Richard Brittain wrote:
> Hi,
>  just updated to 1.5.66 on Windows XP (32-bit) (which would have been
> less confusing if I'd caught up on the mailing list first).
> 
> It seems that I can't connect to any file servers for cells not in the
> CellServDB file.  I know that DNS lookups are working, because I can
> authenticate and do things like checkservers and getserverprefs, but
> attempts to browse into the cell gets a failure message.  'fs
> getserverprefs' only showed db servers, no file servers.
> 
> I usually run windows clients with an empty CellServDB file since my
> users rarely need to get off campus, and DNS lookups avoid a file that
> might go stale.  When I put the full public CellServDB back in place,
> everything worked again.

I have confirmed the problem.  It is a side effect of adding support
for vlservers running on arbitrary port numbers.  The port number
exported by the AFSDB lookup code is being translated htons() more than
once.

> BTW, I like the reduction in functionality of afscreds - it seems more
> natural this way, even on versions of Windows that didn't care about
> mixing admin and non-admin functions in one tool.

Thanks for the feedback.

Jeffrey Altman



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