[OpenAFS] nautilus on RHEL4

2008-03-19 Thread Dave Botsch
Hi, all. Nautilus on rhel4 (and prolly other os'es/distros), is somewhat broke w.r.t. openafs. Like the Mac finder, Nautilus looks at the unix mode bits to make access decisions for files and folders. Nautilus also ignores the umask when creating files (but not folders) on rhel4. So, I patched

Re: [OpenAFS] New to OpenAFS

2008-03-19 Thread billbaird3
Jason, Thanks so much for clarifying things, for the majority of users I think this will solve a lot of file sharing issues. Most of our locations are dedicated to a specific department, so traffic will stay on the local network. I do have a few additional questions if you don't mind... - Our ac

Re: [OpenAFS] AFS namei file servers, SAN, any issues elsewhere? We've had some. Can AFS _cause_ SAN issues?

2008-03-19 Thread Jason Edgecombe
Is this what you need? PKGINST: SUNWsan NAME: SAN Foundation Kit CATEGORY: system ARCH: sparc VERSION: 1.0 BASEDIR: / VENDOR: Sun Microsystems, Inc. DESC: This package provides a support for the SAN Foundation Kit. PSTAMP: sanserve-a20031029172438 INSTDATE:

Re: [OpenAFS] New to OpenAFS

2008-03-19 Thread Jason Edgecombe
billbaird3 wrote: Hello, I'm new to OpenAFS and was hoping if the community could help me determine if it would be a good fit for my company. We are approx 150 people, with 50 home users and the rest in small offices of about 10-15 people. I would like to have a main file server that everyone ca

Re: [OpenAFS] openafs on iphone

2008-03-19 Thread Karl Kuehn
On Mar 16, 2008, at 4:48 AM, Alberto Paoluzzi wrote: have the main developers of OpenAFS considered a participation to the 100 million dollars contest, http://www.nypost.com/seven/03012007/business/apples_big_talk_business_janet_whitman.htm , with a project of bringing both kerberos and openaf

Re: [OpenAFS] perpetual Connection timed out

2008-03-19 Thread Jeffrey Altman
Todd DeSantis wrote: Hi - If the problem is happening when you are trying to cd into a volume, then this is probably a case where the linkData field of the vcache structure has somehow become corrupted. The "fs flush" and "fs flushv" commands will NOT address this part of the flushing. Then t

Re: [OpenAFS] perpetual Connection timed out

2008-03-19 Thread Wesley Chow
Todd DeSantis wrote: > Hi - > > If the problem is happening when you are trying to cd into > a volume, then this is probably a case where the linkData > field of the vcache structure has somehow become corrupted. > > The "fs flush" and "fs flushv" commands will NOT address this > part of the flu

Re: [OpenAFS] perpetual Connection timed out

2008-03-19 Thread Todd DeSantis
Hi - If the problem is happening when you are trying to cd into a volume, then this is probably a case where the linkData field of the vcache structure has somehow become corrupted. The "fs flush" and "fs flushv" commands will NOT address this part of the flushing. If you have the fs flu

[OpenAFS] Bug#143111: Testing GNU findutils on AFS.... please!

2008-03-19 Thread James Youngman
First of all, please forgive me for posting to your mailing list without first subscribing to it. Secondly, please CC me on your replies since I am not subscribed :) My question, is, if you build GNU findutils on your system, do the -xdev option and the -fstype test work on AFS (you might te

[OpenAFS] New to OpenAFS

2008-03-19 Thread billbaird3
Hello, I'm new to OpenAFS and was hoping if the community could help me determine if it would be a good fit for my company. We are approx 150 people, with 50 home users and the rest in small offices of about 10-15 people. I would like to have a main file server that everyone can access, but also

[OpenAFS] Mac OSX Finder drag-and-drop failures

2008-03-19 Thread Richard Brittain
Hi, I recently ran into a problem with the Mac OSX Finder and AFS, which was frustratingly difficult to pin down to any particular configuration or circumstances. The Finder would not allow _any_ file dragging out of AFS (circle-slash icon), regardless of destination. Files could be opene

