Thanks John for your documentation on OpenAFS. It is a great help. I was
able to map my AFS home space with little effort.
Mapping the afs root drive.
After selecting a drive letter, the path should be "\afs" and the
description should be "Root"
At first you may get an error. In that case, you would need to remove any
unnecessary mappings as follows:
- Double-click on the AFS Client and uncheck any drive letters that are not
needed and then remove them.
- Click on the advanced button and stop the service.
- Click on Configure AFS Client button
- Make sure that the cell name is "msu.edu"
- Click on "Drive Letters" tab, choose "Advance" and remove any unnecessary
drive mappings and click OK. (Drive letters appear there as well even after
they were removed as indicated above)
- You may be prompted to Start the Service. Press Yes.
- Go to "Drive Letters" tab and map the Root drive as indicated above.
Hope this helps.
Firmin Charlot
AIS
-----Original Message-----
From: John Valenti [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: Monday, August 25, 2003 8:36 PM
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: OpenAFS install instructions
FYI
Here's a draft on installing the OpenAFS client on Windows 2000. Feel free
to edit it for your purposes.
The OpenAFS client allows you to connect to AFS resources, such as personal
& class webspace at MSU. This access method uses the original AFS protocols,
rather than MS Networking (those ports are blocked in many cases now) or
FTP.
INSTALLATION
1. Download the Windows client at the very bottom of this page:
http://openafs.org/release/latest.html
(Version 1.2.10, filename AFSforWindows.exe, about 12.8MB)
2. Run it.
A. take the "English" default - OK
B. deselect "AFS Supplemental documentation" (unless you want it)
C. AFS cell data bases - take default - NEXT ***
D. Enter cell name - use default (openafs.org) ***
E. At the next screen (Select local drive mounting), deselect both
Z: and U: ***
F. Finish installation & REBOOT.
USING IT
After rebooting and logging in, find the new icon for the AFS client in your
system tray. Click the button to obtain tokens.
Cell should be msu.edu
Username should be your MSU NetID (is that what we call it this week?)
PW should be your password
Click and you should receive a (Kerberos?) token good for 24 hours.
Switch to the tab for Drive Letters
Click on the entry and select the Change button
Choose an available drive letter.
For the AFS path use something like \afs\msu.edu\user\v\a\valenti ****
(the "v" above would be replaced by the first letter of your ID, the
"a" by the second letter, the "valenti" by your ID
Click the button to reconnect automatically, if you want.
You should be connected to your AFS home directory now.
NOTES
*** - I'm ignorant of the finer details of AFS. Possibly the default cell
name should be msu.edu, or perhaps someone could customize a data file that
would automate more of this process.
**** - I think there is a path that would be the root of MSU's AFS space,
then you could maneuver around to whatever folders you have permissions in.
