Re: [OpenAFS] Problms with Kerberos 5 AFS and tokens, permissions

2005-03-16 Thread Sergio Gelato
* Lars Schimmer [2005-03-16 05:00:13 +0100]: Thx for answer. The problem is NOT getting any tokens. I managed to kinit, get my authentification from kerberos5 and I managed to aklog and got my token. So for my view I used: kinit user - OK aklog - OK After trying to list my token with tokens

[OpenAFS] ownership of files

2005-03-16 Thread Rudy Gevaert
Hello, I've installed Openafs (with the debian packages) and have it almost fully working. When I'm logged on, and have the afs token the files I make don't have as owner the user who made the file. The group is ok. [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/afs/gevaert.sp/linux$ id test03 uid=1003(test03)

Re: [OpenAFS] Problms with Kerberos 5 AFS and tokens, permissions

2005-03-16 Thread Lars Schimmer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Sergio Gelato schrieb: | Unfortunately, that doesn't mean you got the same token in both cases. | | What service principal are you using for your AFS cell? Is it | afs/[EMAIL PROTECTED] or simply [EMAIL PROTECTED] ? If both principals are known to the

Re: [OpenAFS] OpenAFS on Gentoo

2005-03-16 Thread Stefaan
Hi Kevin, I remember having similar problems, but then I switched off Preemtible Kernel and all suddenly worked well (though there are qsome quircks). It does have some speed impact, but it is less demanding on kernel code. If this doesn't solve your problem, let me know, and I'll send you my

[OpenAFS] uss add fails!

2005-03-16 Thread dom . toretto
Hello again, I've now succeeded in putting up 3 working database and fileservers. This by installing the 1.2.11 version. So the quorum error is gone. No I am trying to create user accounts with the uss commands. But it won't work. This is the uss.template in /etc I've created: A $USER 0

Re: [OpenAFS] AFS file locking doesn't work anymore with ms office xp

2005-03-16 Thread Christian Fischer
Jeffrey Altman wrote: Christian Fischer wrote: no, as I wrote, we didn't notice when the change happened. (Only the users did :-( ). However, officially afs should support file locking doesn't it? What we can see, is that if the file is on a samba share, then MS-Office opens it only the first

RE: [OpenAFS] AFS file locking doesn't work anymore with ms office xp

2005-03-16 Thread Neulinger, Nathan
MS Office does byte range locking - not full file locking. Byte range locks in afs are no-ops. They are completely ignored. -- Nathan Nathan Neulinger EMail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] University of Missouri - Rolla

[OpenAFS] can not change a backup or readonly volume

2005-03-16 Thread rc647bob
server OS: win2k client OS: rh9 openafs: 1.77 problem: I get the following error message if I try fs mkmount: [EMAIL PROTECTED] vos listvol -server myserver.edu Total number of volumes on server myserver.edu partition /vicepg: 1 myserver-afs 536821022 RW 2 K

Re: [OpenAFS] AFS file locking doesn't work anymore with ms office xp

2005-03-16 Thread Volker Lendecke
On Wed, Mar 16, 2005 at 03:02:36PM +, Chris Crowther wrote: Would translating those into whole-file locks instead be a workable solution? For Samba as an AFS front end I've got a patch that takes another route: Once a file is opened in any way (read or write), I flock the complete file.

Re: [OpenAFS] AFS file locking doesn't work anymore with ms office xp

2005-03-16 Thread Christian Fischer
Chris Crowther wrote: Neulinger, Nathan wrote: MS Office does byte range locking - not full file locking. Byte range locks in afs are no-ops. They are completely ignored. Would translating those into whole-file locks instead be a workable solution? translating into whole-file

Re: [OpenAFS] AFS file locking doesn't work anymore with ms office xp

2005-03-16 Thread Christian Fischer
Volker Lendecke wrote: On Wed, Mar 16, 2005 at 03:02:36PM +, Chris Crowther wrote: Would translating those into whole-file locks instead be a workable solution? For Samba as an AFS front end I've got a patch that takes another route: Once a file is opened in any way (read or

Re: [OpenAFS] AFS file locking doesn't work anymore with ms office xp

2005-03-16 Thread Henrik Goijer
Hi, I'm just new on the list . I'm very interested in OpenAFS but i din't knew much about it. the reason why i join the list. For learning. I was thinking about this problem. (maybe it's a stupid idea or what ever.) And came up with the idea that it would be a nice solution if there was some

