From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Mar 15 20: 6:14 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from picard.vonbek.dhs.org (bgm-24-24-79-198.stny.rr.com [24.24.79.198]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E7CE637B417 for ; Fri, 15 Mar 2002 20:06:10 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (johnnyb@localhost) by picard.vonbek.dhs.org (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g2G47Lt00213 for ; Fri, 15 Mar 2002 23:07:21 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from johnnyb@stny.rr.com) X-Authentication-Warning: picard.vonbek.dhs.org: johnnyb owned process doing -bs Date: Fri, 15 Mar 2002 23:07:21 -0500 (EST) From: John Bleichert X-X-Sender: johnnyb@picard.vonbek.dhs.org To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: afs or arla client info Message-ID: <20020315230245.J198-100000@picard.vonbek.dhs.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG ok - we have a fairly functional (if small) AFS cell at home - mostly Linux, but the OSX client works fine and I tried the windas client and it works well too, although I have no use for it. I like AFS a lot and, increasingly, FreeBSD. I'll try the net/arla port tomorrow morning (didnt see it, will look again) and I'll also try and build openafs just for yucks; I use it already on Linux and OSX. I'll let you know how it works out. JB >At 1:45 PM -0500 3/15/02, Johnny B . wrote: >>Hello All >> >>I've been poking around in the mailing list archives for >>answers but I'm still not clear on this: has anybody been >>able to use an AFS client on FreeBSD? arla/openafs/whatever. > >If you are familiar with the ports system, there is a port >for net/arla. It might work on freebsd-stable, it does not >work on -current. I am trying to pick up some work done >by others, and see if I can get a newer version of arla >working on freebsd-current (and maybe freebsd-stable too). > >I am also keenly interested in OpenAFS for freebsd. There >is *some* work going on at www.openafs.org for a freebsd >port, but it does not have as many people working on it >as openafs for some other platforms. I am also going to >look into that work, as I get time. > >Obviously you would only need *one* of openafs or arla! >I'm looking at arla because it is closer to working, and >then I'll look at openafs because that would be an easier >sell to various people here at RPI. (OpenAFS is something >of a known quantity here at RPI, while ARLA is not >currently used). <-John Bleichert----syborg@stny.rr.com----------------> <-------------------http://vonbek.dhs.org/latest.jpg--> To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message