Re: [OpenAFS] Changed behaviour (?) in client kernel module.

2014-12-02 Thread Anders Magnusson
Marc Dionne skrev den 2014-12-02 12:33: On Mon, Dec 1, 2014 at 12:37 PM, Anders Magnusson ra...@ltu.se wrote: Some years ago (around 2008) I did setup a SMB to AFS gateway like this (on RedHat): - samba configured to use Kerberos for client auth - when user authenticated, use root preexec

[OpenAFS] Changed behaviour (?) in client kernel module.

2014-12-01 Thread Anders Magnusson
Some years ago (around 2008) I did setup a SMB to AFS gateway like this (on RedHat): - samba configured to use Kerberos for client auth - when user authenticated, use root preexec with kimpersonate to get an AFS token - The token was set to the uid, PAGs were not used. This worked actually

Re: [OpenAFS] Changed behaviour (?) in client kernel module.

2014-12-01 Thread Anders Magnusson
Jonathan Billings skrev den 2014-12-01 17:43: On Mon, Dec 1, 2014 at 11:37 AM, Anders Magnusson ra...@ltu.se mailto:ra...@ltu.se wrote: chdir(/afs/ltu.se/staff/all/ragge http://ltu.se/staff/all/ragge) = -1 EACCES (Permission denied) SELinux? Nope. Do you see any AVC audit entries

Re: [OpenAFS] Changed behaviour (?) in client kernel module.

2014-12-01 Thread Anders Magnusson
D Brashear skrev den 2014-12-01 19:49: On Mon, Dec 1, 2014 at 12:28 PM, Anders Magnusson ra...@ltu.se mailto:ra...@ltu.se wrote: Jonathan Billings skrev den 2014-12-01 17:43: On Mon, Dec 1, 2014 at 11:37 AM, Anders Magnusson ra...@ltu.se mailto:ra...@ltu.se wrote

Re: [OpenAFS] Re: backup strategy

2014-11-25 Thread Anders Magnusson
Mattias Pantzare skrev den 2014-11-25 21:58: On Tue, Nov 25, 2014 at 9:19 PM, Kristen J. Webb kw...@teradactyl.com mailto:kw...@teradactyl.com wrote: I also took a look at the tsmafs module and had a couple technical questions about how it works. 1. What happens when you

Re: [OpenAFS] backup strategy

2014-11-12 Thread Anders Magnusson
Mattias Pantzare skrev den 2014-11-12 19:49: On Wed, Nov 12, 2014 at 11:49 AM, Harald Barth h...@kth.se mailto:h...@kth.se wrote: and with NetWorker, it was (it probably still is) impossible to save from a pipe, requiring the use of temporary disk for the purpose. TSM as

Re: [OpenAFS] Samba aklog

2014-08-08 Thread Anders Magnusson
Craig Huckabee skrev 2014-08-06 17:45: I had a request from a small group locally that needs to access their AFS space(s) via a Windows file share - installing the AFS client on these systems is not an option. So I started looking into doing this via Samba, using a dedicated server

Re: [OpenAFS] openafs OSD

2013-05-29 Thread Anders Magnusson
On 05/29/2013 08:34 AM, Staffan Hämälä wrote: On 2013-05-28 10:09, Harald Barth wrote: I would _not_ involve the HSM module of TSM, as I think it introduces an extra unnecesary level of complexity. It seems easier to use the TSM API and its archive function to get tape storage functionality (as

Re: [OpenAFS] Re: tsmafs utility: rx_Read() returns 0?

2013-04-17 Thread Anders Magnusson
Hi, On 04/17/2013 08:14 AM, Andrew Deason wrote: I suppose my question is: is it normal/ok for rx_Read() to return 0, or is this in itself indicative of a problem or bug somewhere? If the call has an error, we return 0 (and a quick glance at the code, I'm not sure I see any case where we

Re: [OpenAFS] Questions regarding AFS ticket lifetime

2012-04-20 Thread Anders Magnusson
On 04/20/2012 09:35 AM, Lars Schimmer wrote: From memory, during our Windows XP days (different OS, different OpenAFS, different Network Identity Manager, different MIT Kerberos for Windows), just locking and unlocking the computer refreshed the AFS ticket. How has this changed for Windows 7

Re: [OpenAFS] Questions regarding AFS ticket lifetime

2012-04-20 Thread Anders Magnusson
On 04/20/2012 01:30 PM, Lars Schimmer wrote: On 20.04.2012 12:53, Anders Magnusson wrote: On 04/20/2012 09:35 AM, Lars Schimmer wrote: From memory, during our Windows XP days (different OS, different OpenAFS, different Network Identity Manager, different MIT Kerberos for Windows), just

Re: [OpenAFS] Questions regarding AFS ticket lifetime

2012-04-20 Thread Anders Magnusson
.x series. I have no available resources at the moment to implement it and I can't make a commitment as to when I will. At the moment afslogon.dll will obtain a new AFS token at logon, but it will not be renewable. Jeffrey Altman On Friday, April 20, 2012 9:25:13 AM, Anders Magnusson wrote

[OpenAFS] Kerberos for Windows library krb5_32.dll is not available.

