[OpenAFS] Windows Client

[Jeffrey Altman]

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Rodney M Dyer wrote:

> Jeffrey,
>
> At 05:56 PM 12/10/2003, Jeffrey Hartwigsen wrote:
>
>> The client does not start when Windows starts,
>
>
> Check the afsd_init.log in "c:\winnt\afsd_init.log".  See if there are 
> any errors.


The most likely cause is the lack of a network adapter to which there is 
both an
IP address assignment and the NETBIOS interface binding.

>>  I'm guessing from some unknown network error.
>
>
> True.  The MS Loopback adapter can help prevent those types of 
> issues.  See...
>
> http://grand.central.org/twiki/bin/view/AFSLore/WindowsLoopBackAdapter
>
> Be careful with the adapter config.  At our site we had to modify the 
> default settings because of some application licensing issues.

The loopback adapter can only be used on Windows XP and 2003.  It will 
prove to be
ineffective on Windows 2000.

>> Then, of course, if a restricted user logs on, they cannot start the 
>> service manually.
>
>
> True.
>
This should be fixed in the daily builds.  A new location for them is

  /afs/openafs.org/software/openafs/HEAD/<DATE>/binary/winnt

There will be both release and debug versions of the installer provided 
for each date
on which there were changes posted to the CVS. 

The current daily builds reduce the required permission set for access 
to the
Service Control Manager.  It should be possible to configure 
non-Administrators
with a limited set of permissions to do restart the AFS Client Service.  The
AFS Client Service will also return an error value to the Service 
Manager when
it stops due to error.  This should allow for auto-restarts although I 
am not
sure of the policy details for auto-restarting of failed services.

> The AFS service under Windows can be unstable at times.  At our site, 
> we've got watchdog scripts that kick-off through the task scheduler 
> that check to make sure the service is running.
>
The daily builds make things much better.  At least the vast majority of 
the memory
deallocation and handle leakage errors are gone.  There is still much to 
do before
I would really consider any of the windows releases to be stable.

Jeffrey Altman



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