The quality of the AFS client for Windows NT is not on par with
its Unix counter part. Also there is still a fairly large number
of Win 95/98 machines still out there (at least in our environment).
On Fri, 19 Nov 1999, Alex Lenderman wrote:
> David,
>
> We are running AFS-3.5 client on Red Hat Linux here, at Brookhaven Lab.
> We have more than 200 Linux machines with AFS.
> AFS on Linux is stable and except few cases of cache corruption we are
> satisfied with it.
> I don't understand why you want to use Linux and a gateway to AFS for smb
> clients.
> There is an AFS Client for Windows NT. You can directly connect an NT
> machine with AFS server. The AFS directory will get a next drive letter.
> Of course, a user will have to obtain an AFS token. But he will do it
> from his/her NT machine. If you adopt this scheme you will not need
> Linux or any other special machine.
>
> Regards,
>
> Alex
>
> AFS-3.5-ACH-011599
>
> David Bear wrote:
>
> > I am wondering if anyone us running afs on linux and what kind of
> > experience you may have.
> >
> > I would like to use linux and a gateway to afs for smb clients. Issues I
> > see are obtaining tokens on an individual basis (a token for each user),
> > and security (message on the wire running with weak to no encyrption, and
> > also smb password hashes being incompatible with either unix or kerberos).
> >
> > Very interested in responses.
> >
> > David Bear
> > College of Public Programs/ASU
> > A word is just two nibbles and a byte...
>
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