Re: [OpenAFS] when openafs becomes a windows IFS

2008-07-22 Thread Rodney M. Dyer
At 04:37 PM 7/22/2008, Jeffrey Altman wrote: To follow symlinks, or not to follow symlinks, that is the question. That is what question? Just a joke in the characterization of Shakespeare. And to whom are you posing it? No one in particular. A symlink is not an object that Windows kno

Re: [OpenAFS] when openafs becomes a windows IFS

2008-07-22 Thread Rodney M. Dyer
At 02:38 PM 7/22/2008, David Bear wrote: I have a couple users who think they can clean things up and ... make a mess by deleting too many things. We've had the same problem. Sometimes with near disastrous results. Your AFS admins had better beware about working under Windows, otherwise any

Re: [OpenAFS] Re: [OpenAFS-devel] An open letter from the OpenAFS Council of Elders

2008-05-11 Thread Rodney M. Dyer
At 11:42 AM 5/11/2008, Esther Filderman wrote: There have been mechanisms in the past to directly fund OpenAFS; the AFS & Kerberos Best Practices Workshop raises money for OpenAFS, and there is a fund through Usenix, to take advantage of it being a 501c3. As it's own 501c3 corporation OpenAFS wo

Re: [OpenAFS] Re: [OpenAFS-devel] An open letter from the OpenAFS Council of Elders

2008-05-10 Thread Rodney M. Dyer
If you care about whether OpenAFS sees a future or not, then you NEED to do this. Rodney Rodney M. Dyer Operations and Systems (Specialist) Mosaic Computing Group William States Lee College of Engineering University of North Carolina at Charlotte Email: rmdyer(a)uncc.edu Web: http://www.coe.uncc.e

Re: [OpenAFS] The Importance of Filing Bug Reports

2008-03-06 Thread Rodney M. Dyer
At 08:44 PM 3/6/2008, Jeffrey Altman wrote: I cannot stress enough the importance of filing bug reports. The OpenAFS Gatekeepers and the rest of the OpenAFS community that contributes their time and energy to debugging the clients and servers and writing patches cannot fix problems that we do

Re: [OpenAFS] A hearty thanks to all OpenAFS developers -- especially Jeff, Derrick & crew

2008-02-27 Thread Rodney M. Dyer
At 07:14 PM 2/27/2008, Jeffrey Altman wrote: We try hard but OpenAFS isn't anywhere close to what we want it to be. Every day it gets better though. It certainly does... every 0.0.0.1 version a day update. ;P Rodney ___ OpenAFS-info mailing list

Re: [OpenAFS] OpenAFS on windows - profile in AFS, who uses it?

2008-02-11 Thread Rodney M. Dyer
At 12:33 PM 2/11/2008, Jeffrey Altman wrote: The AFS client does not support the UNICODE variant of the CIFS protocol and there is a bug in the Windows CIFS client that fails to properly process File Status Notification messages for objects accessed via UNC paths. This bug was fixed in Vista.

Re: [OpenAFS] OpenAFS on windows - profile in AFS, who uses it?

2008-02-11 Thread Rodney M. Dyer
At 06:23 AM 2/11/2008, Lars Schimmer wrote: Ok, sorry, needed to snip thattext out, seems to be more or less the same like the PDF on best practice workshop 2005(or 2006?). I believe the information you are refering to is from "AFS on Windows", 2004 workshop As fas as I know, with Windows XP

Re: [OpenAFS] OpenAFS on windows - profile in AFS, who uses it?

2008-02-10 Thread Rodney M. Dyer
At 03:39 PM 2/10/2008, Rodney M. Dyer wrote: When a user is logged on, a global drive cannot be unmounted by the user which is nice. (This assumes they aren't an administrator.) I'm replying to myself here because I forgot a couple of extra items at this point. When a globa

Re: [OpenAFS] OpenAFS on windows - profile in AFS, who uses it?

2008-02-10 Thread Rodney M. Dyer
At 04:27 PM 2/10/2008, Christopher D. Clausen wrote: I have not tested this (all my user directories are out of a single folder) but can one use the documented set command envirnoment variable display options (set /?) to obtain the first (second, third, etc.) letter of a username? I haven't t

Re: [OpenAFS] OpenAFS on windows - profile in AFS, who uses it?

2008-02-10 Thread Rodney M. Dyer
ted folders don't currently work well with the AFS client because it doesn't support unicode file names. This isn't a huge issue, but sometimes this comes into play for our foreign students who save web browser items in AFS, or IE does with the history, etc. Sometimes in ou

Re: [OpenAFS] mapping afs homedirs for windows users

2007-12-21 Thread Rodney M. Dyer
At 11:45 AM 12/21/2007, Dave Botsch wrote: Those of you using windows and mapping a user's afs homedir to a windows drive, how are you doing it? Our xp logon scripts can see our unix passwd file so I just use some command shell code something like the following... :: get afs home dir

Re: [OpenAFS] Puzzler: lack of access to AFS files

2007-12-17 Thread Rodney M. Dyer
At 03:12 PM 12/17/2007, Jeffrey Altman wrote: That is not true at all. If the CIFS interface reads 64KB at a time and refuses to request the next 64KB until the previous one has been delivered and the CM is reading 1MB at a time, then there is significant overhead caused by the CIFS interface.

