Hi Ofer, The most likely problem here is an incorrectly specified auth file. It's quite easy to create a set of authorization that allow over-writing a file but not creating a new one. Could you show us the auth file you are using and provide the name of the user trying to create as well as the pathname. Andy > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > Date: Thu, 3 Feb 2011 13:34:18 -0500 > From: Ofer Rind <[log in to unmask]> > To: [log in to unmask] > Subject: Re: Conversion to writable XRootd > > My apologies, the correct web link below should be: > http://www4.rcf.bnl.gov/~rind/xrootd/ > Thanks, > Ofer > > On Feb 3, 2011, at 12:11 PM, Ofer Rind wrote: > > Hi, > We recently updated BNL's STAR XRootd deployment (to version > 20100315-1007_dbg) and would now like to convert it from readonly to > read/write. After making the configuration changes on > one data server, as a test, the simple UNIX auth scheme seems to work > fine, but the server is unable to create the file (error 3011, no such > file or directory). If I create an empty > placeholder file, the server finds it. An attempt to force overwrite of > the empty file results in an eventual timeout. These tests were done > trying to write directly to the server; > trying to go through the redirector returns a "No servers have write > access to the file" error. As far as I can tell, all permissions are > correct and there are no firewalls involved. > I must be missing something basic, so any guidance would be much > appreciated! Our setup is not particularly complex although it does > include a custom N2N library. I have made the > config file along with debug outputs available here: > http://www.rcf.bnl.gov/~rind/xrootd/ > > Thanks in advance for the help! > > Ofer > > >