[OpenAFS-win32-devel] Problem obtaining AFS tokens in Windows XP

Aaron Adler cadlerun@csail.mit.edu
Thu, 17 Nov 2005 20:39:17 -0500


Thanks for the suggestion. I added the csail servers to the CellServDB 
file, but I'm still getting the same error message. Any other 
suggestions or things I can do to get some more debugging information?

Thanks,
Aaron

On 11/16/2005 9:16 PM, Jeffrey Altman wrote:
> My first guess is that when you are home the DNS server is not providing
> you access to the csail.mit.edu AFSDB records.   You might want to try
> adding them to your CellServDB file.
> 
> Jeffrey Altman
> 
> 
> Aaron Adler wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I have a problem with OpenAFS on my laptop. I'm running Windows XP SP 2
>> (Tablet Edition) with OpenAFS Client 1.4.0008. I was having problems and
>> tried to fix them, and eventually gave up and reinstalled Windows, but
>> I'm still having the problem. At one time, OpenAFS worked on my laptop.
>> Now, it works when I'm at work, but not when I'm at home. However, my
>> desktop at home (on the same network) works just fine.
>>
>> My AFS Client does not appear to be able to contact the cell to get my
>> tokens. I'm also using Kerberos so my machine can get Kerberos tickets,
>> but hangs for about a minute while it is doing so (presumably because it
>> tries to get AFS tokens and eventually gives up). I've run the following
>> command using the command shell:
>>
>> C:\Documents and Settings\cadlerun>aklog -d -c csail.mit.edu
>> aklog: Can't get information about cell csail.mit.edu.
>>
>> Any help in debugging this would be greatly appreciated.
>>
>> Many thanks,
>> Aaron Adler
>>
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