[OpenAFS] Issues with pts ?

[Derrick J Brashear]

On Thu, 7 Jul 2005, Madhusudan Singh wrote:

> Hi
>
> I am trying to set up an openafs server / kerberos application server client
> with Slackware Linux (kernel 2.4.29).
>
> I was following the instructions at :
>
> http://grand.central.org/twiki/bin/view/AFSLore/InstallingtheFirstAFSMachine
>
> and ran up against the following problem :
>
> root@omega:/usr/afs/bin# ./pts createuser -name admin -cell omega.mit.edu
> -noauth
> ./pts: server or network not responding ; unable to create user admin
>
> I initially thought that my firewall was creating trouble. I cleared all the

is ptserver running on the server in question? bos status server.host 
ptserver -noauth

does the CellServDB on the client correctly point to that server?