[OpenAFS] Cannot start client on Windows 2000 SP2
Peter J. Nicol
openafs@vrl.com.au
Sun, 5 Jan 2003 15:55:16 +0800
> > Ok, I don't have any 'tokens' and have no mapped drives. Client is
> > asking for a password. Is there any public system I can use to test
> > this stuff out? Do I need a guest or anonymous password?
>
> There's no guest account, but a considerable part of the openafs.org cell
> is world readable, 95% of it in fact. Someone else will need to explain
> how to use the client as a guest but I believe it is possible.
apologies, they have now 'miraculously' turned up. I guess I was just a bit
hasty.
> It's possible with a warm cache to run binaries on a client out of cache
> and not be sad, but if you need to pull some large across at 28.8 you'll
> be sad. It's not really any worse than any other protocol in that sense,
> but in the filesystem case it's perhaps easier to forget the gun is loaded
> and whoops, you didn't need that limb, right?
Derrick, thanx for your help, but I really don't understand the gun analogy. Are
you saying a warm cache is unsafe?