Re: [OpenAFS] Puzzler: lack of access to AFS files

2007-12-17 Thread Rodney M. Dyer
At 02:28 PM 12/17/2007, Jeffrey Altman wrote: For each file operation CIFS sends anywhere from three to five requests. As a result there is significant overhead that increases the round trip time and limits the overall throughput. What I'm getting at is that once a 100 MB file is opened and is

Re: [OpenAFS] Puzzler: lack of access to AFS files

2007-12-17 Thread Rodney M. Dyer
At 10:46 AM 12/17/2007, Jeffrey Altman wrote: While AFS on UNIX is limited by the performance of Rx/UDP, on Windows we are actually limited by the CIFS/SMB implementation. A native redirector will be a big win here. Am I wrong here in thinking that the code for CIFS/SMB access is already fas

Re: [OpenAFS] Puzzler: lack of access to AFS files

2007-12-12 Thread Rodney M. Dyer
At 11:21 PM 12/12/2007, Jeffrey Altman wrote: Ok. Now that we are all friends again can we get back to the business of making OpenAFS a better product? Absolutely. I was never trying to be scornful at all. As you all know, I have a deep love and respect for AFS, and we have been using it fa

[OpenAFS] Huge RW volume size questions...

2007-12-12 Thread Rodney M. Dyer
JBOD? * What about the interface technology? SCSI, fiber channel, etc * Are there any non-vendor home grown software solutions such as using Linux, etc? * What is your favorite backup strategy for data archival on volumes of this size? Thanks much, Rodney Rodney M. Dyer Operations and Sy

Re: [OpenAFS] Puzzler: lack of access to AFS files

2007-12-12 Thread Rodney M. Dyer
At 05:26 PM 12/12/2007, Jeffrey Altman wrote: I disagree. We need more resources for testing a broader range of scenarios than we currently have available. The performance improvements must be implemented or you absolutely should go find something else to use. If we can't get to the point wher

Re: [OpenAFS] Puzzler: lack of access to AFS files

2007-12-12 Thread Rodney M. Dyer
he 'nix clients have shown themselves to be very reliable. Rodney Rodney M. Dyer Operations and Systems (Specialist) Mosaic Computing Group William States Lee College of Engineering University of North Carolina at Charlotte Web: http://www.coe.uncc.edu/~rmdyer Phone: (704)687-3518 Help Desk Line: (

Re: [OpenAFS] MS Word crashing when opening files, 1.5.27 client

2007-11-29 Thread Rodney M. Dyer
At 10:59 AM 11/29/2007, Jeffrey Altman wrote: Therefore, if you are providing files to be used simply as read only templates, they should be stored in AFS in a manner that indicates to the AFS client that they are in fact readonly so that the cache manager knows it is safe to fake the locks local

Re: [OpenAFS] Explorer crashes on Windows when RO volume is removed

2007-10-05 Thread Rodney M. Dyer
At 01:38 PM 10/5/2007, Jeffrey Altman wrote: If Explorer crashed, its a bug in Windows. Send the crash report to them. I'm sure the Shell team will be interested. I'm not going to debug this problem. It is with the 1.4.202.0 client and I really don't care about it. We know that client has

Re: [OpenAFS] MD5 sums for Windows *msi files

2007-05-29 Thread Rodney M. Dyer
At 04:59 PM 5/29/2007, Kim Kimball wrote: Would you try with the 1.4.4 release please? Ok yes, it looks like the master sum on the OpenAFS site is invalid... c:\temp>md5sum openafs-en_US-1-4-4.msi 1931383e7fb944427cdf73c4ddef0f34 *openafs-en_US-1-4-4.msi Rodney __

Re: [OpenAFS] MD5 sums for Windows *msi files

2007-05-29 Thread Rodney M. Dyer
At 04:00 PM 5/29/2007, Kim Kimball wrote: I've tried three different md5 tools (Windows md5summer, md5sum Solaris/RHEL) and cannot get the MD5 sums to match. I just downloaded the Win MSI and got the right result... c:\temp>md5sum openafs-en_US-1-5-20.msi f7f2f9a6f6e905cbef7a45aa9dbfcbc1 *open

Re: [OpenAFS] windows explore refresh

2007-04-25 Thread Rodney M. Dyer
At 08:57 AM 4/25/2007, Stephen Joyce wrote: Hi David, Are you accessing the AFS folders via a UNC path (\\afs\...) or a mapped drive (H:..., etc)? I saw this issue only when trying to use a UNC path, as advised by the docs. When I went back to mapped drives, refreshes are always immediate. I

Re: [OpenAFS] software for windows start out of OpenAFS Filespace?

