On Mon, Oct 06, 2008 at 09:25:04PM +0200, Gémes Géza wrote:
> Unfortunately this time it seems to be a lot harder, the main change
> being at least to my understanding, the fact that the openafs kernel
> module doesn't advertise its services as a system call, and thus we
> cannot link with just lib
On Mon, Oct 06, 2008 at 09:37:53PM +0200, Gémes Géza wrote:
> > While not having looked at AFS code, it must at the end come
> > down to some syscall. Either an ioctl, a write call to some
> > code in /proc/whatever, or something else. 99% the coding
> > work is just setting up the right structures
On Sun, Oct 05, 2008 at 10:41:06PM +0200, Gémes Géza wrote:
> I've built up a patch (attachment 3658 to bug 5799 on samba bugzilla)
> which makes fake-kaserver and vfs-afsacl work again.
> But the patched configure makes smbd, net and maybe other binaries link
> with libsys.a in order to communicat
On Sun, Sep 28, 2008 at 09:49:34PM +0200, Gémes Géza wrote:
> from which to me the suspicious line seems to be:
> afs_syscall(0x14, 0, 0x400c5603, 0xbffcbfd4, 0) = -1 ENOSYS (Function
> not implemented)
> which I simply don't understand, because the box otherwise is a fully
> functional openafs cli
Hi, Jeffrey!
On Wed, Oct 18, 2006 at 08:19:03AM +0200, Volker Lendecke wrote:
> > I don't know where you can read about it but it is in fact true.
> > The reason it took so long to get OpenAFS for Windows to work on
> > Vista was because of the TLS support. Every Vi
On Wed, Oct 18, 2006 at 02:05:08PM -0400, Jeffrey Altman wrote:
> All of our stress tests are in the openafs source repository
> under src/WINNT/tests. Feel free to make use of them.
Great, thanks for pointing that out. I'll take a look.
Volker
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Hi, David!
On Wed, Oct 18, 2006 at 02:15:55PM -0300, David Steele wrote:
> Evan Macbeth asked me if I'd take a look at this and I told him I
> would. I do need a few more details, however, before I can start.
If you create this, it would be great if this would be
usable not only by AFS but also
On Tue, Oct 17, 2006 at 05:02:47PM -0400, Jeffrey Altman wrote:
> > And, Samba can nowadays be configured to accept kerberos
> > tickets even without being an ADS member, but Windows
> > clients will not appreciate this. But that's just Windows.
>
> This discussion is specifically related to Windo
Hello!
On Mon, Oct 16, 2006 at 05:05:20PM -0400, Jeffrey Altman wrote:
> In answer to your question regarding Samba. There are several sites
> that I work with who have used Samba as a gateway for users on MacOS X
> and Windows that do not have AFS clients installed. The number one
> issue that
On Mon, Oct 16, 2006 at 03:39:09PM -0400, Dan Pritts wrote:
> what's the current status of using samba to serve files from an
> AFS backend to windows clients? I could easily use Linux or Solaris
> as the samba server. Other platforms would be possible.
That works perfectly fine.
> how does ha
On Fri, Mar 03, 2006 at 11:22:55PM +0100, Horst Birthelmer wrote:
> >Anybody can see that some of very smart people made and use AFS,
> >but how can an overworked person like me convince my also
> >overworked boss that we should spend the money and time necessary
> >to learn, deploy, train, a
On Fri, Feb 03, 2006 at 10:37:17AM -0500, Jeffrey Altman wrote:
> Theoretically, Samba could implement those IOCTL operations and then
> use the OpenAFS for Windows command line tools and AFS Shell Extension
> to communicate with the Samba server. That is in fact how Windows 3.1
Tried to implemen
On Fri, Feb 03, 2006 at 10:10:56AM -0500, Jeffrey Altman wrote:
> People talk about how bad the performance of AFS is. It is nowhere near
> as bad as the performance of SMB. You want your AFS client close to the
Probably arguing from a Samba pov on an afs list is just a Bad Idea (tm).
Volker
On Fri, Feb 03, 2006 at 10:08:31AM +0100, Horst Birthelmer wrote:
> ... and, Samba and AFS are as secure or unsecure as the admins make
> it. The question is how much work you would have to do, to make it
> secure, but that's completely beyond the point.
The only real thing you can't get with
On Thu, Feb 02, 2006 at 05:14:46PM -0500, Gordon Bowersox wrote:
> Any hidden gotchas on my path? Any obvious mistakes on my part?
The main gotcha in this picture is that even with an AD environment you can not
rely on the XP workstation always sending you a kerberos token. If you connect
to the
On Wed, Nov 09, 2005 at 05:19:13PM -0500, Derrick J Brashear wrote:
> They do. It's not native support in the sense that we still want them to
> have a single des key rather than any supported krb5 key type.
Ok, thanks for the info.
Volker
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On Wed, Nov 09, 2005 at 01:26:44PM +0300, Education Center wrote:
> AFS includes its own implementation of Kerberos, the KAServer. However, new
> installs of KAServer are not recommended as it is based on a draft version of
> the obsolete Kerberos 4 protocol. Even though AFS doesn't support Kerber
On Sat, Mar 19, 2005 at 11:23:34AM -0500, Derrick J Brashear wrote:
> As it should be, but what started the bosserver?
Manual startup:
> : /home/root ! \> ps -ef|grep boss
> : /home/root ! \> ulimit -c
1048575
> : /home/root ! \> /usr/afs/bin/bosserver
> : /home/root ! \> ps -ef|grep files
ro
On Fri, Mar 18, 2005 at 06:45:07PM -0500, Derrick J Brashear wrote:
> I assume it's not the easy problem: a bosserver started somewhere system
> resource limits are causing no core to be written?
Yes, the file server is started by bosserver.
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On Fri, Mar 18, 2005 at 03:29:05PM -0800, Mike Fedyk wrote:
> I will have to test if samba and OpenOffice use file or byte range
> locking with the apps I am using.
Samba does byte range locking itself, because the Windows semantics of those
locks is quite different from posix semantics. By defau
On Fri, Mar 18, 2005 at 05:08:49PM -0500, Jeffrey Hutzelman wrote:
> You should get a full core dump from SIGABRT or SIGSEGV.
Tried SEGV repeatedly and ABRT once. Neither generated any core file for me.
Volker
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Hi!
Due to problems with a AIX pthreaded fileserver I'd like to do post-mortem
analysis. The first problem is that I can't get it to coredump.
uname -a gives:
AIX myhostname 2 5 0043304C4C00
The fileserver is 1.3.79, compiled with
VisualAge C++ Professional / C for AIX Compiler, Version 6
On Wed, Mar 16, 2005 at 04:38:04PM +0100, Christian Fischer wrote:
> unfortunately, AFS over Samba is not an option for us, since we do not
> want clear text passwords over the network.
You don't need to use clear text passwords. Look at the
--with-fake-kaserver=yes option. If you trust your Samba
On Wed, Mar 16, 2005 at 03:02:36PM +, Chris Crowther wrote:
>Would translating those into whole-file locks instead be a workable
> solution?
For Samba as an AFS front end I've got a patch that takes another route: Once a
file is opened in any way (read or write), I flock the complete file
On Tue, Mar 08, 2005 at 09:00:04AM -0700, Dexter Kimball wrote:
> Take a look at ports in use -- we've seen this on a Solaris box running some
> sort of RAID management utility and IBM/Transarc AFS -- it was using
> 2040/tcp -- turns out the volserver talks to the fileserver on this port ...
> FSYN
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