[OpenAFS] New windows problem..

Noel Burton-Krahn noel@burton-krahn.com
Thu, 17 Apr 2003 14:19:42 -0700


Hi James,

I've had similar problems on XP/2k.  Try this:

1. Make sure the computer name contains only [a-z0-9].  No spaces, dashes,
etc.

2. Disable integrated logon:
HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\TransarcAFSDaemon\NetworkProvider\Log
onOptions=0

Let me know if that works for you.

--Noel

----- Original Message -----
From: "James D. Nurmi (afs)" <jnurmi-openafs-info@qwe.cc>
To: <openafs-info@openafs.org>
Sent: Thursday, April 17, 2003 12:22 PM
Subject: [OpenAFS] New windows problem..


> Here's one that I've yet to find documentation on (and if anybody has
> send it my way! :-))
>
> We have an AFS installation on a relatively low-load high-volume (as in
> storage space requirements) deployment...
> 2 file servers
> 1 (seperate) DB server (also running kerberos v5)
>
>
> We have on the order of 30 users (and adding more, but not substantially
> more), and now two of them (relatively simultaniosly) began experiencing
> the same error in the last couple of days.
>
> Both are fairly new XP machines, with sufficient ram, diskspace, etc.
>
> Anyhow, what happens is that when they login, they're merely presented
> with the oh-so fantastic box "AFS not finished starting, retry /
> cancel"  if you cancel, and use the control applet to start and stop it,
> it "appears" (as in the label changes) to start up... any attempt to
> login however, is greeted with
> "AFS service may not be started"
>
> Attached is a 2k afsd_init.log, in which i see nothing terribly out of
> the ordinairy that I see.
>
> If I'm on my desktop, I can auth to either user (given their password),
> and have no issues (other than a changed ACL of course)...
>
> Only other thought, is both of them seem to pop up with the "Offline
> file manager" which seems to be trying to help the system operate in a
> disconnected state....
>
>
> Any help would be much obliged
>
> James Nurmi
>
>


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> 12:26:52 PM: Create log file
> 12:26:52 PM: Created log file
> 12:26:52 PM: osi_InitDebug code 0
> 12:26:52 PM: gethostname econ-010
> 12:26:52 PM: Default LAN adapter number
> 12:26:52 PM: Cache size 204800
> 12:26:52 PM: Default chunk size 15
> 12:26:52 PM: Defaulting to 2 background daemons
> 12:26:52 PM: Defaulting to 4 server threads
> 12:26:52 PM: Default status cache size 1000
> 12:26:52 PM: Logoff token transfer on by default
> 12:26:52 PM: Default logoff token transfer timeout 10 seconds
> 12:26:52 PM: Default root volume name root.afs
> 12:26:52 PM: Default cache path C:\AFSCache
> 12:26:52 PM: Set for stand-alone service
> 12:26:52 PM: Session startups will be recorded in the Event Log
> 12:26:52 PM: Default trace buffer size 5000
> 12:26:52 PM: Default sys name i386_nt40
> 12:26:52 PM: Default SecurityLevel is clear
> 12:26:52 PM: osi_LogCreate log addr 323ec8
> 12:26:52 PM: First Network address 80adada1 SubnetMask fffffc00
> 12:26:52 PM: rx_Init code 0
> 12:26:52 PM: rx_NewService addr 327ac0
> 12:26:52 PM: rx_NewService addr 327ee8
> 12:26:52 PM: rx_StartServer
> 12:26:52 PM: RPC server listening
> 12:26:52 PM: cm_InitDCache code 0
> 12:26:52 PM: cm_InitDNS 0
> 12:26:52 PM: cm_GetRootCellName code 0 rcn econ.vt.edu
> 12:26:52 PM: cm_GetCell addr 992ac8
> 12:26:52 PM: cm_GetVolumeByName code 0 root vol 992bd0
> 12:26:52 PM: cm_GetSCache code 0 scache 32a0e8
> 12:26:52 PM: cm_InitDaemon
> 12:26:52 PM: Netbios NCBRESET lana 0 succeeded
> 12:26:52 PM: Netbios NCBADDNAME lana=0 code=0 retcode=0 complete=0
> 12:26:52 PM: Netbios NCBADDNAME added new name >ECON-010-AFS    <
> 12:26:52 PM: smb_Init
>