2012-02-23 Thread Anders Magnusson
Hi, since 1.7.1 something has happened that causes aklog to complain. Environment: Windows 7 x64 Enterprise OpenAFS 1.7.6 MIT Kerberos for Windows (64-bit) 3.2.2 C:\Users\kexaklog Kerberos for Windows library krb5_32.dll is not available. It did work in 1.7.1. Is this due to

Re: [OpenAFS] Kerberos for Windows library krb5_32.dll is not available.

2012-02-23 Thread Anders Magnusson
) it is there. If you expect a krb5_64.dll: It does not exist. Both, the KfW 32 and 64 bit version does have krb5_32.dll. Mit freundlichen Grüßen Michael Richter Anders Magnusson ra...@ltu.se schrieb am Thu, 23.02.2012 um 12:40: Well, it isn't there, and I assume it should not be there on 64-bit Windows either

[OpenAFS] Time Machine, Lion and AFS

2012-01-18 Thread Anders Magnusson
Hi, just relaying a question here: Anyone got Time Machine to work using Lion and OpenAFS? -- Ragge ___ OpenAFS-info mailing list OpenAFS-info@openafs.org https://lists.openafs.org/mailman/listinfo/openafs-info

[OpenAFS] Windows file locking do not work on IFS client.

2011-09-28 Thread Anders Magnusson
Environment: Server: OpenAFS 1.4.12.1, Redhat 5.3 Client: Windows 7, OpenAFS 1.7.1 It seems that file locking has stopped working in the new client, resulting in data corruption :-/ Simple test case: - Have two Win7 clients - Open a .xlsx document in Office 2010 on one of them. - Open the

Re: [OpenAFS] Windows file locking do not work on IFS client.

2011-09-28 Thread Anders Magnusson
On 09/28/2011 04:20 PM, Jeff Blaine wrote: This would be a bug. Please file bugs to openafs-info@openafs.org. Or ideally openafs-b...@openafs.org Hehe :-) Done! -- Ragge ___ OpenAFS-info mailing list OpenAFS-info@openafs.org

Re: [OpenAFS] Windows client network behaviour

2011-09-22 Thread Anders Magnusson
On 09/21/2011 05:23 PM, Jeffrey Altman wrote: On 9/21/2011 7:09 AM, Anders Magnusson wrote: In the hunt for oddities regarding the new IFS Windows client I have observed a problem causing bad performance, and hopefully someone has some idea about what is going on. Environment: Server

Re: [OpenAFS] Windows client network behaviour

2011-09-22 Thread Anders Magnusson
On 09/22/2011 03:00 PM, Jeffrey Altman wrote: On 9/22/2011 5:08 AM, Anders Magnusson wrote: What I meant here is that the gateway is a Centos 5 machine running Samba and OpenAFS 1.4.10 and store data in AFS. So, writing to the same place in AFS via this machine is significantly faster than

[OpenAFS] Windows client network behaviour

2011-09-21 Thread Anders Magnusson
In the hunt for oddities regarding the new IFS Windows client I have observed a problem causing bad performance, and hopefully someone has some idea about what is going on. Environment: Server: OpenAFS 1.4.12.1, CentOS 5.3 Client: Windows 7, OpenAFS 1.7.1 The test case is to write an ISO

Re: [OpenAFS] Windows client network behaviour

2011-09-21 Thread Anders Magnusson
On 09/21/2011 02:56 PM, Lars Schimmer wrote: On 2011-09-21 13:09, Anders Magnusson wrote: In the hunt for oddities regarding the new IFS Windows client I have observed a problem causing bad performance, and hopefully someone has some idea about what is going on. Environment: Server: OpenAFS

Re: [OpenAFS] AFS version of sudo for admin ?

2010-12-17 Thread Anders Magnusson
John Tang Boyland wrote: Does anyone know of a sudo like command for AFS admin commands? admindo vos release pkg.foo It would be nice, but not essential to have the token stick around for 5 minutes in case you need to do another admindo soon afterwards. Make a simple script

Re: [OpenAFS] Re: AFS version of sudo for admin ?

2010-12-17 Thread Anders Magnusson
Andrew Deason wrote: On Fri, 17 Dec 2010 15:59:31 +0100 Anders Magnusson ra...@ltu.se wrote: John Tang Boyland wrote: Does anyone know of a sudo like command for AFS admin commands? admindo vos release pkg.foo It would be nice, but not essential to have the token stick around

Re: [OpenAFS] add partitions witout restarting afs fileserver

2010-11-08 Thread Anders Magnusson
There is another way; have a number of unused /vicepx available and have an AlwaysAttach in them. When you want to add more disk you just mount it on one of the unused /vicepx :-) -- Ragge Assarsson, Emil wrote: Thank you for your fast response :-) I use lvm2 for the file systems and I were

Re: [OpenAFS] bos killed fileserver before it was shut down cleanly.

