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
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
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.edu/~rmdyer
Phone: (704)687-3518
Help Desk Line: (704)687-3150
FAX: (704)687-2352
Office
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
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
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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
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.
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
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 global drive
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
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
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
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.
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: (704)687-3150
FAX: (704)687-2352
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
?
* 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 Systems
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
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
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
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:\tempmd5sum openafs-en_US-1-5-20.msi
f7f2f9a6f6e905cbef7a45aa9dbfcbc1
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:\tempmd5sum openafs-en_US-1-4-4.msi
1931383e7fb944427cdf73c4ddef0f34 *openafs-en_US-1-4-4.msi
Rodney
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.
days.
Incoherent ramblings aside, take it from someone who has worked in the
trenches. DON'T do it. You are setting yourself up 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
. 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. 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
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
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
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.
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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.
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 be
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
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 thought that
/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
Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Web: http://www.coe.uncc.edu
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
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
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
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
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
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 Windows 2000. After a few hours scratching my head and
wearing out my
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 whatever
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
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 over
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. Dyer
Windows
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
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
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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
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
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 and
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
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
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 Charlotte
Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Web: http://www.coe.uncc.edu/~rmdyer
Phone: (704)687
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 Carolina at Charlotte
Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Web: http://www.coe.uncc.edu/~rmdyer
Phone: (704)687-3518
Help Desk Line: (704)687
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
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
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
even if you used CIFS, NFS, or Novell NCP.
Depending on your own IT environment the above process may be over
complicated. There's obviously a ton of information I haven't written
about here. All I can say is good luck to you.
Rodney
Rodney M. Dyer
Windows Systems Programmer
Mosaic Computing
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)687-2352
Office: Cameron
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 mounts needed drives and performs
other miscellaneous items.
Rodney
Rodney M. Dyer
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 Engineering
University of North Carolina
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 with
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
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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
-rw-r--r-- 1 root
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
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
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
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
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
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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
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
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. ;-)
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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
All right; we'll call it a draw.
Rodney
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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.
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
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 for knit picking. Of course
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
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.
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
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
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
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
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 (RS FSP spectrum analyzer) ? Best regards,
XP Embedded is a component based operating system. Assuming you have all
of the
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
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
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
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
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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
option will prevent folder syncronization occuring on your AFS drive that
is used for redirection...
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\NetCache
DisableFRAdminPin REG_DWORD 0x01
See...
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;Q304624
Rodney
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
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 States Lee
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
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
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
At 09:40 AM 10/13/04, Jeffrey Altman wrote:
Integrated login cannot pass Kerberos 5 tickets from the Network Provider
to the users logon session. Therefore KFW will never have tickets. If
you want the users to obtain K5 tickets and have them be used in the logon
session, the workstation must
At 10:59 AM 10/6/04, Ron Croonenberg wrote:
When I use the AFS client and try to map a drive via the drive letters
tab, it won't work.
Be specific. What do you mean by won't work?
Global drives are not mounted as the user, they are mounted by the user
that the AFS service daemon runs as, user
At 12:07 PM 10/6/04, Jeffrey Altman wrote:
If I remember correctly, Ron also has some Novell client software
installed on his machine. I think there might be some interaction between
the Novell client software and AFS but I am not sure.
I use the Novell client with AFS and don't have any
Brian,
At 10:44 AM 6/16/2004, Brian Jones wrote:
are there any situations where accepting the default options when
installing the openafs client for windows (1.3.64) are not recommended? i
think enabling afs crypt security and the freelance client are currently
both selected.
The current
At 01:01 PM 6/16/2004, Derrick J Brashear wrote:
Actually I think it's sites where root.afs is (or isn't) some particular
volume number. Sites other than uncc had the same problem.
Ah...right, I had forgotten this little bit of trivia.
Thanks,
Rodney
At 03:28 PM 5/11/2004, Jeffrey Altman wrote:
klog.exe is strictly kerberos 4 on Windows
aklog.exe defaults to kerberos 5 but can use Kerberos 4 if the -4 switch
is specified.
Just nitpicking, but why can't klog.exe be converted so that if Kfw is
available it does a K5 auth and aklog is unneeded?
At 06:26 PM 4/7/2004, you wrote:
Not that an in-memory credential cache would make any difference in this
situation.
If you have root privs you can access it. This is true on Windows as
well. If
you are SYSTEM you can do whatever you want.
True. But that problem only occurs because the
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