[OpenAFS] BSOD - Vista AFS 1.7.0800

2012-04-05 Thread Finke, Jon E
I am running Vista with the most recent release of OpenAFS. If I enter "\\afs\rpi.edu" into an explorer window, I get a blue screen of death. Is this simply an operator error on my part, or is this something that needs to be reported (and if so, how... Problem signature: Problem Event Name

RE: [OpenAFS] External Fileserver?

2008-05-15 Thread Finke, Jon E
When we were faced with a similar request a number of years back, we instead set up a program where people could "lease" large amounts of AFS space. The department in question gave us (or gave us funding to purchase) several disk drives and we made some proportional amount of space available to th

[OpenAFS] Accuracy of timestamps in AFS files.

2008-04-19 Thread Finke, Jon E
I will be giving a deposition involving some intellectual property issues in the near future, and some of my work is being considered as prior art. One of the ways we are determining "when" I wrote things will be based on the last changed dates of the files. Our AFS cell dates back to the early

RE: [OpenAFS] OpenAFS and Oracle (Support/Certification)?

2007-11-07 Thread Finke, Jon E
We have run Oracle on AFS clients for the past 15 years or so without incident (Oracle data files and binaries were all on local disk or SAN volumes, NOT in AFS space). The Oracle instances did not interact directly with AFS files, although many oracle applications did (were stored in AFS space, a

RE: [OpenAFS] pts groups -> unix groups

2007-09-01 Thread Finke, Jon E
For historic reasons, we store our /etc/group assignments in an Oracle database - this data was used to generate /etc/group files and later used to populate our LDAP group attributes. Being an AFS shop, we did not have a lot of need for /etc/group control at the user level, but some access control