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

[Tim Gray]

Thank you muchly for that link.  I'll be poring over it as my time permits.

--Tim

On 14 Dec 2002 09:39:45 -0500
"Bryan J. Smith" <b.j.smith@ieee.org> wrote:

> On Fri, 2002-12-13 at 17:00, Tim Gray wrote:
> > I would love to hear your reasons... 
> > How do you admin everything to the fine-grain level that Novell allows in linux?  
> > 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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Tim Gray
Engineering Sysadmin
ADAC Plastics, Inc.
"Trying to compete with Linux is like nailing jello to a tree." - Jeff Thomas