[OpenAFS] Re: Weird LAN/WAN login problem

[Jukka Tuominen]

Great, I'll think about the way to go, and try it later on today.

Thanks again!
br, jukka


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On 27.2.2013, at 0.51, Andrew Deason <adeason@sinenomine.net> wrote:

> On Tue, 26 Feb 2013 22:38:44 +0200 (EET)
> jukka.tuominen@finndesign.fi wrote:
> 
>> Also, I wonder what happens when I create a new user? Should I get rid
>> of the local IP in CellServDB file, or will it be fine?
> 
> Okay, now that the existing database entries are all cleared up, you
> should make sure that future entries will be okay. The IP in your
> CellServDB isn't really relevant to the issues here. For clients, that
> should probably be the public IP; for the server, you should be able to
> put either one. But if you put the public IP in there, then it's the
> same as your client machines and that's probably less confusing; if you
> put the local/private IP in there, maybe it's less likely to change. So,
> one of those may be more convenient to you.
> 
> What matters more for this issue is what IPs the fileserver reports when
> it starts up. That is controlled by the files NetInfo and NetRestrict,
> but by default, the fileserver advertises all IP address it has (so,
> assuming both the public and local IPs show up in 'ifconfig', it will
> advertise both of them). If that's okay with you, you don't need to mess
> around with NetInfo or NetRestrict. The manpages for those should
> describe well enough what they do, if you want to use them.
> 
> Since the fileserver does this when it starts up, what you should
> probably do is restart the fileserver sometime, make sure everything is
> still okay, and check if FileLog mentions any errors about registering
> IP addresses. And then, running 'vos listaddrs -printuuid -noresolv'
> should show one entry with the public IP (or both the public and private
> IPs, depending on what you configured above). And running 'vos listvldb
> -noresolv' should show only one IP address for all of the entries.
> 
> If all that looks good, you can try making a new volume (if you want to
> make a new user with their home directory, that's one way), and make
> sure that volume looks correct with 'vos examine' and is accessible from
> both your WAN and LAN networks.
> 
> -- 
> Andrew Deason
> adeason@sinenomine.net
> 
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