[OpenAFS] Windows OpenAFS Freelance Registry Entry Issues with 1.5.9903

[Jeffrey Altman]

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On 3/24/2011 5:00 PM, John P Janosik wrote:
> I've run into a problem accessing new cells after installing 1.5.9903. =
I
> would like to know if anyone else has this issue before I dig into it
> any further. Here is what I see:
>=20
> "The system cannot find the file specified" when trying to access a
> drive mapped to the new cell. The afsd_init.log shows the mountpoint fo=
r
> the new cell as "<cell>.ibm.com#<cell>.ibm.com:root.cell..". Notice tha=
t
> there is an extra . at the end of the volume name. The extra dot is
> present in a wireshark trace of the failed volume lookup and in the
> HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\OpenAFS\Client\Freelance entry for the new
> cell.

I will take a look before 1.5.9904 (1.6.0pre4) is issued.


> If I delete an old cell and then try to access it after restarting AFS =
I
> get the same issue. I don't get this behavior if I go back to 1.5.9902.=


Changes to Freelance entries take effect immediately.  There is no need
to stop the service or restart the machine.

fs mkmount,rmmount,lsmount \\afs\<mountpoint> can be used to view and
modify the mount points.

Jeffrey Altman


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