The issue appears to be that the security database used for tracking
quarantine files does not know how to track files in AFS, for reasons I
have not yet figured out. There are cryptic errors which show up in the
system message log which hint in this direction.


On Mon, Jan 20, 2014 at 3:41 PM, Duncan S Kincaid <[email protected]> wrote:

> Indeed, this is the ‘fix' we had found for our environment where Macintosh
> users’ home directories are on AFS.
> Interestingly, I have heard reports of this same problem (and solution)
> with users' home directories on *NFS* .
>
> best regards
> dk
>
>
> Duncan Kincaid
>
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> cron | mit school of architecture and planning
>
> On Jan 10, 2014, at 3:50 AM, Peter Dissing <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> >
> > Hi Jan
> >
> > You can "fix" it here and now by allowing applications from anywhere...
> (it doesn´t make sense to me)
> >
> > "System-Preferences" -> "Security & Privacy"  on the general tab bottom
> section.
> > "Set Allow applications downloaded from:"  change it to "anywhere" and
> it works...
> >
> > Note that this will change the security level on the machine
> >
> > Best
> > Peter Dissing
> > Aalborg University
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: [email protected] [mailto:
> [email protected]] On Behalf Of Jan Pospíšil
> > Sent: 9. januar 2014 19:15
> > To: [email protected]
> > Subject: [OpenAFS] Error opening files on AFS in MacOSX
> >
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I am running OpenAFS 1.6.5 client on MacOSX 10.9.1 (Mavericks).
> > Sometimes (very hard to tell under which circumstances), when I am
> trying to open (ususally PDF) files on AFS with Preview.app or "Adobe
> Acrobat Pro.app" I get the following error:
> >
> > "file.pdf" is damaged and can't be opened. You should move it to the
> Trash.
> >
> > Preview.app fails to open also other non-pdf files, e.g. images.
> > However, if I copy the file to the local file system, it opens without
> problems.
> >
> > Does someone know if it is a MacOSX issue or if there is a problem with
> the OpenAFS client? If I knew how, I could provide more information.
> >
> > Thank you for your help in advance.
> > Regards
> > Jan
> >
> > --
> > Jan Pospisil, Ph.D.           e-mail: [email protected]
> > University of West Bohemia    phone:  (+420) 37763-2675
> > Department of Mathematics     fax:    (+420) 37763-2602
> > Plzen, Czech Republic         address: Univerzitni 22, 306 14
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Derrick

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