[KLUG Members] Re: An off-shoot IPX/SPX question... -- Kerberos-AFS is the best answer ...

[Bryan J. Smith]

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On Fri, 2002-12-13 at 17:00, Tim Gray wrote:
> I would love to hear your reasons...=20
> How do you admin everything to the fine-grain level that Novell allows in=
 linux? =20
> I don't know, and would love to learn it.

You mean AFS?

Start with ...
   http://www.openafs.org

Unlike NFS and Samba, which direct access the underlying filesystem of
the host server platform, AFS is a "virtualized" filesystem.  As such,
it has its own permissions, attributes, authentication (Kerberos),
etc... independent of the host server platform.

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