Thanks, Jeff. As usual, I am asking my questions clumsily.
What should my user install in order to use OpenAFS client on his Windows Server 2012R2 machine? We have somewhat dated instructions for configuring to our cell in IU's KB, and I'm trying to clarify for him to be able to get set up and working. I don't want to make him use our rickety Samba gateway for this purpose in particular; efficiency and untranslated access to the fileservers is important. Thanks again for your help. Christine -- E. Christine Garrison Indiana University Research Technologies Research Storage ________________________________________ From: Jeffrey Altman <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, June 27, 2016 5:09 PM To: Garrison, Christine; [email protected] Subject: Re: [OpenAFS] Client install on Windows Server 2012R2 On 6/27/2016 3:33 PM, Garrison, Christine wrote: > Hello OpenAFS folks, > > > I've got a user with a Win 2012R2 Server that's trying to install and > configure the OpenAFS for Windows client. Their OS is 64 bit. > > > We tried an install of OpenAFS for Windows 1.7.31 from the openafs.org > website, but got a missing DLL error (sorry, he closed the shared screen > too fast for me to jot it down) when trying to run the server manager to > do a config of the cell. Christine, None of the cell management GUI tools work on Windows. Just don't install them or expect them to work. The "Server Manager" literally a tool for managing the cell not the client. > We're more familiar with the 1.6.x client here; can it be run on Win > Server 2012R2? The OpenAFS 1.6 clients on Windows use the SMB gateway interface that doesn't work on Windows 7 or above. FYI, as of July 29th all new installations of Windows will require Secure Boot. At that time Microsoft signed device drivers will become mandatory. AuriStor, Inc. hopes to have its Windows client approved for Microsoft's signatures by that date. Jeffrey Altman _______________________________________________ OpenAFS-info mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openafs.org/mailman/listinfo/openafs-info