2007-02-17 Thread Rodney M Dyer
for more pain than gain by trying to screw an application into running from a network (on Windows). With 'nix environments it is virtually painless. Rodney Rodney M. Dyer Operations and Systems (Specialist) Mosaic Computing Group William States Lee College of Engineering University of

Re: [OpenAFS] Re: Windows AFS client / Kerberos V

2007-01-29 Thread Rodney M Dyer
At 12:06 PM 1/29/2007, Joe Buehler wrote: Is there any backwards compatible way to run a Windows client against an MIT K5 KDC or am I forced to mass-install MIT Kerberos for Windows and re-educate my users? You can install the MIT Kerb for Win libraries on your clients fairly simply (backgrou

Re: [OpenAFS] Windows AFS client / Kerberos V

2007-01-29 Thread Rodney M Dyer
. Depending on the file server AFS version, you may or may not need the 524 daemon installed. Changing the Windows machines is not an option at the moment and they are all set up for the native AFS authentication. So if you can't change anything, is there a point in asking? Rodney Rodney M.

Re: [OpenAFS] Undelete support feedback request

2006-12-07 Thread Rodney M Dyer
I think it would be more interesting to pursue something like the "Shadow Volume Copy Services"... http://technet2.microsoft.com/WindowsServer/en/library/2b0d2457-b7d8-42c3-b6c9-59c145b7765f1033.mspx?mfr=true Yea I know, pie in the sky problems. Kidding aside, our upper management is really get

Re: [OpenAFS] Drive Mappings in 1.5.10

2006-11-03 Thread Rodney M Dyer
At 02:01 AM 11/3/2006, Jeffrey Altman wrote: Kevin: I have been unable to re-create the "Dr" problem in the afs_config drive mappings. However, I advise against using that tool. I believe that all drive mappings should be made using the Explorer. There is nothing special about a AFS drive map

Re: [OpenAFS] Removing file server preferences...

2006-09-19 Thread Rodney M Dyer
At 05:32 PM 9/19/2006, Jeffrey Altman wrote: Ken Hornstein wrote: >> At 02:08 PM 9/19/2006, Ken Hornstein wrote: >>> Stupid question #2: is it just a matter of tidying things up that you want >>> those prefs removed? >> In our case yes, and to prevent time out failover lag. > > Okay ... but I t

Re: [OpenAFS] Removing file server preferences...

2006-09-19 Thread Rodney M Dyer
At 02:08 PM 9/19/2006, Ken Hornstein wrote: Stupid question #2: is it just a matter of tidying things up that you want those prefs removed? In our case yes, and to prevent time out failover lag. As I understand it, if the fileservers have been decommissioned (you've moved all volumes off of

Re: [OpenAFS] Removing file server preferences...

2006-09-19 Thread Rodney M Dyer
At 01:39 PM 9/19/2006, Jeffrey Altman wrote: Jim Rees wrote: > It sounds like what you are looking for is a new command that flushes > the server list without restarting the afs client. ...snipped... Actually, the command already exists fs newcell This will force the server lists to b

Re: [OpenAFS] Removing file server preferences...

2006-09-19 Thread Rodney M Dyer
At 01:18 PM 9/19/2006, Jeffrey Altman wrote: It sounds like what you are looking for is a new command that flushes the server list without restarting the afs client. In a word, yes. When I reset the preferences list, the old servers hang around. Restarting the service is an "inconvenience".

[OpenAFS] Removing file server preferences...

2006-09-19 Thread Rodney M Dyer
Anyone know how to remove file server preferences once they have been added? We've recently removed some file servers from operation and I can't find a way to get rid of their preferences with "fs setserverprefs". Rodney ___ OpenAFS-info mailing lis

[OpenAFS] Volume problems

2006-09-18 Thread Rodney M Dyer
/2006 13:13:11 totalInodes 234 09/18/2006 13:13:11 Salvaged xp.apps.winnt (537081851): 225 files, 30174 blocks Rodney Rodney M. Dyer Operations and Systems (Specialist) Mosaic Computing Group William States Lee College of Engineering University of North Carolina at Charlotte Emai

Re: Searching for Testers was Re: [OpenAFS] OpenAFS site not geared for beginners...

2006-09-05 Thread Rodney M Dyer
At 08:29 PM 9/5/2006, Jeffrey Hutzelman wrote: If the user is not the owner of the volume, they will not be able to add back permissions they have removed. Has something changed such that your users no longer own their own volumes? Or are you reporting that the implicit permission granted to

Re: Searching for Testers was Re: [OpenAFS] OpenAFS site not geared for beginners...

