[OpenAFS] The status of Windows support...

[Shyh-Wei Luan]

Saving user profile to AFS was one of the few issues we did not spend much
time on in the past.  I will take a look at it in the next few days.

The Windows clients have been working fine for most people. Some may have
experienced some difficulty with Kerberos5 environments. Some documentation
on this topic should go into Wiki.

There has been some off-line discussion on how to make OpenAFS more
integrated in Windows environment and some organization may be stepping
forward to do this with good Windows resources.  This would certainly help.

The Arla/IFS port that KTH people are talking about implementing would make
available an additional choice with optimal performance.  Encouraging!

Shyh-Wei Luan



Original message...

Hello,

I'm having a problem with OpenAFS v1.2.3 Windows client on XP.  Our user
profiles are stored in AFS filespace.  When the users logoff, Windows XP is
unable to save the profiles back to AFS.  This was working with Transarc's
version of AFS.  The error windows returns (rather vague) is...

"DETAIL - The specified server cannot perform the requested operation."

At first, I expected to see that the problem was due to OpenAFS not
supporting Transarc's method LogoffTokenTransferTimeout in "afsd_init.c",
and that the token was disappearing too soon.  But, this appears not to be
the case since OpenAFS's version of "afsd_init.c" also contains the code.

User logon works fine, afsd is able to download the user's profile, but
saving it back seems not to work.  The default value of 10 seconds for
LogoffTokenTransferTimeout should work just fine.

I'm not sure what to do at this point.  Anybody know what the problem may
be?

BTW, I'm using the binary version of OpenAFS right off the site (no
modifications made).

Thanks,

Rodney

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