[OpenAFS] Newbie: Problems connection to my new cell: /afs: Operation timed out

[Dominik Westner]

Hi Joseph,

yes, all my AFS servers running on 10.0.1.9.
I also have installed an AFS client on this system. Yes, I can access 
/afs from this client. Everything seems fine from there.
Everything is behind a firewall, both the server and the mac os x 
client. They have a direct ethernet connection.
I can access other cells from the mac os x client, with no problem, when 
I change the clients cell to another cell, like andrew.cmu.edu for 
example.
I can't access anything if I set ThisCell to nikwest, even if my 
CellServDB contains other cells.

So my assumption is that there is still something wrong with my server, 
but I don't know how to debug it.

Here is some of the status output I get on the mac os x client;

[icebox:OpenAFS/Tools/bin] dominik% ./fs listcells
Cell andrew.cmu.edu on hosts vice11.fs.andrew.cmu.edu 
vice28.fs.andrew.cmu.edu vice7.fs.andrew.cmu.edu 
vice12.fs.andrew.cmu.edu vice2.fs.andrew.cmu.edu.
...
Cell nikwest on hosts loki.home.nikwest.de.
[icebox:OpenAFS/Tools/bin] dominik%

[icebox:OpenAFS/Tools/bin] dominik% ./bos status loki
bos: no such entry (getting tickets)
bos: running unauthenticated
Instance kaserver, currently running normally.
Instance buserver, currently running normally.
Instance ptserver, currently running normally.
Instance vlserver, currently running normally.
Instance fs, currently running normally.
     Auxiliary status is: file server running.
Instance upserver, currently running normally.

I can login:
[icebox:OpenAFS/Tools/bin] dominik% ./klog -setpag -principal admin

[icebox:OpenAFS/Tools/bin] dominik% ./tokens

Tokens held by the Cache Manager:

User's (AFS ID 1) tokens for afs@nikwest [Expires Apr  3 12:22]
    --End of list--

and on the server:

loki bin # ./vos listvol loki
Total number of volumes on server loki partition /vicepaa: 2
root.afs                          536870912 RW          4 K On-line
root.cell                         536870915 RW          3 K On-line

Total volumes onLine 2 ; Total volumes offLine 0 ; Total busy 0

Total volumes onLine 2 ; Total volumes offLine 0 ; Total busy 0

Nothing seems to be wrong for me ... confusing ...

Dominik

On Tuesday, April 2, 2002, at 01:24 AM, Joseph E Ramus wrote:

> I assume all of your AFS servers are on one system  10.0.1.9
> Do you have an AFS client on that system?
> Can it access  /afs ?
>
> Is all of this behind a Firewall, server and Mac client.
> Can you use the MAC to connect to some other AFS cell?
>
> Dominik Westner wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I followed the quick install instructions to setup a new afs 
>> cell/server
>> on my gentoo linux machine.
>> It seems that everything worked out fine. I have a working root.cell on
>> the linux machine under /afs/nikwest
>>
>> Now I tried to access it from my Mac OS X machine. I set my cell to
>> nikwest (as defined on my server) and edited the CellServDB to include
>> my cell information:
>>> nikwest        #Cell name
>> 10.0.1.9    #loki.home.nikwest.de.
>>
>> Unfortunately when I try to access the /afs directory I get the
>> following message:
>> [icebox:db/openafs/etc] dominik% cd /afs
>> /afs: Operation timed out.
>>
>> I have no idea what the problem is. I can check the status of the
>> server, it also gets listed and I can use klog to log in  as admin, but
>> I can't access the /afs directory.
>>
>> Any help is appreciated.
>>
>> Thanks
>>
>> Dominik
>>
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