On 6/20/2016 5:09 PM, Garrison, Christine wrote:
> Jeff,
> 
> Thank you for the "vos addsite" idea and for clarifying. That does seem like 
> a better option, assuming we can solve the Samba problem. The .readonly 
> volume produced acts just like the .backup mount did, so we are stuck. 
> Windows reports "failed with an error of 5" upon attempts to open files 
> through Samba from the .readonly volume mount.
> 
> I was pretty sure the answer here would be something like that, but the Samba 
> also people haven't been helpful about OpenAFS issues for a long time, so we 
> are kind of on our own. Which is one of the reasons we are retiring this 
> system.
> 
> Chris

Another approach you can take is to use the -readonly switch on the
fileserver process.   In that situation it won't matter if the volumes
are .readonly or not, the fileserver won't permit modifications.

Jeffrey Altman


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