We've had the same issue here at UNC Charlotte. We are running Transarc's AFS 3.6 v2.32 (Patch 4). We are seeing random afsd_service.exe crashes on our Windows XP machines. A few of weeks ago we found extensive probing of NetBIOS ports from outside our campus gateway. We disabled the NetBIOS at the gateway and the level of AFS crashes went way down. We still have crashes however because we found other probing coming from compromised machines within our own network.
This is a bad thing. We don't want to keep NetBIOS disabled at the router because we actually use Microsoft networking in some cases from the internet. In other cases we run Samba servers for access to AFS filespace for people who don't use the AFS client.
I posted this same message weeks ago on the list. A Mr. Scott Williams at NC State was also seeing the problem.
From the looks of it, I don't think anything is going to be done about the problem since no one on the OpenAFS group cares anything about Windoz... Since this seems to be the case, we are searching for other alternatives to AFS. I guess I shouldn't be surprised that AFS is so unstable on Windoz machines, I mean, it is open source, so you get what you get when you get it. (Yes, I am being sarcastic here about *nix, and open source in general.)
Rodney
Rodney M. Dyer
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College of Engineering Computing Services
University of North Carolina at Charlotte
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At 04:10 PM 10/28/2002 -0700, you wrote:
Here's the strange happening We're using openafs and transarc AFS on windows 2000 machines.On some systems we see the AFS client dying. The sympton is that klog will not get any tokens, returning a message that the afs client services was not started or stopped. So, we open a command window, issue 'net stop "IBM AFS Client"' and then as soon as that completes, issue 'net start "IBM AFS Client"' This has to be done with admin priveledge. After completing these command, afs works fine. klog gets tokens. the gui gets tokens. Drive maps work. The problem here is twofold 1) we shouldn't have to do this 2) you have to have admin priveledge to restart the service. Rebooting the system will not help. Attached is an exceprt from the system logs 1527!System!Service Control Manager!ERROR!PP120144!Tue Oct 22 05:55:04 2002!7031!None!The IBM AFS Client service terminated unexpectedly. It has done this 1 time(s). The following corrective action will be taken in 0 milliseconds: No action. 3878!Application!AFS Client!ERROR!PP120144!Mon Oct 28 15:15:12 2002!1002!None!Invalid SMB message, length 64 3877!Application!AFS Client!ERROR!PP120144!Mon Oct 28 15:12:21 2002!1002!None!Invalid SMB message, length 64 3876!Application!AFS Client!ERROR!PP120144!Mon Oct 28 14:51:11 2002!1002!None!Invalid SMB message, length 64 3875!Application!AFS Client!ERROR!PP120144!Mon Oct 28 14:45:07 2002!1002!None!Invalid SMB message, length 64 3874!Application!AFS Client!ERROR!PP120144!Mon Oct 28 14:42:08 2002!1002!None!Invalid SMB message, length 64 3873!Application!AFS Client!ERROR!PP120144!Mon Oct 28 14:38:59 2002!1002!None!Invalid SMB message, length 64 3872!Application!AFS Client!ERROR!PP120144!Mon Oct 28 14:34:54 2002!1002!None!Invalid SMB message, length 64 3871!Application!AFS Client!ERROR!PP120144!Mon Oct 28 14:31:52 2002!1002!None!Invalid SMB message, length 64 3870!Application!AFS Client!ERROR!PP120144!Mon Oct 28 14:20:38 2002!1002!None!Invalid SMB message, length 64 -- David Bear College of Public Programs/ASU _______________________________________________ OpenAFS-info mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.openafs.org/mailman/listinfo/openafs-info
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