Subject: Re: [netatalk-admins] Whereabouts of AFS
From: Yuji Shinozaki (yuji@physics.unc.edu)
Date: Wed Apr 15 1998 - 15:52:29 EDT
On Wed, 15 Apr 1998, Tony Moran wrote:
> >Previously...
> >Someone can correct me if I'm wrong here, but AFS is the Andrew
> >FileSystem, a commercial product from TransArc
> >(http://www.transarc.com/). I don't believe there is a
> >freely-available (think freedom *or* free beer) implementation.
>
> Oh..ok.. (showing his ingenue now) So how come support for it is provided
> for it in Asuns 1.4b2 distribution - where does AFS fit into the Netatalk
> picture ?
>
> Sorry for all the questions..but..you know.. as they say, if ya dont ask
> the questions..
>
Well, er, that means that if you have AFS, Asun's distribution will
support it. It does not provide you with AFS or anything like that...
Or am I missing something here.
Access to AFS filesystems requires authentication and authorization
via AFS' version of kerberos. Without support for AFS, something like
netatalk would not be able to access those files on AFS volumes properly.
yuji
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