2010-10-10 Thread Anders Magnusson
I was probably a little bit too tired yesterday when I couldn't see the difference between 9 and 11, as other pointed out :-( Anyway, the annoying thing with fileserver getting terminated hard while still offlining volumes is a problem. A simple way to fix it would be to have a pipe between

[OpenAFS] Windows client complaints.

2010-10-07 Thread Anders Magnusson
We have a few (sometimes heavy loaded) WTS machines that have started to get annoying warnings in the application log after we upgraded client from 1.5.64 to 1.5.77. Each 5 seconds it gets lines like this in the application log: Server 130.240.42.222 reported volume 538176929 as temporarily

Re: [OpenAFS] Windows client complaints.

2010-10-07 Thread Anders Magnusson
Hi Jeffrey, Jeffrey Altman wrote: On 10/7/2010 5:20 AM, Anders Magnusson wrote: We have a few (sometimes heavy loaded) WTS machines that have started to get annoying warnings in the application log after we upgraded client from 1.5.64 to 1.5.77. Each 5 seconds it gets lines like

Re: [OpenAFS] Testing OpenAFS with Windows XP Roaming Profiles....

2010-09-17 Thread Anders Magnusson
On 09/17/2010 05:06 PM, Claudio Prono wrote: Now, the question is: how i can make Windows first write the updated profile, then drop tickets? The ACL system:anyuser all for the profile folder is not a good solution... Any hint? The afslogon.dll has special code in it that has to

Re: [OpenAFS] Windows client: Mount points must be created within the AFS file system.

2010-07-01 Thread Anders Magnusson
then using the set-location command to change she execution location to the unc path. Somehow that didn't solve the problem in another script. /anders hannus -Original Message- From: openafs-info-ad...@openafs.org [mailto:openafs-info-ad...@openafs.org] On Behalf Of Anders Magnusson Sent: den

[OpenAFS] Windows client: Mount points must be created within the AFS file system.

2010-06-18 Thread Anders Magnusson
Hi, we'we discovered a small bug related to mount points which has appeared in some recent windows client. Testing with 1.5.74; mount points cannot be created neither from the explorer shell nor from the command prompt if referring to an UNC path. This worked with older clients (like

Re: [OpenAFS] Windows client: Mount points must be created within the AFS file system.

2010-06-18 Thread Anders Magnusson
Jeffrey Altman wrote: On 6/18/2010 4:26 AM, Anders Magnusson wrote: Hi, we'we discovered a small bug related to mount points which has appeared in some recent windows client. Testing with 1.5.74; mount points cannot be created neither from the explorer shell nor from the command prompt

[OpenAFS] Expanding/shrinking vice partitions

2010-03-31 Thread Anders Magnusson
Hi, I'm wondering if it may have any negative side effects if I change the size of a vice partition while the file server is running? For example when adding a new disk and then just expand a vice partition via lvm. Also, I noticed that if I move away all volumes from a partition, then it

Re: [OpenAFS] Re: Cron Jobs for Regular Users

2010-01-29 Thread Anders Magnusson
Andrew Deason wrote: could protect the directory where the keytabs are under an IP ACL, but IP ACLs don't always work so well, and you'd open up access to anyone When do IP ACLs not work so well? -- Ragge ___ OpenAFS-info mailing list

Re: [OpenAFS] New Cell setup - ideas?

2010-01-27 Thread Anders Magnusson
Lars Schimmer wrote: Right now I see the limit of 20 groups per ACL in a directory as a problem - but thats a point we could work araound, somehow. You should use as few ACL entries as possible and instead put users/groups in groups on the directories. IMHO something is setup wrong if you

Re: [OpenAFS] Current OpenAFS Backup Recommendations

2009-12-18 Thread Anders Magnusson
Harald Barth wrote: What open source commercial backup solutions are a) aware of OpenAFS b) can handle autoloaders well I don't think that solution exists out of the box. The only commercial product I know of is from teradactyl and that fell for our needs because of prize and tape

[OpenAFS] Strange windows client error

2009-12-18 Thread Anders Magnusson
We have gotten a really strange problem on a bunch of our WinXP computers, and I really cannot find out what the problem is. When an user logs in, after ~10 seconds after pressing enter in the login window, a popup window says Integrated login failed: Authentication Server was unavailable

Re: [OpenAFS] Windows client error.

