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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