2006-09-01 Thread Rodney M Dyer
At 09:14 PM 9/1/2006, Jeffrey Altman wrote: I feel compelled to point out the fact that I have seen zero bug reports saying that OpenAFS would not install or that the service would not start (except on Windows Vista and that is because of bugs in Vista.) Please forgive my knee-jerking and I adm

[OpenAFS] OpenAFS site not geared for beginners...

2006-09-01 Thread Rodney M Dyer
I've recently been in a rather elevated conversation with our help desk manager about the OpenAFS web site. Our help desk manager had created instructions for our Mosaic customers for installing OpenAFS on their laptops and home machines. The instructions called for going to the OpenAFS web s

Re: [OpenAFS] Supported enctypes in OpenAFS 1.4.x

2006-08-30 Thread Rodney M Dyer
At 09:57 AM 8/30/2006, Jeffrey Altman wrote: At the moment the requirement is that the service key and the session key be limited to one of the single DES types. DES-CBC-CRC, DES-CBC-MD5, DES-CBC-MD4. In some future we will support stronger encryption types. Exactly what does this "future" de

Re: [OpenAFS] service start failure

2006-08-29 Thread Rodney M Dyer
dd. No need to fix anything here, but thanks for being interested. :-) Rodney Jeffrey Altman Rodney M Dyer wrote: > We recently encountered an issue where the AFS service wouldn't start > and Windows would throw a Dr. Watson error. The users laptop we were > looking at ran Windo

Re: [OpenAFS] service start failure

2006-08-29 Thread Rodney M Dyer
We recently encountered an issue where the AFS service wouldn't start and Windows would throw a Dr. Watson error. The users laptop we were looking at ran Windows 2000. After a few hours scratching my head and wearing out my fingers I noticed that the laptops computername was 12+ characters (i

Re: [OpenAFS] no text in Windows Explorer Extention

2006-08-28 Thread Rodney M Dyer
At 01:09 AM 8/28/2006, Jeffrey Altman wrote: This was one of those bugs that once you see what is going on you wonder how in the world it ever worked. The file name "afs_shl_ext.dll" does not fit in 8.3 notation so when the module name was queried it would get the short name abbreviation whateve

[OpenAFS] UNIX SysAdmin/Programmer Position Available

2006-08-09 Thread Rodney M Dyer
Posted: June 23,2006 University of North Carolina at Charlotte IT Operation & System Specialist for the College of Engineering Computer Engineering Group (Mosaic Computing) The College of Engineering's computing group is responsible for the development and operation of the networked computin

Re: [OpenAFS] Changing AFS database server names

2006-06-27 Thread Rodney M Dyer
At 09:16 AM 6/27/2006, Jeffrey Altman wrote: I should also point out that the Windows client when not using Freelance mode does a very poor job of failing over when the first vlserver found in the CellServDB is not available and Freelance mode is not being used. The Windows client prior to the

Re: [OpenAFS] CellServDB file update...

2006-05-15 Thread Rodney M Dyer
At 01:19 AM 5/16/2006, Marcus Watts wrote: > From: Derrick J Brashear <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > it cannot, actually. it can cause every server to need to be restarted > bjut the tokens in the client cache will still work after the new servers > start This was not my experience, but I won't argue ov

Re: [OpenAFS] CellServDB file update...

2006-05-15 Thread Rodney M Dyer
At 10:57 PM 5/15/2006, Derrick J Brashear wrote: Yup. There was a bug. It should have been fixed, but a deadlock was introduced (by me) in the afsconf package when CellServDB is reread. Broken 1.2.4 or so, fixed 1.2.11 or so, iirc. Since it appears that the operation of copying a new CellServD

[OpenAFS] CellServDB file update...

2006-05-15 Thread Rodney M Dyer
ts as well as our XP clients. Our XP clients started returning the error SEC_E_NO_KERB_KEY. Is the date/time stamp on the CellServDB files used for security in some fashion? We didn't think the file server process re-read the CellServDB file without a BOS restart. Rodney Rodney M. Dy

[OpenAFS] OpenAFS and Kerberos Workshop 2006...

2006-05-02 Thread Rodney M Dyer
Anyone know the status of this years workshop? I'd like to know the price and how to register. The website is a bit lacking in that area. Rodney ___ OpenAFS-info mailing list OpenAFS-info@openafs.org https://lists.openafs.org/mailman/listinfo/openaf

RE: [OpenAFS] AKLOG build error...

2006-04-29 Thread Rodney M Dyer
At 07:37 PM 4/28/2006, Jeffrey Hutzelman wrote: To work around the problem, you will want to edit src/cf/osconf.m4, find the stanza for sun4x_59 or whatever Solaris you're using, and change the definitions of CC, CCOBJ, and MT_CC to point to whereever your compiler really is. Then rebuild the

[OpenAFS] AKLOG build error...

