I'm having the same problem - can't set up a writable share but can view
using a browser

Hope there's a quick fix

tedc

On Mon, Sep 12, 2011 at 3:01 PM, Jeffrey Altman <
[email protected]> wrote:

> The "AFS" adapter is a loopback adapter.  It has no Internet access
> because it isn't a network on which there is a router.
>
> On 9/12/2011 5:25 PM, John Tang Boyland wrote:
> > I'm embarrassed to say that after two years of trying to get students to
> > successfully install OpenAFS on Windows, I find that one of the
> > diagnostics I was using is irrelevant.  When a student installed OpenAFS
> > but didn't get things to work, since I don't know Windows at all,
> > I would try to wander around the myriad pages in the explorer.
> >
> > I stumbled on the "Network and Sharing Center" and sure enough
> > AFS would be listed as an "Unidentified Network" and that
> > it had "No network access".  I would click on "AFS" and get
> > an AFS status page that shows IPv4 connectivity: No network access
> > and activity: XXX packets sent and 0 received.
> >
> > We would try various magic incantations to get AFS to work.
> > If they worked (i.e. we could go to \\afs\cs.uwm.edu in the Explorer
> > window), the student would be happy and go off.  And I wouldn't
> > see the computer again.
> >
> > Finally someone got me my own computer to experiment with and
> > (surprise surpise) even when AFS is working just fine, the Network
> > and Sharing center STILL says that AFS has no network access.
> > So, a view that I thought would help with diagnosis is worthless.
> >
> > Regards,
> > John
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