[OpenAFS] OpenAFS + Linux +XP
Rodney M Dyer
rmdyer@uncc.edu
Thu, 22 Jan 2004 13:19:59 -0500
At 01:00 PM 1/22/2004, Jeffrey Altman wrote:
>Rodney uses a modified version of the integrated login which performs the
>kinit and aklogsteps in an external process instead of relying on the k4
>support built into OpenAFS. More than likely he is bypassing the cause of
>the blue screen.
You are correct. We do use a minimally altered version of the AFS logon
authenticator "afslogon.dll" that we compile
ourselves. See...http://www.coe.uncc.edu/~rmdyer/afslogonshell.htm
The "altered" part is simply a single line of code addition for exec'ing a
shell. But, we've only been using this method since we moved to
OpenAFS...since of course, I didn't have the source for Transarc's version
and other reasons.
But laughing, I would be surprised if anything I do "prevents" a blue
screen for us! The normal "unmodified" AFS logon authenticator has never
failed on me. I may be wrong, my memory is poor these days. The code in
the OpenAFS authenticator DLL is pretty generic, I doubt there's anything
there that would cause a blue screen as none of it runs in the kernel.
Rodney