2006-04-27 Thread Rodney M Dyer
Hello all, We are seeing a AKLOG build error when compiling OpenAFS 1.4.1 on Solaris 9. We've seen this in the past and thought this problem would be solved in 1.4.1. In the past we had to add a patch to make the build work, which we can still do, we just thought that everyone interested sho

Re: [OpenAFS] delayed write failures with windows client 1.4.0096

2006-04-11 Thread Rodney M Dyer
At 10:54 AM 4/11/2006, ted creedon wrote: There are delayed write failures when using MS Office products (Excel, MS Access) and other hangups requiring a reboot. I've also seen these failures from time to time (I'm on 1.4.0 Windows client). Just a completely anecdotal observation seems to sug

Re: [OpenAFS] Changes for Mosaic's AFS cell...

2006-04-07 Thread Rodney M Dyer
At 12:13 PM 4/7/2006, Sergio Gelato wrote: I don't think Rodney was asking for binaries here. I wonder whether he has noticed that the CVS web interface lets one look up individual "deltas"? Yes, I was "replied to" on that very subject last night. It isn't quite as nice as going to "downloads

Re: [OpenAFS] Changes for Mosaic's AFS cell...

2006-04-06 Thread Rodney M Dyer
Ok great response. I believe I now have a "clue" on where OpenAFS is relating to all my questions. 1. Given the responses I believe we will continue to wait patiently for 1.4.1. I understand that no version will ever be completely bug free, but we really would like the server side stuff to

Re: [OpenAFS] Changes for Mosaic's AFS cell...

2006-04-06 Thread Rodney M Dyer
Thanks to everyone who responded. I thoroughly appreciate it. To clarify a few points... 1. We currently have three cell servers. We are shutting down one of the cell servers and moving it (creating a new one) to/in another building under a new name and IP. I believe the process outlined

[OpenAFS] Changes for Mosaic's AFS cell...

2006-04-05 Thread Rodney M Dyer
eed to do is update our key files on the file servers right? Can AKLOG do what it needs to do without having access to a 5 to 4 daemon? Thanks, Rodney Rodney M. Dyer Windows Systems Programmer Mosaic Computing Group William States Lee College of Engineering University of North Carolina at Cha

Re: [OpenAFS] What filesystem?

2006-03-04 Thread Rodney M Dyer
end up turning to NAS or SAN. Like you said, Dfs is primarily an all Windows technology anyway. If you need anything heterogeneous then you must turn to AFS. Rodney Rodney M. Dyer Windows Systems Programmer Mosaic Computing Group William States Lee College of Engineering University of North

Re: [OpenAFS] OpenAFS Windows client will not map drives

2006-03-03 Thread Rodney M Dyer
At 02:45 PM 3/3/2006, Jeffrey Altman wrote: The GINA is not going to be involved in the CIFS communication. The afslogon.dll is not required for that either. I understand this. I only mention the GINA because, to put it bluntly, I don't like how the Novell client works on Windows. When a Nov

Re: [OpenAFS] OpenAFS Windows client will not map drives

2006-03-03 Thread Rodney M Dyer
and the loopback adapter. We DO NOT however use the Novell GINA module. After we install the Novell client, we replace the nwgina.dll back to msgina.dll. We also place the afslogon.dll authenticator first in the providers list. Rodney Rodney M. Dyer Windows Systems Programmer Mosaic

Re: [OpenAFS] Universities that are running AFS

2006-02-23 Thread Rodney M Dyer
At 01:16 PM 2/23/2006, John Bass wrote: I tried to convince my boss of using AFS, is there anyone of you who has information of the universities running AFS? Um, you are kidding right? Universities -are- the infrastructure of AFS. Rodney Rodney M. Dyer Windows Systems Programmer Mosaic

Re: [OpenAFS] deploying software via afs

2006-02-02 Thread Rodney M Dyer
en the user clicks on them. In this case you might need to manage AFS ACLs to prevent access to applications that some users shouldn't get to. But this is the case even if you used CIFS, NFS, or Novell NCP. Depending on your own IT environment the above process may be over complicated.

Re: [OpenAFS] home on afs woes

2006-01-05 Thread Rodney M Dyer
vel ACLs in AFS? Rodney Rodney M. Dyer Windows Systems Programmer Mosaic Computing Group William States Lee College of Engineering University of North Carolina at Charlotte Email: rmdyer_at_uncc.edu Web: http://www.coe.uncc.edu/~rmdyer Phone: (704)687-3518 Help Desk Line: (704)687-3150 FAX: (704)

Re: [OpenAFS] Windows Logon Scripts

2005-12-06 Thread Rodney M Dyer
fs logon network provider (afslogon.dll). Because of the method used with the first logon script, we cannot use it under a Windows Terminal Server environment, but that isn't a problem so far in our network. The second logon script runs simply under the users account. The second script mount