2009-12-03 Thread Anders Magnusson
wrote: 19270401 = Packet too short for security challenge by any chance is there a firewall or router in the path that blocks udp fragments? Anders Magnusson wrote: Time is correct (always checked first :-) The log output doesn't tell me anything, but maybe someone else: /afs/ltu.se

Re: [OpenAFS] Windows client error.

2009-12-02 Thread Anders Magnusson
. * fs trace -on -reset * dir \\afs\ltu.se * fs trace -dump -off * examine contents of %windir%\temp\afsd.log Jeffrey Altman Anders Magnusson wrote: We have one XP SP3 machine that has a really strange problem. Tickets and tokens are no problem, but trying to access \\afs\ltu.se

[OpenAFS] Windows client error.

2009-12-01 Thread Anders Magnusson
We have one XP SP3 machine that has a really strange problem. Tickets and tokens are no problem, but trying to access \\afs\ltu.se in the explorer shell says permission denied. Doing it from the cmd prompt says: C:\Documents and Settings\johancdir \\afs\ltu.se SEC_E_NO_KERB_KEY C:\Documents

[OpenAFS] Windows client cannot delete file.

2009-11-23 Thread Anders Magnusson
Hi, one of our users encountered a really strange problem: a specific file could not be deleted from windows. No problem to copy or move the file, but delete or writing to the file do not work. Note that copies of the file can be deleted, but not the file itself. Also, no problem to do

Re: [OpenAFS] Windows client cannot delete file.

2009-11-23 Thread Anders Magnusson
Jeffrey Altman wrote: Anders Magnusson wrote: Hi, one of our users encountered a really strange problem: a specific file could not be deleted from windows. No problem to copy or move the file, but delete or writing to the file do not work. Note that copies of the file can be deleted

Re: [OpenAFS] Windows 1.5.66 and CellServDB issue.

2009-11-07 Thread Anders Magnusson
We've seen this also; and since ltu.se is not in CellServDB the 1.5.66 client do not work (1.5.65 does). Can it have something to do with this change? * Promote DNS SRV records as superior to DNS AFSDB records. Support arbitrary port numbers for vldb servers. We do not have any SRV

[OpenAFS] Explorer display in windows client

2009-11-06 Thread Anders Magnusson
Just a question; in the explorer window, if an AFS path is mapped as a letter, the Total Size and Free Space information is something completely different from the underlying volume sizes. Are there any special reasons for this or is it just not implemented? -- Ragge

Re: [OpenAFS] Strange kernel messages from yesterday...

2009-11-02 Thread Anders Magnusson
Harald Barth wrote: Ext3 works too (server or client), but slower. Hm, is ext3 slower if used on server? In that case, anyone checked why? -- Ragge ___ OpenAFS-info mailing list OpenAFS-info@openafs.org

Re: [OpenAFS] Strange kernel messages from yesterday...

2009-11-02 Thread Anders Magnusson
Anders Magnusson wrote: Harald Barth wrote: Ext3 works too (server or client), but slower. Hm, is ext3 slower if used on server? In that case, anyone checked why? Compared to ext2 I mean. Or var your mail just difficult to parse? :-) -- Ragge

Re: [OpenAFS] Limit of clones

2009-11-02 Thread Anders Magnusson
Steve Simmons wrote: On Oct 31, 2009, at 3:42 PM, Derrick Brashear wrote: On Sat, Oct 31, 2009 at 11:08 AM, Anders Magnusson ra...@ltu.se wrote: The manpage for vos clone says there are a maximum of 7 clones using the namei fileserver. What is the reason for this limitation

[OpenAFS] Limit of clones

2009-10-31 Thread Anders Magnusson
The manpage for vos clone says there are a maximum of 7 clones using the namei fileserver. What is the reason for this limitation? -- Ragge ___ OpenAFS-info mailing list OpenAFS-info@openafs.org https://lists.openafs.org/mailman/listinfo/openafs-info

Re: [OpenAFS] The removal of afscreds.exe and afs_config.exe on Windows Vista and Windows 7: Seeking Opinions

2009-10-20 Thread Anders Magnusson
Wow, great! Good job, wonderful! Now it will be really usable as a first step when giving support. Great work! Really! -- Ragge Jeffrey Altman wrote: Asanka Herath has implemented the desired functionality for the OpenAFS Network Identity Manager credential provider. Starting with the next

Re: [OpenAFS] Crash in volserver when restoring volume from backup.

