[OpenAFS] Issues with openafs in VMware player with Windows host - SOLVED

[Jason Edgecombe]

Derek Atkins wrote:
> Jason Edgecombe <jason@rampaginggeek.com> writes:
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>> Derek Atkins wrote:
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>>> Jason Edgecombe <jason@rampaginggeek.com> writes:
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>>>> Hi everyone,
>>>>
>>>> We're trying to run VMware player with a windows XP host & XP guest. The
>>>> guest is using NAT and both the host & guest use openafs. There seem to
>>>> be sporadic delays of several seconds in writing files or browsing
>>>> folders. I have changed the udp delay to 1 hour, which helps, but the
>>>> problem persists.
>>>>
>>>> Any ideas?
>>>>         
>>> What version of OpenAFS are you using on your clients?  Servers?
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>> guest: the latest 1.5 for XP
>> host: 1.4.x for XP
>> servers: 1.4.1 for solaris
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> Hmm..  I suspect you might need to update the host and the servers.
> Hopefully jaltman will reply more authoritatively.
>   
FYI

We got this fixed without needing to upgrade the AFS client on the host
or servers. The problem was the UDP timeout. When running VMware
Player's vmnetcfg.exe to configure, the timeout, the GUI silently
discarded my udp timeout change because I wasn't logged in as
Administrator. When I made the change as Administrator, everything was fine.

Sincerely,
Jason