[OpenAFS-win32-devel] Slow Windows logins with AFS installed

[Dan Pritts]

Interestingly, we ran into a similar problem that our windows 
folks believed was related to the openafs client.

the other day they finally did a systematic test and determined
that even after uninstalling openafs it still stalled.

Eventually they tracked it down to the "windows image acquisition"
service, which supports scanners and direct connection of digital
cameras.  Disable that and boot goes at normal speed.

It may in fact be related to openafs, somehow (perhaps the uninstaller
leaves something behind?), but in our case it was an easy choice
to get rid of this image acquisition thing.

On Wed, Jan 25, 2006 at 08:07:15PM -0400, Ted Anderson wrote:
> I have had a problem with recent versions of Windows AFS in which it 
> causes a long delay (60-90 seconds) when logging in.  I always disable 
> integrated logon, but it doesn't help.  In the past, I had to search 
> through the registry and find references to afslogon and got rid of some 
> of them.  Through trial and error and numerous reboots I was able to get 
> login to go at a normal speed.  Lately, though I've been using Spybot 
> Search and Destroy, so I have a more deterministic mechanism to report. 
>  I go into the tools section, system startup panel and delete the 
> entries for AfsLogon and KFWLogon (this latter might not be necessary as 
> I don't run KfW).  Then I reboot and login is fast.
> 
> My situation is that I generally use AFS through a VPN, which is off 
> when I login.  I have the client configured into a cell behind the VPN. 
>  So after logging in, I start the VPN and run klog before attempting to 
> use AFS.  I am using freelance to create the /afs volume dynamically.  I 
> am running Windows 2000 Professional SP4.  I observe these slow logins 
> on both my desktop and laptop, so it isn't a funny characteristic of a 
> single machine.
> 
> With the release of 1.4.1rc5, I installed the latest Windows client 
> (server is uninstalled, but I have the MS Loopback adapter installed) 
> and verified that the problem remains and the above-described 
> work-around still works.
> 
> Is this a known problem?  Is there a better fix than using Spybot tools? 
>  Is there other information about my configuration I could provide that 
> would help?
> 
> Ted Anderson
> 
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