Andrew File System (afs)

[profx]

Does anyone know of a way to connect to a afs server. I have searched everywhere, i found one but it involved a lot of modification to my local file system and wasn't suited to a system where it would only be connected to the network sometimes. (I have a powerbook)

Is there such a beast that is like a ftp client? Ideally i would like to mount the share on my desktop just like most network file systems afp, smb, cifs etc. I believe this is would involve developing a kernel extension - has anyone done this?


Any help appreciated

 

[ylon]

I've been searching for info on how well OpenAFS works with MacOS X, particularly given data and resource forks. I am very seriously considering implementing OpenAFS on my Mac, Windows and Linux boxes for data redundancy, etc. but have not found answers on how well OpenAFS works on MacOS X.2.

 

[ylon]

See:
https://lists.openafs.org/pipermail/port-darwin/

for help setting up OpenAFS on MacOS X. It appears that this will do away with all of our MacOS X/Windows/Linux/etc. synching woes!!! Now we just need a control panel interface and an easily installable package!

 

[fuzz]

I'm not sure if this helps your problem, but as a Carnegie Mellon University alum, we used Cyrusoft's Mulberry mail client. afs came from CMU.

http://www.cyrusoft.com/mulberry/