Despite spending 5 years using AFS on CMU's machines, this is my first time trying to install the software myself. I've run into a problem that has me stumped, and I'm wondering if someone could give me some advice.
Here's the scenario: I've set up an AFS cell (using a bogus Internet domain name as my cell name) for sharing my personal files among my home computers (yes, I know it's overkill). After much banging my head against the wall, I managed to install the client and server software on an Athlon machine running Red Hat Linux 9, located at 192.168.1.103 on my home network (which uses a Linksys wireless router as its gateway to my cable Internet connection). The client software seems to be playing nicely with the server (I'm able to access the mounted volumes as well as authenticate). It may not be relevant, but I will also note that I ran into problems getting BOS to load runntp (I think it may have been conflicting with another time server process installed with Linux by default), so I disabled it. This machine is the only server on the network. I installed the client software (using all the relevant rpm's from the website except the server, krb5, and src ones) on another machine running Red Hat Linux 8 at 192.168.1.100. To simplify debugging, I backed up the sample CellServDB file on the client and replaced it with just the following, which is essentially identical to what's on the server: >richard_eggert.comcast.net #My cell 192.168.1.103 #192.168.1.103 I also updated ThisCell appropriately. However, the initialization script fails to mount /afs. I found the following in /var/log/messages: Oct 3 01:06:39 localhost kernel: afs: Lost contact with file server 127.0.0.1 i n cell richard_eggert.comcast.net Oct 3 01:06:39 localhost kernel: afs: Lost contact with file server 127.0.0.1 i n cell richard_eggert.comcast.net I have absolutely no idea why it would be trying to access a file server at the localhost IP address, and therefore don't know how to fix it. Does anyone have any ideas? Rich Eggert Senior Technical Associate 2 Technology Leadership Program 2 AT&T Government Solutions
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