2009-10-16 Thread Anders Magnusson
Derrick Brashear wrote: looks like you already lost by the time it crashes. Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault. [Switching to Thread 0x4aafd940 (LWP 30735)] 0x003c13078d60 in strlen () from /lib64/libc.so.6 (gdb) bt #0 0x003c13078d60 in strlen () from

Re: [OpenAFS] The removal of afscreds.exe and afs_config.exe on Windows Vista and Windows 7: Seeking Opinions

2009-10-14 Thread Anders Magnusson
Jeffrey Altman wrote: For Ragge I'm wondering if the benefit he is seeking is that of the AFS centric identity or the fact that the lock is easier to describe than the NetIdMgr cube which either contains an identity, an expired identity, or none at all. Exactly. It's much easier to ask

Re: [OpenAFS] The removal of afscreds.exe and afs_config.exe on Windows Vista and Windows 7: Seeking Opinions

2009-10-14 Thread Anders Magnusson
Jeffrey Altman wrote: Anders Magnusson wrote: Jeffrey Altman wrote: For Ragge I'm wondering if the benefit he is seeking is that of the AFS centric identity or the fact that the lock is easier to describe than the NetIdMgr cube which either contains an identity, an expired identity

Re: [OpenAFS] The removal of afscreds.exe and afs_config.exe on Windows Vista and Windows 7: Seeking Opinions

2009-10-08 Thread Anders Magnusson
No opinions about the stuff below, but from a support perspective it is really nice with the padlock down right. When people have trouble with file accesses the two questions: - Do you have a padlock down right? - Is there a red cross over the padlock? are quite valuable. -- Ragge Jeffrey

[OpenAFS] Windows client spraying file server.

2009-10-05 Thread Anders Magnusson
We just noticed a quite disturbing event on some windows clients; they are sending packets continuously to a fileserver, causing the fileserver process to take 100% CPU. And more annoying, noone is logged in to the machines when they do so. afsd_service works, but cannot be restarted and have

Re: [OpenAFS] Windows client spraying file server.

2009-10-05 Thread Anders Magnusson
see it :-) Obviously there are many paths where over quota checks are needen. -- Ragge Jeffrey Altman Anders Magnusson wrote: We just noticed a quite disturbing event on some windows clients; they are sending packets continuously to a fileserver, causing the fileserver process to take

[OpenAFS] Crash in volserver when restoring volume from backup.

2009-08-26 Thread Anders Magnusson
Hi, I have a problem that I need some advice on how to go on with. I have a volume dump file, but when trying to read it back volserver crashes. The dump was generated under 1.4.8, and the volserver segv appears with both 1.4.8 and 1.4.11. VolserLog.old says: Wed Aug 26 14:56:34 2009

Re: [OpenAFS] Crash in volserver when restoring volume from backup.

2009-08-26 Thread Anders Magnusson
Hartmut Reuter wrote: Anders Magnusson wrote: Hi, I have a problem that I need some advice on how to go on with. I have a volume dump file, but when trying to read it back volserver crashes. The dump was generated under 1.4.8, and the volserver segv appears with both 1.4.8 and 1.4.11

Re: [OpenAFS] Crash in volserver when restoring volume from backup.

2009-08-26 Thread Anders Magnusson
Derrick Brashear wrote: looks like you already lost by the time it crashes. Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault. [Switching to Thread 0x4aafd940 (LWP 30735)] 0x003c13078d60 in strlen () from /lib64/libc.so.6 (gdb) bt #0 0x003c13078d60 in strlen () from

Re: [OpenAFS] Windows MMC testers wanted

2009-08-22 Thread Anders Magnusson
Good morning, I just tried it on W2k3 SP2 (32-bit) /w OpenAFS client 1.5.61. Some directly noticed things: - When I click at General/Manage AFS Client administrators group nothing happens - Under the CIFS submenu all fields are empty, are they supposed to? - Under Performance also all fields

[OpenAFS] Strange problem with Windows client.

2009-08-06 Thread Anders Magnusson
Hi, we have encountered a really strange problem when creating images for reinstallation of our Windows XP machines in out computer labs. All machines has mandatory profiles located on AFS. The problem is that when logging in to a newly installed machine it will try to fetch the profile and

Re: [OpenAFS] Tokens and screen under linux

2009-07-06 Thread Anders Magnusson
Lars Schimmer wrote: Hi! One of our users try to run a job longer than usual tokens runtime. Keeping a ssh open for that long time is not wanted. We use a Win 2003 AD server as a krb5 KDC and krenew just hits krenew: error renewing credentials: KDC can't fulfill requested option. And if I

[OpenAFS] TSM backup client

2009-06-05 Thread Anders Magnusson
So, at last the TSM client I have written is available. It can be fetched from /afs/ltu.se/misc/tsmafs/tsmafs-0.1.tgz for anyone that is interested. Simple overview: The backup client works by talking directly to the file server(s) and fetch files out of afs, and then put them into tsm as

Re: [OpenAFS] Volume replication

2009-05-07 Thread Anders Magnusson
Jean Praloran wrote: I performed an fs examine, because fs lq is for quota. Here is the output : root.cell : afs-2 /afs/epitech.net http://epitech.net # fs examine File . (536870916.1.1) contained in volume 536870916 Volume status for vid = 536870916 named root.cell.readonly Current disk

[OpenAFS] Strange behavior with Windows client.

