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Billb3
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 OpenAFS – Experience
Linux, OpenAFS, Samba
I work for a company that has approx 150 users, 100 of those are in 8 offices divided pretty evenly, the rest are at home. I am looking at setting up OpenAFS (www.openafs.org) for filesharing. The home users would use the windows client and office users would connect to a Samba/OpenAFS bridge. Does anyone have any experience with OpenAFS? Thoughts?

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ASKED: March 12, 2008  2:36 PM
UPDATED: April 22, 2011  8:36 AM
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OpenAFS allows sharing disk space amongst hosts by all wikis participants on the Internet share one logical file space. It is an open source of Andrew File System / AFS. Each OpenAFS site has its own cell, which is compatible to windows domain (as mentioned by u Samba/OpenAfs bridge). U may use modprobe, which helps to loads AFS into the kernel. And now create partitions for storing AFS volumes. Also u may use pluggable authentication module / PAM for authenticate of afs client computers.
This is the thoughts, that I worked past on the same, but currently, I am not using it. But, if ur intention to only file sharing and set up procedure, please Link Here and Also see a Good Reference

Subhendu Sen
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