Re: [OpenAFS] Win2K AFS server, mirror data+config to RHEL4.5 new Server?

2008-08-19 Thread avison48
Thank you very much for responding. Your server OS is Windows 2000. What is the AFS Server version? IBM AFS v3.5 (works great) Our KDC is a Windows server managed by someone else who wants to upgrade it, which will probably break krb to the Win2K AFS server. Why do you believe this to

[OpenAFS] Problem with mandatory profiles on AFS.

2008-08-19 Thread Anders Magnusson
Hi, first environment: AFS servers running 1.4.5, Windows clients 1.5.36. The problem is that when exporting mandatory profiles it usually works fine, but on some profiles it just hangs. Looking at the task manager shows that both CPU and network traffic stops, and after a while an error

Re: [OpenAFS] Problem with mandatory profiles on AFS.

2008-08-19 Thread Christof Hanke
On Tuesday 19 August 2008 11:52:02 Anders Magnusson wrote: Hi, first environment: AFS servers running 1.4.5, Windows clients 1.5.36. The problem is that when exporting mandatory profiles it usually works fine, but on some profiles it just hangs. Looking at the task manager shows that both

Re: [OpenAFS] Problem with mandatory profiles on AFS.

2008-08-19 Thread Anders Magnusson
Christof Hanke wrote: On Tuesday 19 August 2008 11:52:02 Anders Magnusson wrote: Hi, first environment: AFS servers running 1.4.5, Windows clients 1.5.36. The problem is that when exporting mandatory profiles it usually works fine, but on some profiles it just hangs. Looking at the task

Re: [OpenAFS] Problem with mandatory profiles on AFS.

2008-08-19 Thread Lars Schimmer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Anders Magnusson wrote: No, it's not the the character set that is the problem, it's something else. I just can tell, my profiles with the latest 1.5.52 release of windows client works moslty fine, but not in all cases. Til yet I cannot reproduce

Re: [OpenAFS] Win2K AFS server, mirror data+config to RHEL4.5 new Server?

2008-08-19 Thread Jason Edgecombe
avison48 wrote: The KDC/Microsoft SysAdmin knows more about Kerberos than I, knew the former admin who built the Win2K AFS server did tweaking of it; he's pretty sure his planned upgrade on the KDC will break this win2K AFS hacked kerberos. So he strongly advises migrating AFS to another

Re: [OpenAFS] Problem with mandatory profiles on AFS.

2008-08-19 Thread Jeffrey Altman
Lars Schimmer wrote: I just can tell, my profiles with the latest 1.5.52 release of windows client works mostly fine, but not in all cases. Til yet I cannot reproduce errors to debug them... Sometimes it just failes and hangs forever... If it hangs forever it is possibly a deadlock in which

Re: [OpenAFS] Problem with mandatory profiles on AFS.

2008-08-19 Thread Jeffrey Altman
Anders Magnusson wrote: Hi, first environment: AFS servers running 1.4.5, Windows clients 1.5.36. The problem is that when exporting mandatory profiles it usually works fine, but on some profiles it just hangs. Looking at the task manager shows that both CPU and network traffic stops,

Re: [OpenAFS] Problem with mandatory profiles on AFS.

2008-08-19 Thread Anders Magnusson
Jeffrey Altman wrote: Debugging techniques are described in the Release Notes. Yes, I've read them, but I didn't really understand how to parse all information that I could get out from the system :-) If the client comes to a complete halt it is likely a deadlock. A number of deadlocks

Re: [OpenAFS] Win2K AFS server, mirror data+config to RHEL4.5 new Server?

2008-08-19 Thread Jeffrey Altman
avison48 wrote: Thank you very much for responding. Your server OS is Windows 2000. What is the AFS Server version? IBM AFS v3.5 (works great) That is what I expected. The OpenAFS servers do not work very well and no one has put the time into fixing them. Our KDC is a Windows server

Re: [OpenAFS] Problem with mandatory profiles on AFS.

2008-08-19 Thread Jeffrey Altman
Anders Magnusson wrote: Jeffrey Altman wrote: Debugging techniques are described in the Release Notes. Yes, I've read them, but I didn't really understand how to parse all information that I could get out from the system :-) Parsing the output requires an understanding of the source code

[OpenAFS] Windows AFS client initialization delays

2008-08-19 Thread John Perkins
I've been seeing some initialization issues with the 1.5.5X OpenAFS clients recently on some computers we have running in our department. In particular, it seems to take an inordinate amount of time to get the AFS client to a point where it will accept file service requests. This afternoon,

Re: [OpenAFS] Windows AFS client initialization delays

2008-08-19 Thread Jeffrey Altman
John Perkins wrote: I've been seeing some initialization issues with the 1.5.5X OpenAFS clients recently on some computers we have running in our department. In particular, it seems to take an inordinate amount of time to get the AFS client to a point where it will accept file service