[OpenAFS] Help needed in configuring OpenAFS

[Christof Hanke]

Hi,

OpenAFS-servers on not supported on Windows (yet).
Maybe the Server-wizard should be disabled for now ?

You must run them on a *ix-OS.

/Christof

shailesh_joshi@persistent.co.in wrote:
> Hi. 
> 
> I have installed OpenAFS 1.4.206 on Windows XP and Windows 2003. 
> I have followed all the steps for installation and configuration as mentioned in the documentation. 
> However, when it comes to the final screen of Server Confuguration wizard, it fails at the step - 
> "Create the root volumes" giving Windows Error Message popup - 
> "Unable to determine the partition's on this server. 
> Error: server or network not responding (0xFFFFFFFF)" 
> Following are the lines from afs_server_config_log.txt, on getting this error. 
> 
> ....................... 
> 12:35:14 11/23/06:  Starting the File Server. 
> 12:35:19 11/23/06:  Opening server ps2787.pspl.co.in. 
> 12:35:19 11/23/06:  Translating the parition name '/vicepj' to an ID. 
> 12:35:19 11/23/06:  The ID for partition '/vicepj' is 9. 
> 12:35:19 11/23/06:  Stopping the client. 
> 12:35:20 11/23/06:  Creating volume root.afs on partition 9 with a quota of 5000. 
> 12:35:34 11/23/06:  Error 0xffffffff has occurred: server or network not responding. 
> 12:35:38 11/23/06:  Closing the connection to this server. 
> 12:35:38 11/23/06:  Configuration has failed. 
> 12:36:12 11/23/06:  User has chosen to cancel the program. 
> 
> Another issue is with starting the OpenAFS client. 
> On starting the "OpenAFS Client Service" from Windows-Services, it starts the service and stops it 
> immediately giving following message popup. 
> "The OpenAFS Client Service service on Local Computer started and then stopped. Some services stop 
> automatically if they have no work to do, for example, the Performance Logs and Alerts service." 
> (The AFS client service could not be started from the AFS client configuration wizard since it fails giving the message-You might not have authorization to perform this operation. Error 0x0000042A.) 
> 
> Hence the client could not be in the running state. 
> 
> Does anyone has faced these issues/ has pointers on these issues? 
> 
> Thanks and Regards, 
> Shailesh Joshi 
> 
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