Re: [OpenAFS] excel 2003 and readonly afs directories

2007-01-17 Thread Jeffrey Altman
Jeffrey Altman wrote: > Dave Botsch wrote: >> What about giving the user lock permissions (k)? > > Lock privilege only provides for read-locks, not write-locks. > > Need to monitor what Excel does with sysInternal's procmon.exe when > accessing a file it doesn't have write access to via CIFS. Mi

Re: [OpenAFS] Databases & AFS (revisited)

2007-01-17 Thread Jeffrey Hutzelman
On Saturday, December 23, 2006 06:14:32 PM +0100 Davor Ocelic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Looking at [2], which appears to be CMU's class assignment, the students are supposed to create a Postgres database within their AFS volumes, without a word of problems that might create. A bit delayed

[OpenAFS] HOWTO: mod_dav (apache 1.x) and afs

2007-01-17 Thread Adam Megacz
In case anybody else is trying to do this, here's what worked for me. The patch below is essentially the same thing as this: http://www.lyra.org/pipermail/dav-dev/2002-June/003647.html Except that patch doesn't seem to apply cleanly. Usage for debianites would go something like this (with th

Re: [OpenAFS] AFS file inconsitency one character wrong

2007-01-17 Thread Marcus Watts
> Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > From: Duc Bao Ta <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: openafs-info@openafs.org > Subject: [OpenAFS] AFS file inconsitency one character wrong > Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Errors-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Hallo, > > I have a serious problem with AFS. I am using Debian sar

Re: [OpenAFS] AFS file inconsitency one character wrong

2007-01-17 Thread Jeffrey Altman
Russ Allbery wrote: > Duc Bao Ta <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> I am really worried, beacuse I cannot trust that machine anymore!? > > I would suspect a hardware problem on that faulty machine. The difference > between a capital letter and a lowercase letter is a single bit error, > which can

Re: [OpenAFS] AFS file inconsitency one character wrong

2007-01-17 Thread Russ Allbery
Duc Bao Ta <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I have a serious problem with AFS. I am using Debian sarge Linux 2.6.15 > with openafs 1.4.1 with openafs-client from backport. We have a cluster > of ~20 computers and three fileservers. All clients have identical > installation (only hardware differs from

[OpenAFS] AFS file inconsitency one character wrong

2007-01-17 Thread Duc Bao Ta
Hallo, I have a serious problem with AFS. I am using Debian sarge Linux 2.6.15 with openafs 1.4.1 with openafs-client from backport. We have a cluster of ~20 computers and three fileservers. All clients have identical installation (only hardware differs from group to group). The problem is t

Re: [OpenAFS] excel 2003 and readonly afs directories

2007-01-17 Thread Jeffrey Altman
Dave Botsch wrote: > What about giving the user lock permissions (k)? Lock privilege only provides for read-locks, not write-locks. Need to monitor what Excel does with sysInternal's procmon.exe when accessing a file it doesn't have write access to via CIFS. smime.p7s Description: S/MIME Cr

Re: [OpenAFS] excel 2003 and readonly afs directories

2007-01-17 Thread Dave Botsch
What about giving the user lock permissions (k)? On Wed, Jan 17, 2007 at 11:47:54AM -0500, Jeffrey Altman wrote: > Dave Botsch wrote: > > Hi. > > > > With Excel 2003 on Windows, if a directory is readonly > > (say via acls), Excel cannot open the .xls document. The error is "Cannot > > access the

Re: [OpenAFS] excel 2003 and readonly afs directories

2007-01-17 Thread Jeffrey Altman
Dave Botsch wrote: > Hi. > > With Excel 2003 on Windows, if a directory is readonly > (say via acls), Excel cannot open the .xls document. The error is "Cannot > access the file "filename". The file may be readonly or encrypted." > > Now, if I copy the file to the desktop or make the directory rw

Re: [OpenAFS] 1.4.1 Linux client: callbacks on a directory fail to invalidate status info of files in it

2007-01-17 Thread Jeffrey Hutzelman
On Wed, 17 Jan 2007, Rainer Toebbicke wrote: > When doing an 'rm xxx', the file server does not break callbacks for > "xxx", but only for the directory containing "xxx". Right; if the link count on the file goes to zero (the normal case), then callbacks are not broken, because since there is no n

[OpenAFS] 1.4.1 Linux client: callbacks on a directory fail to invalidate status info of files in it

2007-01-17 Thread Rainer Toebbicke
When doing an 'rm xxx', the file server does not break callbacks for "xxx", but only for the directory containing "xxx". Now, at least in OpenAFS 1.4.1 on Linux this does not invalidate the cached information for "xxx" on another machine. Of course "ls xxx*" or something will fail since the di

[OpenAFS] excel 2003 and readonly afs directories

2007-01-17 Thread Dave Botsch
Hi. With Excel 2003 on Windows, if a directory is readonly (say via acls), Excel cannot open the .xls document. The error is "Cannot access the file "filename". The file may be readonly or encrypted." Now, if I copy the file to the desktop or make the directory rw, excel can open the file. Mac E

Re: [OpenAFS] Using FUSE for OpenAFS?

2007-01-17 Thread Derrick J Brashear
On Wed, 17 Jan 2007, Jason Edgecombe wrote: Hi, I just saw an article on Slashdot that FUSE was ported to Mac OSX In one of the comments, some guy said he was trying to port FUSE to windows. http://apple.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=217284&cid=17643614 FUSE - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fil

[OpenAFS] Using FUSE for OpenAFS?

2007-01-17 Thread Jason Edgecombe
Hi, I just saw an article on Slashdot that FUSE was ported to Mac OSX In one of the comments, some guy said he was trying to port FUSE to windows. http://apple.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=217284&cid=17643614 FUSE - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Filesystem_in_Userspace I just wanted to ask if