Re: Problem obtaining tokens

I will place a bet that you are using or have used Offline Folders
and that

	NET VIEW \\AFS

will show the server as being offline until you access the VPN.
This seems to be a configuration problem on Windows but I am not
sure how to correct the configuration.

Jeffrey Altman


Rudi Strasser wrote:

> I am experiencing a problem while obtaining tokens:
> 
> 1) when I use the afs_credentials program to obtain the tokens it fails with a 
> message ("afs service is not started" or so). Nevertheless, it seems to be 
> able to communicate with the afs server, since it tells me when I enter an 
> incorrect password.
> 
> 2) I found a workaround by accident: If I connect to a VPN account and try to 
> obtain the token while the VPN connection is active, the tokens are returned 
> successfully as soon as I quit the VPN connection (only sometimes though). As 
> soon as I have one token it is no problem at all to get a token for another 
> cell. All the AFS connections are working excellent from that point. The only 
> critical issue is obtaining the first token.
> 
> I am sorry that I can not be more specific about that issue, I wish I could. 
> Does anybody have a clue what could be the reason for the strange behavior.
> 
> The behavior is the same in 1.3.70/71/73.
> 
> Best regards,  Rudi
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