[OpenAFS] openafs on iphone

2008-03-19 Thread Alberto Paoluzzi
Just an idea: have the main developers of OpenAFS considered a participation to the 100 million dollars contest, http://www.nypost.com/seven/03012007/business/apples_big_talk_business_janet_whitman.htm , with a project of bringing both kerberos and openafs to the apple iphone? The SDK see

Re: [OpenAFS] Fedora kernel builds

2008-03-19 Thread Brian Gallew
Buhrmaster, Gary wrote: And it is not childish. It is actually a very sophisticated way to achieve a result. Language, as Orwell wrote so well about, and political advisors of both parties use so well, can be a powerful way to confuse, misdirect, and to manipulate, as well as the potential to en

[OpenAFS] Documentation to install openAFS in NokiaN800

2008-03-19 Thread Alejandro Gutierrez
Hi: I am currently interested in installing the openAFS in the NokiaN800. Does anyone know where I can find information on how to do that? Any documentation? Appreciate the response, Alejandro Gutierrez Alejandro GutiƩrrez, MS PhD Candidate Research Assistant Samsung Electronics System Softwa

Re: [OpenAFS] perpetual Connection timed out

2008-03-19 Thread Jeffrey Altman
Christopher D. Clausen wrote: Wesley Chow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Mike Garrison wrote: On Mar 19, 2008, at 12:26 PM, Wesley Chow wrote: On a few of our clients (running 1.4.1), we sometimes get "Connection timed out" with a single volume. Other volumes on the same server are 1.4.1 is almos

Re: [OpenAFS] perpetual Connection timed out

2008-03-19 Thread Derrick Brashear
> > Yep, I'll do that. I was just hoping there was a "bos restart"-like > > command for clients that I could use in the meantime. It's not a > > common problem anyway, so I'll just upgrade. > > fs checks; fs checkv Not sufficient. Hint: why does fs uuid -generate exist now? __

Re: [OpenAFS] perpetual Connection timed out

2008-03-19 Thread Christopher D. Clausen
Wesley Chow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Mike Garrison wrote: >> >> On Mar 19, 2008, at 12:26 PM, Wesley Chow wrote: >>> >>> On a few of our clients (running 1.4.1), we sometimes get >>> "Connection timed out" with a single volume. Other volumes on the >>> same server are >> >> 1.4.1 is almost 2 ye

Re: [OpenAFS] perpetual Connection timed out

2008-03-19 Thread Wesley Chow
Mike Garrison wrote: > > On Mar 19, 2008, at 12:26 PM, Wesley Chow wrote: >> >> On a few of our clients (running 1.4.1), we sometimes get "Connection >> timed out" with a single volume. Other volumes on the same server are > > 1.4.1 is almost 2 years old. Have you tried upgrading? 1.4.6 is rece

Re: [OpenAFS] perpetual Connection timed out

2008-03-19 Thread Mike Garrison
On Mar 19, 2008, at 12:26 PM, Wesley Chow wrote: On a few of our clients (running 1.4.1), we sometimes get "Connection timed out" with a single volume. Other volumes on the same server are 1.4.1 is almost 2 years old. Have you tried upgrading? 1.4.6 is recent. -- Mike Garrison __

Re: [OpenAFS] groups in groups, ptsviewers etc...

2008-03-19 Thread Kim Kimball
Marcus Watts wrote: Anders Magnusson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Also, for people to be able to see what's in the protection database, they must obviously be members of the (undocumented?) ptsviewers group. Is it safe just to add all people to this group or are there other impl

[OpenAFS] perpetual Connection timed out

2008-03-19 Thread Wesley Chow
On a few of our clients (running 1.4.1), we sometimes get "Connection timed out" with a single volume. Other volumes on the same server are unaffected. When this happens, the client never seems to recover on its own except through a reboot. This is unfortunately not very repeatable, but it seems t

Re: [OpenAFS] salvaging volumes destroys data

2008-03-19 Thread Ralf Hornik (Mailings)
Hi, > Hmm, I wonder if this really is a salvager problem. Did you compile with GCC > 4.2.x? If yes, try recompiling with 4.1.x. See > http://www.nabble.com/Strange-access-problems-on-one-client-to12112808.html Ubuntu 7.10 amd64 uses gcc-4.1 and the volume or at least the damaged files where not a