Re: [OpenAFS] afs vs nfs

2005-11-22 Thread Rodney M Dyer
th increase, AFS feels the pressure from less ambitious protocols since their net can be cast much wider. But again, AFS solves a number of other items that keeps it at the top of my list. Rodney Rodney M. Dyer Windows Systems Programmer Mosaic Computing Group William States Lee College of Eng

Re: [OpenAFS] LDAP authentication

2005-09-23 Thread Rodney M Dyer
At 10:06 PM 9/23/2005, Derek Atkins wrote: LDAP is *NOT* an authentication service. If you think it is, then you are just confused. And this is my single biggest gripe with the industry. Many off-the-shelf ID management and portal solutions from "big" vendors (Sun/Novell) are using LDAP wit

Re: [OpenAFS] transarc.com

2005-09-21 Thread Rodney M Dyer
At 11:08 AM 9/21/2005, ed wrote: Why does transarc.com point to a porn site? Because AFS is as good as porn? Because AFS is scalable enough to store all of the worlds porn? Just a guess. Rodney ___ OpenAFS-info mailing list OpenAFS-info@openafs.o

Re: [OpenAFS] OpenAFS in a production environment

2005-09-07 Thread Rodney M Dyer
At 06:29 PM 9/7/2005, Jeffrey Hutzelman wrote: What we fixed was crappy behavior when a client falls off the network and then later comes back with a different IP address, while the fileserver has tried to break a callback in the meantime. The IETF network had some problems that week, one eff

Re: [OpenAFS] Port probing our AFS cell...

2005-09-07 Thread Rodney M Dyer
At 01:13 PM 9/7/2005, you wrote: * Rodney M Dyer [2005-09-06 13:33:42 -0400]: > We've also seen our BOS process die leaving strange last-write-times on > some of the logs. Notice the date on the core, BosLog, and VolserLog files: > > # ls -l > total 9012 >

[OpenAFS] Port probing our AFS cell...

2005-09-06 Thread Rodney M Dyer
We are checking into possible probing (hacking) attempts on our AFS file servers. We are seeing one address (24.74.66.175) that our fileserver needs to perform a callback on and it fails. The problem is that it seems to fail on port numbers that are increasing by 12 each time. The following

[OpenAFS] OpenAFS client and load balancing...

2005-08-09 Thread Rodney M Dyer
Hi, Would it be possible to put an algorithm for load balancing into the AFS client such that the client would select the next server in its preference list if the data stream fed to it by the server was "too slow"? Then, every few minutes, or hours, re-try the primary preferences again and

Re: [OpenAFS] OpenAFS vs Microsoft Windows Vista (Beta 1)

2005-07-31 Thread Rodney M Dyer
At 07:38 AM 7/31/2005, Jeffrey Altman wrote: Please be aware that OpenAFS for Windows does not run on Microsoft Windows Vista (Beta 1). If you belong to a site that has a Microsoft Support contract or if you are part of the beta program, please file a report that OpenAFS for Windows has been b

[OpenAFS] Fix web permissions problem...

2005-07-30 Thread Rodney M Dyer
When trying to download 1.3.8600 the following message is encountered on the website... "Forbidden You don't have permission to access /dl/openafs/1.3.86/winnt/OpenAFSforWindows-1-3-8600.exe on this server." Rodney ___ OpenAFS-info mailing list Open

Re: [OpenAFS] Compressed source code...

2005-07-17 Thread Rodney M Dyer
Ok ok, I've observed that it was an oversite, and have already downloaded the TAR file itself. WinZIP can deal with TARs directly, even though they aren't compressed. I'm not really interested in having every compression tool under the sun (Microsystems? ... pun) installed. I'm also willing t

Re: [OpenAFS] Compressed source code...

2005-07-17 Thread Rodney M Dyer
At 10:15 PM 7/17/2005, Derrick J Brashear wrote: Wireless (non 802.11) network isn't free, and I like to develop from random places. You're splitting hairs here. ;-) ___ OpenAFS-info mailing list OpenAFS-info@openafs.org https://lists.openafs.org/m

Re: [OpenAFS] Compressed source code...

2005-07-17 Thread Rodney M Dyer
At 07:21 PM 7/17/2005, you wrote: Sorry, I'm ignorant as usual. And now that I've fired up my Windows machine, I can't reproduce what R. Dyer's talking about. I have seen it before, though. Maybe in Netscape 7.0 or 7.1. What version of Windows are you running? What compression tools do you

[OpenAFS] Compressed source code...

2005-07-17 Thread Rodney M Dyer
I made a couple of comments the other day about the web page, but that thread had a life of its own and has now changed direction. I thought it would be better to start another one that is specific to my question. In the original thread on the web page I commented that clicking on the "openaf

RE: [OpenAFS] OpenAFS Web page...

