[OpenAFS] Read-write cell root not working on Windows XP

[Jeffrey Altman]

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Rodney M Dyer wrote:

> At 12:21 PM 5/28/2004, you wrote:
>
>> Freelance is on by default because it solves the problem associated 
>> with the AFS Client Service being unable to contact the Volume Server 
>> at startup.   Without Freelance, if the root.afs volume cannot be 
>> accessed on the default cell, the AFS Client Service will panic.
>
>
> My two cents on this and similar....
>
> For most AFS client users the Freelance mode isn't important.  I'd 
> venture a guess that less than 20 percent of client users are mobile 
> laptop people where this would be useful.
>
> Same for having decryption "on" as default.  The Windows OpenAFS 
> community have gone for years with it "off", why is this "suddenly" a 
> requirement?
>
> The same goes for the netbios name now being AFS as default.  While 
> nice, the AFS default means that unless you have the loopback adapter 
> installed the AFS client won't work with the Explorer or NET USE 
> mapping syntax.  Nowhere on the OpenAFS.org site does it say that you 
> need to install the Loopback now so things will work.  I've already 
> had several user complaints from users who have downloaded the AFS 
> client on their own from OpenAFS and found that "things didn't work".
>
> It's kind of lame that Administrators of IT shops need to explain in 
> very explicity terms via our own documentation why this and that needs 
> to be done before the AFS client will work right.
>
> "The needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few, or the one."
>
> Rodney
>
Rodney:

Write documentation for OpenAFS.ORG instead of your local organization. 
It will better serve the community.

You do not need to install the loopback adapter for OpenAFS to work when 
you always have network connectivity.  However, as you are well aware 
most people do not have network connectivity (an IP address) at all 
times and therefore the loopback adapter is required. 

When the loopback adapter is installed we can use \\AFS instead of 
\\HOSTNAME-AFS.  If you want to force the use of \\HOSTNAME-AFS at all 
times I have told you how to do this.  Change the registry entry to use 
%COMPUTERNAME%-AFS instead of AFS.  You cannot use \\AFS without the 
loopback adapter because the name would be published by all machines and 
there would be conflicts.

Encryption is not a requirement, it is a recommendation.  You are of 
course free to turn it off.  As you are aware there are limitations to 
its use because of RX locking issues on Windows which appear to impact 
applications which perform multiple simultaneous reads.  These will be 
fixed (in time.) 

Jeffrey Altman

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