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

[Dominik Westner]

Hi all,

well I had the feeling that this was a stupid problem ... (but that are 
the ones which are hard to find).

There was an afsd.options config file under /var/db/openafs/etc/config 
(kinda hard to find ...), which wasn't correct. I just commented out the 
option, but this wasn't correct.
Don't ask me why it worked with the other cells and not for mine. After 
removing the options file everything worked as expected.

Thanks for all your help

Dominik

On Wednesday, April 3, 2002, at 01:31 AM, Derek Atkins wrote:

> If your Mac works with ThisCell set to something else, and your
> Linux server works with ThisCell set to itself, then that implies
> that your Mac cannot talk to your Linux server.
>
> Make sure you don't have any iptables set on your Linux box that
> might be blocking AFS...
>
> -derek
>
> Dominik Westner <lists@logicunited.com> writes:
>
>> Hi Derek,
>>
>> I don't have any firewall on the machine, a separate linux based
>> router is doing the firewalling.
>> It's a direct ethernet connection, with all ports accessible.
>>
>> The ip does resolve. Here is my output from dig on the client:
>>
>> [icebox:~nic/Public/Drop Box] dominik% dig loki.home.nikwest.de
>>
>> ; <<>> DiG 8.3 <<>> loki.home.nikwest.de
>> ;; res options: init recurs defnam dnsrch
>> ;; got answer:
>> ;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 4
>> ;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 1, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 0
>> ;; QUERY SECTION:
>> ;;      loki.home.nikwest.de, type = A, class = IN
>>
>> ;; ANSWER SECTION:
>> loki.home.nikwest.de.   9h40m26s IN A   10.0.1.9
>>
>> ;; Total query time: 5 msec
>> ;; FROM: icebox.home.nikwest.de to SERVER: default -- 10.0.1.9
>> ;; WHEN: Wed Apr  3 01:14:45 2002
>> ;; MSG SIZE  sent: 38  rcvd: 54
>>
>>
>> Dominik
>>
>> On Tuesday, April 2, 2002, at 06:23 PM, Derek Atkins wrote:
>>
>>> And it resolves to 10.0.1.9?
>>>
>>> Do you by any chance have a "personal firewall" setup on your AFS
>>> Server?
>>>
>>> -derek
>>>
>>> Dominik Westner <lists@logicunited.com> writes:
>>>
>>>> Hi Derek,
>>>>
>>>> loki.home.nikwest.de is defined in my private DNS server, which is 
>>>> not
>>>> accessible from the internet (as 10.0.1.9 is not a valid ip for the
>>>> internet)
>>>>
>>>> in my intranet loki.home.nikwest.de can be resolved by all clients.
>>>>
>>>> Dominik
>>>>
>>>> On Dienstag, April 2, 2002, at 05:57 PM, Derek Atkins wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> I can't resolve loki.home.nikwest.de; do you have that in your
>>>>> /etc/hosts.conf (or MacOS equivalent)?
>>>>>
>>>>> -derek
>>>>>
>>>>> Dominik Westner <westner@logicunited.com> writes:
>>>>>
>>>>>> 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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>>>>>
>>>>> --
>>>>>        Derek Atkins, SB '93 MIT EE, SM '95 MIT Media Laboratory
>>>>>        Member, MIT Student Information Processing Board  (SIPB)
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>>>
>>> --
>>>        Derek Atkins, SB '93 MIT EE, SM '95 MIT Media Laboratory
>>>        Member, MIT Student Information Processing Board  (SIPB)
>>>        URL: http://web.mit.edu/warlord/    PP-ASEL-IA     N1NWH
>>>        warlord@MIT.EDU                        PGP key available
>>
>
> --
>        Derek Atkins, SB '93 MIT EE, SM '95 MIT Media Laboratory
>        Member, MIT Student Information Processing Board  (SIPB)
>        URL: http://web.mit.edu/warlord/    PP-ASEL-IA     N1NWH
>        warlord@MIT.EDU                        PGP key available