2005-07-15 Thread Rodney M Dyer
All right; we'll call it a draw. Rodney ___ OpenAFS-info mailing list OpenAFS-info@openafs.org https://lists.openafs.org/mailman/listinfo/openafs-info

Re: [OpenAFS] OpenAFS Web page...

2005-07-14 Thread Rodney M Dyer
At 01:11 AM 7/15/2005, you wrote: I see no "1.3.8400" string. I do see a "1.3.84". You're just as bad as Derrick correcting my grammer. :) I made a mistake in a single email. I'm not the one with the public website. My job is kind of stressful because I'm working against the tsunami of No

[OpenAFS] OpenAFS Web page...

2005-07-14 Thread Rodney M Dyer
It appears that OpenAFS 1.3.8500 is out now. I think the "1.3.8400" string in the release flash needs to be fixed... 11-Jul-2005 - OpenAFS 1.3.85 Released! OpenAFS 1.3.84 represents the new stable Windows release, and includes a multitude of bug fixes as well as several new features.

Re: [OpenAFS] afs directory

2005-07-11 Thread Rodney M Dyer
At 06:36 PM 7/11/2005, Jeffrey Hutzelman wrote: On Saturday, July 09, 2005 11:11:35 PM -0400 Rodney M Dyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: AFS and Kerberos 5 are separate code bases, and neither is "in" the AFS network. Well, that's clearly not true Oh, thank you

Re: [OpenAFS] afs directory

2005-07-10 Thread Rodney M Dyer
At 05:25 PM 7/10/2005, you wrote: To quote Guns and Roses, "I believe what we have here is a failure to communicate". Okay, Ok first, that isn't a Guns and Roses quote, that line is from one of the sweatiest movies ever made "Cool Hand Luke". Rock on. 1. I don't do windows Good enough.

Re: [OpenAFS] afs directory

2005-07-10 Thread Rodney M Dyer
At 03:27 PM 7/10/2005, Michael Norwick wrote: Well, not quite. I've had a test cell up and compiled several versions of OpenAFS, my network uses kerberos authentication to ThisCell via krb524. I just put together another AFS client using 1.3.84 and while testing I was noodling around the vari

Re: [OpenAFS] afs directory

2005-07-09 Thread Rodney M Dyer
At 04:45 PM 7/9/2005, you wrote: Is there a method for finding, or list of, the contents of public afs cells? I'm not sure what you mean. If you mean simply to perform a "dir /s /b" (windows speak), or "ls -al" (unix speak) of any AFS cell, then yes, it is quite simple. You just go to "www.

[OpenAFS] Best Practices Workshop 2005?

2005-05-17 Thread Rodney M Dyer
So what is the latest with the CMU OpenAFS 2005 workshop? When can we register? Is this thing still a go? Rodney Rodney M. Dyer Windows Systems Programmer Mosaic Computing Group William States Lee College of Engineering University of North Carolina at Charlotte Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web: http

Re: [OpenAFS] openafs fileservers in VMware ESX

2005-04-21 Thread Rodney M Dyer
At 04:06 PM 4/21/2005, you wrote: Please don't mention Dell servers around me. Oh no, please don't accuse me of pushing a vendor, especially DELL. I'm just suggesting that the big box solution to emulate smaller boxes just isn't worth the time or money. The big boxes end up costing exponentiall

Re: [OpenAFS] openafs fileservers in VMware ESX

2005-04-21 Thread Rodney M Dyer
At 11:51 PM 4/20/2005, Derek Atkins wrote: I've never seen any reason to virtualize an AFS server. Ever. The key is IO bandwith, which isn't increased by virtualization. You really want separate PHYSICAL servers for AFS servers. Virtualization does not give you any benefits due to hardware fail

Re: [OpenAFS] MS Access and OpenAFS

2005-04-20 Thread Rodney M Dyer
At 05:07 PM 4/20/2005, Jeffrey Altman wrote: Gabe Castillo wrote: > Has anyone used an MS Access database from within OpenAFS? Does it work > with multiple users? I'd heard some talk about AFS not supporting > byte-range locking, and wasn't sure how MS Access fit into this. You do not want to execu

Re: [OpenAFS] RE:Windows registry cleanout

2005-04-08 Thread Rodney M Dyer
At 03:12 PM 4/8/2005, Jeffrey Altman wrote: ted creedon wrote: > Any way to clean out the windows registry when upgrading? (Except manually). We use the following registry script... http://www.coe.uncc.edu/~rmdyer/afs_reg_remove.txt Eg. C:\>regedit -s -i afs_reg_remove.txt Rodney _

Re: [OpenAFS] XP embedded

2005-04-07 Thread Rodney M Dyer
At 05:54 PM 4/7/2005, Stephen Brown wrote: You might want to look at Bart's PE instead of the Windows version: http://www.nu2.nu/pebuilder/ It's sorta equivalent to the WinPE, but not quite, in that it lets you build your own environments. We looked at BartPE before going to WinPE. The main proble