2009-04-24 Thread Anders Magnusson
Environment: - Laptop, Windows XP SP3 32-bit, domain member. - OpenAFS client 1.5.59 - Heimdal Kerberos server with trust to the AD domain. If I connect the computer to a network somewhere, and logs in with cached credentials, there is no way to talk to the AFS client; it just gives a strange

Re: [OpenAFS] Strange behavior with Windows client.

2009-04-24 Thread Anders Magnusson
Quick answer, great, thanks! Is there a FAQ somewhere with all these types of answers collected? I haven't been able to find one. -- Ragge Jeffrey Altman wrote: See http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx/kb/916204 Anders Magnusson wrote: Environment: - Laptop, Windows XP SP3 32-bit

Re: [OpenAFS] TSM client for OpenAFS

2009-04-05 Thread Anders Magnusson
Kristen J. Webb wrote: Mattias Pantzare wrote: Of course, but it will still take up much more space. If we do full dump once a week and incs each night there will be many duplicates of files changed early after the full dump :-) Do I correctly infer that you don't need a full backup as

Re: [OpenAFS] TSM client for OpenAFS

2009-04-03 Thread Anders Magnusson
Felix Frank wrote: On Thu, 2 Apr 2009, Anders Magnusson wrote: Harald Barth wrote: Why is the space bigger? Don't you do incremental dumps? Of course, but it will still take up much more space. If we do full dump once a week and incs each night there will be many duplicates of files

[OpenAFS] TSM client for OpenAFS

2009-04-02 Thread Anders Magnusson
Hi, we are currently deploying OpenAFS here at the university and also are stuck with TSM for backups. Currently there doesn't seems to exist any good AFS backup client for TSM, and just storing volume dumps is not too appealing, both due to backup storage space and simpleness in restoring

Re: [OpenAFS] TSM client for OpenAFS

2009-04-02 Thread Anders Magnusson
Harald Barth wrote: we are currently deploying OpenAFS here at the university and also are stuck with TSM for backups. There could be worse things. PDC uses TSM and we use homwgrown logic to do full and incremental dumps. These then are piped into a program that uses the API. The

Re: [OpenAFS] afs: failed to store file (5)

2009-03-31 Thread Anders Magnusson
Harald Barth wrote: afs: failed to store file (5) now and then. This patch is currently the best guess: # cat STABLE14-rx-idledead-only-ignore-keepalives-20081222.patch --- src/rx/rx.c.orig2008-09-25 19:26:47.0 +0200 +++ src/rx/rx.c 2009-03-12 18:01:22.0 +0100 @@

[OpenAFS] afs: failed to store file (5)

2009-03-30 Thread Anders Magnusson
Hi, on one of our machines we tend to get the message afs: failed to store file (5) now and then. It sounds a little worrying :-/ The machines runs RHEL4.7 and OpenAFS 1.4.8. If 5 in the error message is errno then it means EIO. There are lots of file accesses to the machine so I have no idea

[OpenAFS] Implementation questions.

2009-03-27 Thread Anders Magnusson
Hi, I have some questions about how a few internal things in afs works. I think I have found out how it works, just want to sanitycheck :-) I want to check if a file has changed. The elements to check are: Vnode and Unique in AFSFid DataVersion and dataVersionHigh in AFSFetchStatus If

Re: [OpenAFS] fileserver goes down overnight

2009-03-24 Thread Anders Magnusson
david l goodrich wrote: On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 10:39:24AM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: david l goodrich d...@dsrw.org writes: The past two nights, I've had one of my AFS fileserver go down I say down and not down because it's not totally nonfunctional. It thinks it's running fine:

Re: [OpenAFS] fileserver goes down overnight

2009-03-24 Thread Anders Magnusson
david l goodrich wrote: On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 02:27:35PM -0400, Steven Jenkins wrote: On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 2:13 PM, david l goodrich d...@dsrw.org wrote: ... sprawl# ps auxw | grep /openafs/ root ? 376 ?0.0 ?0.0 2316 ? ? 4 ? ? ? ? DW ? ?5:33PM 0:00.83

Re: [OpenAFS] Re: smbclient for AFS?

2009-03-10 Thread Anders Magnusson
Andrew Deason wrote: On Sat, 28 Feb 2009 17:44:12 +0100 Anders Magnusson ra...@ltu.se wrote: Hi, quick question before I go deeper into it: Does it exist something similar to smbclient for AFS? For those who don't know; it's like an ftp client but for smb. I want something that do

[OpenAFS] Windows client stop working after changing network adapters.

2009-02-25 Thread Anders Magnusson
Hi, I got a report of this strange problem with the Windows client on a laptop. Client is 1.5.57, laptop is XP SP2: Logging in via VPN to the wireless network - AFS works fine. Disconnect VPN, use wireless network directly (AFS is allowed) - AFS stop working. Reconnecting via VPN does not

[OpenAFS] Longer volume names than 22 characters.

