I am a little confused about the status of OpenAFS. I manage a network of around 300 Linux workstations and Windows 2000/XP PC. Those PC reside on a network divided in 12 different areas interconnected over Frame relay.
Right now I am running everything over NFS + NIS+ + AUTOFS + SAMBA. All sites have a small server that holds the user home directory of that location and sync at night with the main server. Some common directories are shared over NFS over wan. The problem is users are constantly been reassigned to other locations and it is hard to keep track where they are, therefore a lot of traffic end up being on the wan. I have read that OpenAFS would solve that problem. However when reading the mailing list or reading user comments on the net, I am not so sure I could gradually and easily move to OpenAFS. I am not even sure I am looking at the right product for my problem. This is what I would like to do. On one unused server, create an AFS cell for all home directories, then move all home directories to it and in our current autofs change our /home to point to that server /afs ... This way on the client side I should have nothing else to change. Only servers will know about AFS. I could still be running NFS on the clients and Samba on another server. Now my understanding is that is not possible because of locking, authentication, etc ... Looking for comments from people with similar setup and experience. Thanks Pascal _______________________________________________ OpenAFS-info mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.openafs.org/mailman/listinfo/openafs-info