RE: [OpenAFS] AFS file locking doesn't work anymore with ms office xp

2005-03-16 Thread Neulinger, Nathan
Please read the list archive and the wiki. There is already a proposal for how to do it, but you cannot just simply convert everything to whole file locks - if you do that, tons of programs on the client side will fail. The client will have to manage all byte-range locks locally, but translate to

Re: [OpenAFS] AFS+RAID

2005-03-16 Thread Jason Young
--On March 7, 2005 1:29:12 PM -0500 Jason Young [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --On March 4, 2005 6:59:44 PM -0500 Derrick J Brashear [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 3 Mar 2005, John L. Capone wrote: Hi, I am doing some research and am trying to determine what was the earliest time

[OpenAFS] Unable to read inode table, vicepa not salvaged

2005-03-16 Thread Ryan Underwood
Hi, After the Linux kernel stupidly killed the fileserver process in a OOM condition, I can't start the fileserver anymore: OpenAFS 1.3.74 built 2004-11-29 03/16/2005 03:01:33 STARTING AFS SALVAGER 2.4 (/usr/lib/openafs/salvager) 03/16/2005 03:01:33 Starting salvage of file system partition

Re: [OpenAFS] AFS file locking doesn't work anymore with ms office xp

2005-03-16 Thread Jeffrey Altman
If someone is willing to pay to have this work done I can try to make time to add this support to the AFS for Windows client. Jeffrey Altman Neulinger, Nathan wrote: Please read the list archive and the wiki. There is already a proposal for how to do it, but you cannot just simply convert

Re: [OpenAFS] AFS+RAID

2005-03-16 Thread chas williams - CONTRACTOR
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED],Jason Young writes: overcome a patent that alleges to be novel and unobvious in claiming a system that includes RAID on AFS...What we are trying to find out is if anyone published an article or spoke about or developed a product that included RAID on AFS prior to 1990.

Re: [OpenAFS] Unable to read inode table, vicepa not salvaged

2005-03-16 Thread Ryan Underwood
Is there any way I can be more helpful? We are 100% down until I figure out how to fix this. On Wed, Mar 16, 2005 at 10:43:54AM -0600, Ryan Underwood wrote: Hi, After the Linux kernel stupidly killed the fileserver process in a OOM condition, I can't start the fileserver anymore:

RE: [OpenAFS] Unable to read inode table, vicepa not salvaged

2005-03-16 Thread Neulinger, Nathan
I know I've seen this before, but I don't remember what caused it. Try stracing salvager, and see what file it's looking for just prior to the error about the inode table. I have a feeling one file is missing. -- Nathan Nathan

Re: [OpenAFS] OpenAFS on Gentoo

2005-03-16 Thread Kevin
On Wed, 2005-03-16 at 12:01 +0100, Stefaan wrote: Hi Kevin, I remember having similar problems, but then I switched off Preemtible Kernel and all suddenly worked well (though there are qsome quircks). It does have some speed impact, but it is less demanding on kernel code. I'm seeing

[OpenAFS] Newbie question

2005-03-16 Thread ed
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello all, I have the following situation, one mail server, which has web, imap, pop, apache services. I need this to be HA. So I picture a number of boxes with the IMAP, HTTP services etc, with a number of boxes which have the datastore, which is

Re: [OpenAFS] ownership of files

2005-03-16 Thread Jeffrey Hutzelman
On Wednesday, March 16, 2005 09:24:23 AM +0100 Rudy Gevaert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I've installed Openafs (with the debian packages) and have it almost fully working. When I'm logged on, and have the afs token the files I make don't have as owner the user who made the file. The group

RE: [OpenAFS] Unable to read inode table, vicepa not salvaged

2005-03-16 Thread Jeffrey Hutzelman
On Wednesday, March 16, 2005 01:34:20 PM -0600 Neulinger, Nathan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I know I've seen this before, but I don't remember what caused it. Try stracing salvager, and see what file it's looking for just prior to the error about the inode table. I have a feeling one file is

Re: [OpenAFS] Unable to read inode table, vicepa not salvaged

2005-03-16 Thread Ryan Underwood
Well, that's interesting. I ran the salvager again under strace, then went out to work on my car. When I came back, the result of a successful salvage was on my screen. I didn't change anything, so I have no idea why the first few tries failed and this one worked. The only difference that I

Re: [OpenAFS] AFS file locking doesn't work anymore with ms office xp

2005-03-16 Thread Christian Fischer
Jeffrey Altman wrote: If someone is willing to pay to have this work done I can try to make time to add this support to the AFS for Windows client. Jeffrey Altman how much?:-) -- Christian Fischer ETH Zürich IT Support Group D-AGRL Schmelzbergstr. 7 / LFV E31 CH-8092 Zürich