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I checked with Steve Devine. He and Chris did some diagnostic work yesterday, and Steve forwarded a query to the folks that run the CL's WINS server. However no changes were made to the WINS server. Doug Nelson tells me that a problem was reported yesterday with some Mac lab access to drive mapping, and he relaxed ICMP limitations to solve that problem. That change occurred late yesterday afternoon. It is possible that that change also fixed the problems that Chris Wolf and John Fishbeck experienced. Whatever caused the "voila!" was certainly not intentionally done in darkness but if things are working that weren't that's good. This also means that "ping" among academic buildings is now opened up again, a separate concern raised on NAG. (ICMP from residence halls is still blocked.) I think there's a pretty strong consensus in the Computer Lab that OpenAFS is the better approach to connecting your Windows PC to AFS space. In separate news, the AFS team opened up ports 7001 through 7004 for off-campus (e.g. cable modem) access to AFS. (They may also need to open 7009 but are not sure this is needed.) /rich >Well, well - after reading Chris' posting below, I just tried to map a drive to > my AFS space and viola! it worked again (for the first time in ~2 weeks)! > Hmmmmm. Just a coincidence, or the result of the good Mr. Wolf's efforts at > following up on this problem? You decide... > >I'm believing the latter. I'd already installed and configured the AFS client, > per John Valenti's excellent efforts, and was prepared to kiss MS drive >mapping > bye-bye. May still do so. Contest is between MS's seamless and easy-to-use > mapping interface and the AFS's client clearly superior authentication and > security. In these days of increasingly crazy life on the 'net, I may well opt > for the more robust security solution. > >Thanks to all who contributed on this issue. Once again proves the high value >of > lists like this. > >Regards, > >John Fishbeck >MSU Physical Plant Computer Systems >Physical Plant Bldg, Ste 1 > >5-3375, ext 187 > > >>>> [log in to unmask] 08/28/03 08:27AM >>> > >I stepped through this on the phone yesterday with Steve Devine so he could >fully understand the way it was (mis)behaving, and he said he would follow >up. Today it's working again for us, so I assume he found the problem and >fixed it. My faculty are very appreciative. > >--Chris >============================================== >Chris Wolf Computer Service Manager >Agricultural Economics [log in to unmask] >Michigan State University 517 353-5017