John Tang Boyland wrote: > I just realized I got more information from the student:
> ] I got Kerberos to validate me, but it only lists the > ] Kerberos 4 and 5 identity, it does not have an afs > ] identity justs lists the afs as blank. When i try to > ] start the afs service it says may not have permission > ] to perform this action. The user must be the machine "Administrator" to start/stop services on Vista. Even the "Administrator" account is not really the Administrator on Vista due to the User Account Control feature. This feature is designed to protect users from themselves by always executing their applications as a normal user UNLESS the user explicitly starts the application with "Run as Administrator". Not that this should matter. Is the real problem that the AFS client service never started? If so, the afsd_init.log file written to the %WinDir%\TEMP directory is the file to look at. > ] when i try to go into the afs configuration when it > ] asks for cell it will not accept any uppercase, > ] everything is converted during typing into lower case. > ] when i go into the afs client configuration, and goto > ] the afs cells tab, and there is a cs.uwm.edu cell and > ] when i double click into it, it goes into a properties > ] for it, it then changes itself to miller.cs.uwm.edu So the user modified the contents of the CellServDB file. Or at least attempted to. If the CellServDB file was modified (or if Vista's UAC system file virtualization created a dummy version in the user's profile) then perhaps the problem is in fact that the Cell Volume Database location information was bad and the proper realm name for the cell could not be obtained. > > (changing cs.uwm.edu to miller.cs.uwm.edu is a bad idea: > the AFS cell is cs.uwm.edu, but miller.cs.uwm.edu is the > canonical name of the host cs.uwm.edu, which is useful for HTTP > and logic, but not for AFS.) Yes. This would mess things up and since the configuration file is a data file. Uninstalling and re-installing does not replace it unless the user explicitly states that it should be replaced. Jeffrey Altman Secure Endpoints Inc.
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