Re: [OpenAFS] XP embedded

2005-04-07 Thread Rodney M Dyer
At 03:48 PM 4/7/2005, you wrote: Christian Ospelkaus wrote: > can anybody on this list comment on whether or not the current windows client > will run on XP embedded (R&S FSP spectrum analyzer) ? Best regards, XP Embedded is a component based operating system. Assuming you have all of the neces

Re: [OpenAFS] Linux client and find command in AFS

2005-04-05 Thread Rodney M Dyer
At 03:09 PM 4/5/2005, you wrote: gnu find is not the same as solaris find. the -noleaf option is the equivalent of the default options with solaris (well, unix) find. so since gnu find goes out of its way to work this way, when other finds do not, i see no reason why the filesystem should go out

Re: [OpenAFS] Linux client and find command in AFS

2005-04-05 Thread Rodney M Dyer
At 01:49 PM 4/5/2005, Derrick J Brashear wrote: use the -noleaf option to find. it's not an afs bug, so you found no bug. Actually, why isn't this a bug? He doesn't need the -noleaf option if there is at least one other "real" directory in the root of the directory he is testing. Rodney ___

Re: [OpenAFS] CFP: AFS & Kerberos Best Practices Workshop 2005

2005-03-23 Thread Rodney M Dyer
Is there a reason that this years AFS Best Practices Workshop isn't being advertised on the OpenAFS web site yet? Rodney ___ OpenAFS-info mailing list OpenAFS-info@openafs.org https://lists.openafs.org/mailman/listinfo/openafs-info

Re: [OpenAFS] OpenAFS and NTFS-File-Stream-Data

2005-02-24 Thread Rodney M Dyer
At 09:12 AM 2/24/05, Jeffrey Altman wrote: The AFS file system does not support multiple stream files. Adding support for this is on the to do list. Probably not for another two years though. Does that require a AFS server/protocol change? Rodney ___

Re: [OpenAFS] Weird Windows folder redirection problem

2005-02-03 Thread Rodney M Dyer
tp://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;Q304624 Rodney Rodney M. Dyer Windows Systems Programmer Mosaic Computing Group William States Lee College of Engineering University of North Carolina at Charlotte Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web: http://www.coe.uncc.edu/~rmdyer Phone: (704)6

[OpenAFS] Director of Computing Services Position

2005-02-03 Thread Rodney M Dyer
position: http://www.coe.uncc.edu/faculty_staff/faculty_openings.html#adme Rodney Rodney M. Dyer Windows Systems Programmer Mosaic Computing Group William States Lee College of Engineering University of North Carolina at Charlotte Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web: http://www.coe.uncc.edu/~rmdyer Phone: (704

Re: [OpenAFS] Roaming Profiles on AFS

2005-01-08 Thread Rodney M Dyer
At 01:48 AM 1/9/05, Jeffrey Altman wrote: When a profile cannot be updated on the network it is left on the local hard disk. Simply perform a recursive directory listing of the profile directory and look for any filenames which are not entirely ASCII. In other words, if they are non-latin chara

Re: [OpenAFS] Roaming Profiles on AFS

2005-01-07 Thread Rodney M Dyer
diagnosis on Windows the following articles are instructive... http://support.microsoft.com/kb/221833 http://www.jsiinc.com/SUBE/tip2100/rh2185.htm Or further, search Google for: "\debug\usermode\userenv.log" Rodney Rodney M. Dyer Windows Systems Programmer Mosaic Computing Group William

Re: [OpenAFS] Happy Thanksgiving! Please support OpenAFS development on Windows

2004-11-26 Thread Rodney M Dyer
At 02:19 PM 11/26/04, Jeffrey Altman wrote: One of the things I have to say thanks for this year is OpenAFS. Just about a year ago I started working with OpenAFS for the first time. Through OpenAFS I have met many new people and have had the pleasure of being able to help improve a product whi

Re[2]: [OpenAFS] drive mappings in Windows XP

2004-11-18 Thread Rodney M Dyer
At 12:15 PM 11/18/04, Ron Croonenberg wrote: Ok, assume that I don't know the first thing about AFS and I want to map a drive. The drive letter I want is J: and I want it to be mapped to /afs/afs-2.csc.depauw.edu/home/cowboy on neptune.csc.depauw.edu that serves the cell afs-2.csc.depauw.edu How

Re: [OpenAFS] Upgrading from 1.2.11 to 1.3.73 - problems?

2004-10-30 Thread Rodney M Dyer
At 12:44 PM 10/29/04, you wrote: I'm about to upgrade my production machine, and unfortunately I can't test the upgrade before I do... Ok, I'm game. Clients? Servers? Windows? Unix? Make? Model? Versions? Upgrade what? I assume you mean client because you said "production machine" not "

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