2009-02-24 Thread Anders Magnusson
I took a quick look in the source code, and found that there are two interesting defines (in volser.h): #define VOLSER_MAXVOLNAME 65 #define VOLSER_OLDMAXVOLNAME 32 So, obviously someone has thought about allowing longer names, but the checks seems to be against the old name length so it

Re: [OpenAFS] Longer volume names than 22 characters.

2009-02-24 Thread Anders Magnusson
Derrick Brashear wrote: On Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 4:58 AM, Anders Magnusson ra...@ltu.se wrote: I took a quick look in the source code, and found that there are two interesting defines (in volser.h): #define VOLSER_MAXVOLNAME 65 #define VOLSER_OLDMAXVOLNAME 32 So, obviously someone has

[OpenAFS] Volume space lost in space.

2009-02-01 Thread Anders Magnusson
We have encountered a strange error here on a volume. vos examine (or fs lq) says that it is 15G in size, but du can only find 4G in the volume. salvager do not find anything wrong with the volume. Any hints? The fileserver runs 1.4.5 (on RHEL4). Reading the RELNOTES for the later

Re: [OpenAFS] Volume space lost in space.

2009-02-01 Thread Anders Magnusson
Harald Barth wrote: We have encountered a strange error here on a volume. vos examine (or fs lq) says that it is 15G in size, but du can only find 4G in the volume. salvager do not find anything wrong with the volume. Have you told it to reattach orphan files during salvage? No, I

Re: [OpenAFS] Integrated logon and locking/unlocking workstatations

2008-10-30 Thread Anders Magnusson
Jeffrey Altman wrote: Douglas E. Engert wrote: Jeff, The netmgr can import tickets from MSLSA, but only appears to do this at login or when the import credentials is selected. Could it do this on a periodic bases to check if the MSLA TGT might have been updated by a screen unlock? Or

[OpenAFS] Windows AFS client refuses to start.

2008-08-28 Thread Anders Magnusson
Hi, we have entered a state on the computers in a newly installed WinXP lab where the afs daemon won't start, and I do not really understand what is the problem. I have attached the afsd_init.log file, someone (Jeffrey? :-) may understand the magics written in it. -- Ragge 14:20:30:

Re: [OpenAFS] Windows AFS client refuses to start.

2008-08-28 Thread Anders Magnusson
Jeffrey Altman wrote: 2008-08-28 14:20:40: Error mapping view of file: 8 2008-08-28 14:20:40: cm_InitMappedMemory code 66543208 ERROR_NOT_ENOUGH_MEMORY winerror.h # Not enough storage is available to process this command. The size of the cache file is

Re: [OpenAFS] Weird filenames with Visual Studio 2003 and OpenAFS 1.5.5[12]

2008-08-20 Thread Anders Magnusson
Charles Karney wrote: I recently upgraded my Windows XP machine from OpenAFS 1.5.32 to 1.5.51 and then to 1.5.52. With both versions, 1.5.5x, when I do compilations under Visual Studio 2003, I get error messages of the form: Compiling... cl : Command line error D2022 : cannot open

[OpenAFS] Problem with mandatory profiles on AFS.

2008-08-19 Thread Anders Magnusson
Hi, first environment: AFS servers running 1.4.5, Windows clients 1.5.36. The problem is that when exporting mandatory profiles it usually works fine, but on some profiles it just hangs. Looking at the task manager shows that both CPU and network traffic stops, and after a while an error

Re: [OpenAFS] Problem with mandatory profiles on AFS.

2008-08-19 Thread Anders Magnusson
Christof Hanke wrote: On Tuesday 19 August 2008 11:52:02 Anders Magnusson wrote: Hi, first environment: AFS servers running 1.4.5, Windows clients 1.5.36. The problem is that when exporting mandatory profiles it usually works fine, but on some profiles it just hangs. Looking at the task

Re: [OpenAFS] Problem with mandatory profiles on AFS.

2008-08-19 Thread Anders Magnusson
Jeffrey Altman wrote: Debugging techniques are described in the Release Notes. Yes, I've read them, but I didn't really understand how to parse all information that I could get out from the system :-) If the client comes to a complete halt it is likely a deadlock. A number of deadlocks

[OpenAFS] Re: [OpenAFS-announce] OpenAFS 1.5.51 released (Production Version for Windows including UNICODE; Test Version for other platforms)

2008-07-29 Thread Anders Magnusson
Jeffrey Altman wrote: [...] * Large File support is disabled. (Bug introduced in 1.5.50) Hm, what does this mean in reality? -- Ragge ___ OpenAFS-info mailing list OpenAFS-info@openafs.org https://lists.openafs.org/mailman/listinfo/openafs-info

[OpenAFS] changing uid on anonymous.

