods as there are sites. Stanford is currently in the process of deployin

Re: [OpenAFS] Solaris/SunOS 5.8 token sharing

2006-09-27 Thread Mike Dopheide
Sounds like the sshd is not getting a PAG. You say you rebuilt it and it now fails? Did you change the configure options or sshd_config options, or did you loose the kafs lib? I agree with the PAG theory and I think you're onto something with kafs. That would explain why it's not working on Sol

Re: [OpenAFS] Solaris/SunOS 5.8 token sharing

2006-09-27 Thread Douglas E. Engert
Mike Dopheide wrote: I don't believe this to be an OpenAFS issue, but I believe only AFS users might have seen the symptom. SunOS 5.8 (only) OpenAFS 1.2.13 or Transarc MIT Kerberos 1.3.6 or 1.4.3 OpenSSH 3.9p1 or 4.2p1 Building a new version of OpenSSH for 5.8 results in an sshd that ends

Re: [OpenAFS] Solaris/SunOS 5.8 token sharing

2006-09-27 Thread Russ Allbery
Mike Dopheide <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I don't believe this to be an OpenAFS issue, but I believe only AFS users > might have seen the symptom. > SunOS 5.8 (only) > OpenAFS 1.2.13 or Transarc > MIT Kerberos 1.3.6 or 1.4.3 > OpenSSH 3.9p1 or 4.2p1 > Building a new version of OpenSSH for 5.8

[OpenAFS] Solaris/SunOS 5.8 token sharing

2006-09-27 Thread Mike Dopheide
I don't believe this to be an OpenAFS issue, but I believe only AFS users might have seen the symptom. SunOS 5.8 (only) OpenAFS 1.2.13 or Transarc MIT Kerberos 1.3.6 or 1.4.3 OpenSSH 3.9p1 or 4.2p1 Building a new version of OpenSSH for 5.8 results in an sshd that ends up sharing AFS tokens b

Re: [OpenAFS] package tool

2006-09-27 Thread Russ Allbery
Steve Devine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > The package tool formally in the IBM transarc software is deprecated -- > in obsolete status. > We have tried rebuilding it to run on Linux but so far no joy. > We found this to be a helpful tool. > Basically we have traditionally used it to run daily vi

[OpenAFS] package tool

2006-09-27 Thread Steve Devine
The package tool formally in the IBM transarc software is deprecated -- in obsolete status. We have tried rebuilding it to run on Linux but so far no joy. We found this to be a helpful tool. Basically we have traditionally used it to run daily via crontab and if we have changed a file it get 'push

Re: [OpenAFS] Windows client and Linux server issues.

2006-09-27 Thread Derrick J Brashear
On Wed, 27 Sep 2006, Jeffrey Altman wrote: I actually know exactly what the problem is. The 1.4.x file servers implement a change to prevent unfriendly clients from repeatedly requesting FetchStatus operations on the same object. The 1.4.x Actually, all versions of OpenAFS have that protecti

Re: [OpenAFS] Windows client and Linux server issues.

2006-09-27 Thread Mitchell Baker
Thanks.. we will look at deploying 1.5.8 then... See-ya Mitch On Wed, 2006-09-27 at 12:26 -0400, Jeffrey Altman wrote: > I actually know exactly what the problem is. The 1.4.x file servers > implement a change to prevent unfriendly clients from repeatedly > requesting FetchStatus operations on t

Re: [OpenAFS] Windows client and Linux server issues.

2006-09-27 Thread Jeffrey Altman
I actually know exactly what the problem is. The 1.4.x file servers implement a change to prevent unfriendly clients from repeatedly requesting FetchStatus operations on the same object. The 1.4.x and earlier Windows clients do not implement the InlineBulkStatus operation. This was first impleme

Re: [OpenAFS] Windows client and Linux server issues.

2006-09-27 Thread Jeffrey Altman
Mitchell Baker wrote: > On Wed, 2006-09-27 at 11:07 -0400, Jeffrey Altman wrote: >> Mitchell: >> >> Do you have the same issues with the 1.5.8 Windows client? > > Just installed on my test system and no, there is not issue there. Good. > Looking for the info on how to get a trace from the window

Re: [OpenAFS] Windows client and Linux server issues.

2006-09-27 Thread Mitchell Baker
On Wed, 2006-09-27 at 11:07 -0400, Jeffrey Altman wrote: > Mitchell: > > Do you have the same issues with the 1.5.8 Windows client? Just installed on my test system and no, there is not issue there. > > The error messages you describe are the Windows SMB client timing > out the connection to th

Re: [OpenAFS] Windows client and Linux server issues.

2006-09-27 Thread Jeffrey Altman
Mitchell: Do you have the same issues with the 1.5.8 Windows client? The error messages you describe are the Windows SMB client timing out the connection to the AFS Client Service because the AFS client is taking too long to respond. 1.5.8 implements a new algorithm to attempt to convince the SM

RE: [OpenAFS] Windows client and Linux server issues.

2006-09-27 Thread Gurganus, Brant L
I don't know how seriously you'll take my suggestion for narrowing this problem down, since I am a Rose-Hulman student, but as a software tester for Microsoft, Powerway, and other companies, I do have some experience. From what I can tell from what you sent, you have changed two variables. You h

[OpenAFS] Windows client and Linux server issues.

2006-09-27 Thread Mitchell Baker
I'm having an issue which I need some help with. Just finished migrating all of our file servers from Solaris 8 running openafs 1.2.13 server to RHEL 4 x86_64 running 1.4.1. I have one test server running 1.4.2fc4. Windows client used is using AFS version 1.3.8700 and same thing with 1.4.0203.