Rodney M Dyer wrote: > Well, I fixed the "problem", and I wasn't sure if it was a "bug", or > just something about the client that I didn't know. Eg, (just for > example, not that this is real) you can't use more than n characters in > the computername. > > I remember back before the loopback adapter the computername was limited > to n - 4 characters, or something like that. This was for the "-afs" > part that you needed to add.
The netbios name must be 11 characters or less was an IBM transarc limitation. I believe the afsd_service.exe would panic and fail to start if that was true. OpenAFS does not have this limitation. The requirement for OpenAFS is that if the loopback adapter is not installed the first 11 characters of the netbios name must be unique. The name "ABCDEFGHIJKLMNO" will become "ABCDEFGHIJK-AFS". whereas "ABC" will become "ABC-AFS". Under no circumstances will the afsd_service fail to start because of this. My guess is that what you were really seeing was the bug related to the BackConnectionHostNames registry value and that by changing the name you forced the registry value to be rewritten. Jeffrey Altman
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