2008-06-12 Thread Anders Magnusson
Hi, I want to change uid on the anonymous user to something else than 32766, but I can't figure out how :-) Just deleting the anonymous user and recreating it do not work; # pts delete anonymous pts: User or group doesn't exist so couldn't look up id for anonymous # pts listentries -users |

Re: [OpenAFS] changing uid on anonymous.

2008-06-12 Thread Anders Magnusson
Jeffrey Altman skrev: Anders Magnusson wrote: Hi, I want to change uid on the anonymous user to something else than 32766, but I can't figure out how :-) Just deleting the anonymous user and recreating it do not work; # pts delete anonymous pts: User or group doesn't exist so couldn't look

[OpenAFS] Strange message when connecting a Windows Mobile phone.

2008-04-10 Thread Anders Magnusson
We've seen a strange window that popups when connecting a Windows Mobile phone (via USB) to a XP workstation with the AFS client installed. It says: KTC_NCOM: The service, Transarc AFS Daemon, most likely is not started! (0xb50307) (ktc_GetToken()failed) (modulo typing errors, written down

Re: [OpenAFS] Strange message when connecting a Windows Mobile phone.

2008-04-10 Thread Anders Magnusson
Jeffrey Altman wrote: I assume you are still using the afscreds.exe tool and that is where the error is coming from. Switch to Network Identity Manager and you won't see the error. Hm, we have the Identity Manager installed, but you mean that the Prevent AFSCreds.exe from starting... should

[OpenAFS] groups in groups, ptsviewers etc...

2008-03-18 Thread Anders Magnusson
Hi, a few questions for which I don't seem able to find docs :-) It seems like it is possible to recompile 1.4.6 with an option to get the possibility to put groups in groups. - Is this feature considered stable for production use? - Will it allow for multiple levels of groups in groups? - Is

Re: [OpenAFS] groups in groups, ptsviewers etc...

2008-03-18 Thread Anders Magnusson
Great, exactly what I was wondering about! Many thanks for your quick answer! -- Ragge Marcus Watts wrote: Anders Magnusson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Date:Tue, 18 Mar 2008 10:26:26 BST To: openafs-info@openafs.org From:Anders Magnusson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [OpenAFS

Re: [OpenAFS] groups in groups, ptsviewers etc...

2008-03-18 Thread Anders Magnusson
Marcus Watts wrote: Also, for people to be able to see what's in the protection database, they must obviously be members of the (undocumented?) ptsviewers group. Is it safe just to add all people to this group or are there other implications of doing so? Depends on if you ever want

Re: [OpenAFS] groups in groups, ptsviewers etc...

2008-03-18 Thread Anders Magnusson
Christopher D. Clausen skrev: % pts listentries -groups seems to require that the user belongs to system:administrators. I don't think you realize just how many groups there are in some cells. Enumerating all of them is not useful in many cases. Most users are probably fine just

Re: [OpenAFS] OpenAFS on windows - profile in AFS, who uses it?

2008-02-08 Thread Anders Magnusson
Lars Schimmer wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 HI! Just out of interest: which site (beside our cell) is using OpenAFS as filestore for Windows Profile and customers working on this? We are still in test phase here, but it seems to work pretty well on both laptops and

[OpenAFS] Using TSM with AFS.

2008-02-01 Thread Anders Magnusson
As I have understood it, AFS support in TSM were dropped some years ago (the AFS client were only available for AIX anyway?). So the people now using TSM seems to do stuff like vos dump and store the dumps in TSM. But; we would like to do real volume backups in TSM and store generations of

Re: [OpenAFS] Strange group behaviour.

2008-01-25 Thread Anders Magnusson
Frank Burkhardt wrote: Hi, On Fri, Jan 25, 2008 at 11:01:52AM +0100, Anders Magnusson wrote: Hi, I have just encountered a non-working behavior of group membership, and I cannot see what I'm doing wrong. Environment: Redhat, OpenAFS 1.4.5 on both server and client. I have an user

[OpenAFS] Strange group behaviour.

2008-01-25 Thread Anders Magnusson
Hi, I have just encountered a non-working behavior of group membership, and I cannot see what I'm doing wrong. Environment: Redhat, OpenAFS 1.4.5 on both server and client. I have an user: % pts examine afs-backup Name: afs-backup, id: 99942, owner: system:administrators, creator:

Re: [OpenAFS] Find(1) behavior

2008-01-25 Thread Anders Magnusson
Frank Burkhardt wrote: Hi, On Fri, Jan 25, 2008 at 12:39:18PM +0100, Anders Magnusson wrote: Hi, I'll continue to spam the list with other odd things that I notice :-) Environment: Redhat 4.3, OpenAFS 1.4.5 on both server and client. find does not seems to cross AFS mountpoint boundaries

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