Re: rootd

Fons Rademakers (Fons.Rademakers@cern.ch)
Mon, 30 Mar 1998 13:46:28 +0200


Hi Simon,

the rootd coming with the HP distribution of ROOT is not compiled
with AFS authentication. To build your own rootd (with AFS enabled) get:
ftp://root.cern.ch/root/rootd.tar.gz

Unzip, untar and read README on how to install (very simple).

Cheers, Fons.

> Hi rooters,
>
> I set up the rootd server at hpatl13 the following way,
>
> [atlas01] ~ > telnet hpatl13
> Trying...
> Connected to hpatl13.cern.ch.
> Escape character is '^]'.
> Local flow control on
> Telnet TERMINAL-SPEED option ON
>
> HP-UX hpatl13 B.10.20 A 9000/712 (ttypd)
>
> login: peeters
> Password:
> AFS (R) 3.4 Login
> *******************************************************************************
> * *
> * Welcome to the HPATL ATLAS machine *
> * (running HP-UX 10.20) *
> * *
> * Joel Closier - Joel.Closier@cern.ch or phone 77172 *
> * *
> *******************************************************************************
> [hpatl13] ~ % $ROOTSYS/bin/rootd -p 5151
> [hpatl13] ~ %
>
> Then in root, I try to acces this file:
>
> root [0] TFile *dst =
> TFile::Open("root://hpatl13.cern.ch:5151/localdisk/peeters/run1033.root","read");
> Name (hpatl13.cern.ch:peeters):
> Password:
> Error in <TNetFile::Authenticate>: wrong passwd
> Error in <TNetFile::TNetFile>: autentication failed for host hpatl13.cern.ch
> root [1]
>
> And even after making sure I got the password typed in right, the rootd is really running at
> hpatl13 and the filename and directory is correct, I still get the same error message???
>
> I hope someone knows what is wrong, because I desperately need to access this file!
>
> Simon Peeters.

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