[OpenAFS] How Do I use machine entries?

[Carsten Tolkmit]

Hi once more ( - sigh - ),


>> >>I have a server (eg. ip 192.168.1.1) that should be granted write access
>> >>  to a given Directory (eg. /afs/.cell.com/var/192.168.1.1) any time. I
>> >>though I could accomplish that by doing:
>> >>
>> >>1.) pts adduser 192.168.1.1 -id 400
>> >>2.) fs sa /afs/.cell.com/var/192.168.1.1 192.168.1.1 write
>> >>3.) fs sa /afs/.cell.com/var 192.168.1.1 rl
>> >>4.) fs sa /afs/.cell.com 192.168.1.1 rl
>> >>
>> >>However this does not seem to work: I can change to var (which has
>> >>system:anyuser l); but not to /afs/.cell.com/var/192.168.1.1 (permission
>> >>denied.).
>> >>
>> >
>> > Put your IP-address user into an AFS group and grant access to that
>>group.
>>
>>
>>ok, I did. It is still not working, more ideas? -> permission denied.
>>
>>Regards,
>>Carsten
>>
> 
> What I did is:
> - pts creategroup testgroup
> - pts createuser ipaddr -id xxx
> - pts adduser ipaddr testgroup
> - fs sa dir testgroup accessrights
> 
> That worked for me.


Ok - I followed exactly these steps except that I keep getting an access 
denied for the directory in question.

Are there any known issues about OpenAFS 1.2.2a? Is there anything that 
I have to do to enable machine entries?

Regards,
Carsten