[OpenAFS] Secrets of OpenAFS Server on Win32

[Daniel Rogahn]

I've gotten the afs server to run on Windows 2000 Server, but I haven't been
able to get it working properly with the client, but maybe someone who has
actually /used/ AFS before will have more luck and be able to help me &
others out where I've left off.  I am pretty sure the client is OK, because
I can look at other existing servers.

Symptoms & Fixes:
1) can't find a logfile anywhere in the "program files\afs" directory tree
note: the logfile is there in %windir% as afs*.log (or something...)

    These directories are not created by the installer, nor when the
executables run, thus no logfiles or config files are created.  At least one
of the directories is obviously a misconfig...
these directories are needed in "c:\program files\afs"
"""
Server\@afssrvlibexecdir\
Server@afsbosconfigdir\
Server@afsconfdir\
Server@afsdbdir\
Server@afslocaldir\
Server@afslogsdir\
Server@afssrvlibexecdir\
Server@afssrvsbindir\
"""
Logfiles will now appear in Server@afslogsdir


2) error message about BOS server not starting
3) error message about authentication
    Copy the entire contents of "AFS\Server\bin" to these 3 dirs:
Server\@afssrvlibexecdir\    (yes there is a backslash there)
Server@afssrvlibexecdir\
Server@afssrvsbindir\
I haven't checked exactly which files should be where (because it would be a
waste of time).  In general, its something like: bosserver runs out of
Server@afssrvbindir, the authentication server runs out of
Server\@afssrvlibexecdir, and other servers run out of
Server@afssrvlibexecdir\
I tried changing Server@afsconfdir\bosconfig but it seems to have no
effect!?


After doing all that the wizard will run, but still probably die with
something like "IO error 5" while creating the afs.root volume.  But the
wizard is complete and will not run anymore (unless you do something drastic
like delete the contents of "Server@afsdbdir\")

I was able to salvage afs.root & update the vldb in management (but only by
frobbing around).  Everything seems? to be running.  The client can view
other AFS servers but, when I try using my server I get server not available
errors when accessing the mapped drives.

The only other thing to note is I do have NetBEUI protocol installed.  I
thought I saw a hint on one of the mailing lists it might be required? (but
I don't remember which list, and they _arent_ easy to search).  And I
haven't seen a mention of it in the documentation.

Daniel Rogahn
drogahn@d.umn.edu
http://www.d.umn.edu/~drogahn/