From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Mar 1 21:20:50 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 55E2716A420 for ; Wed, 1 Mar 2006 21:20:50 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from drosih@rpi.edu) Received: from smtp4.server.rpi.edu (smtp4.server.rpi.edu [128.113.2.4]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ED55D43D45 for ; Wed, 1 Mar 2006 21:20:49 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from drosih@rpi.edu) Received: from [128.113.24.47] (gilead.netel.rpi.edu [128.113.24.47]) by smtp4.server.rpi.edu (8.13.0/8.13.0) with ESMTP id k21LKlOx005461; Wed, 1 Mar 2006 16:20:48 -0500 Mime-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: In-Reply-To: References: Date: Wed, 1 Mar 2006 16:20:46 -0500 To: "Craig Ryhorchuk" , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org From: Garance A Drosihn Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ; format="flowed" X-CanItPRO-Stream: default X-RPI-SA-Score: undef - spam-scanning disabled X-Scanned-By: CanIt (www . canit . ca) on 128.113.2.4 Cc: Subject: Re: AFS in FreeBSD 5.4 or 6 X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 01 Mar 2006 21:20:50 -0000 At 6:27 PM +0000 2/28/06, Craig Ryhorchuk wrote: >Hello, > > I am looking for specific instructions on installing, >maintaining and using AFS with FreeBSD 5.4 or 6. I want to set >up one or more servers and make them available to clients running >whatever O/S. I think Arla has the client side covered if >necessary, but all I can find for server-side is a downloadable >instruction-free bundle for 6.0 on the OpenAFS site. There are >specific instructions for other supported O/Ss but none for FreeBSD. >I have Googled and searched; not exhaustively I hope. There has >to be something out there. I think there are some people who run openafs servers on FreeBSD, but probably just people who already know enough about running OpenAFS servers that it is "obvious" (to them) what you would need to do. The problem is that the openafs client-side for FreeBSD never gets quite to the point of working. So, the number of openafs users on freebsd never reaches critical mass to get some of the less exciting work done -- such as OS-specific documentation... -- Garance Alistair Drosehn = gad@gilead.netel.rpi.edu Senior Systems Programmer or gad@freebsd.org Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute or drosih@rpi.edu