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This is the complete index for all the FAQ documents:
0 Preamble
0.01 Purpose and audience
0.02 Acknowledgements
0.03 Disclaimer
0.04 Release Notes
0.05 Quote
1 General
1.01 What is AFS?
1.02 Who supplies AFS?
1.03 What is /afs?
1.04 What is an AFS cell?
1.05 What are the benefits of using AFS?
1.05.a Cache Manager
1.05.b Location independence
1.05.c Scalability
1.05.d Improved security
1.05.e Single systems image (SSI)
1.05.f Replicated AFS volumes
1.05.g Improved robustness to server crash
1.05.h "Easy to use" networking
1.05.i Communications protocol
1.05.j Improved system management capability
1.06 Which systems is AFS available for?
1.07 What does "ls /afs" display in the Internet AFS filetree?
1.08 Why does AFS use Kerberos authentication?
1.09 Does AFS work over protocols other than TCP/IP?
1.10 How can I access AFS from my PC?
1.11 How does AFS compare with NFS?
2 Using AFS
2.01 What are the differences between AFS and a unix filesystem?
2.02 What is an AFS protection group?
2.03 What are the AFS defined protection groups?
2.04 What is an AFS access control list (ACL)?
2.05 What are the AFS access rights?
2.06 What is pagsh?
2.07 Why use a PAG?
2.08 How can I tell if I have a PAG?
2.09 Can I still run cron jobs with AFS?
2.10 How much disk space does a 1 byte file occupy in AFS?
2.11 Is it possible to specify a user who is external to the current AFS cell on an ACL?
2.12 Are there any problems printing files in /afs?
2.13 Can I create a fifo (aka named pipe) in /afs?
2.14 If an AFS server crashes, do I have to reboot my AFS client?
2.15 Can I use AFS on my diskless workstation?
2.16 Can I test for AFS tokens from within my program?
2.17 What's the difference between /afs/cellname and /afs/.cellname?
2.18 Can I klog as two users on a machine in the same cell?
2.19 What are the ~/.__afsXXXX files?
2.20 How do you set up IP-based ACLs?
2.21 What meaning do the owner, group, and mode bits have in AFS?
2.22 What are "dropboxes"?
3 AFS administration
3.01 Is there a version of xdm available with AFS authentication?
3.02 Is there a version of xlock available with AFS authentication?
3.03 What is /afs/@cell?
3.04 Given that AFS data is location independent, how does an AFS client determine which server houses the data its user is attempting to access?
3.05 How does AFS maintain consistency on read-write files?
3.06 Which protocols does AFS use?
3.07 Which TCP/IP ports and protocols do I need to enable in order to operate AFS through my Internet firewall?
3.08 Are setuid programs executable across AFS cell boundaries?
3.09 How can I run daemons with tokens that do not expire?
3.10 Can I check my user's passwords for security purposes?
3.11 Is there a way to automatically balance disk usage across fileservers?
3.12 Can I shutdown an AFS fileserver without affecting users?
3.13 How can I set up mail delivery to users with $HOMEs in AFS?
3.14 Should I replicate a ReadOnly volume on the same partition and server as the ReadWrite volume?
3.15 Should I start AFS before NFS in /etc/inittab?
3.16 Will AFS run on a multi-homed fileserver?
3.17 Can I replicate my user's home directory AFS volumes?
3.18 What is the Andrew Benchmark?
3.19 Where can I find the Andrew Benchmark?
3.20 Is there a version of HP VUE login with AFS authentication?
3.21 How can I list which clients have cached files from a server?
3.22 Do Backup volumes require as much space as ReadWrite volumes?
3.23 Should I run timed on my AFS client?
3.24 Why should I keep /usr/vice/etc/CellServDB current?
3.25 How can I keep /usr/vice/etc/CellServDB current?
3.26 How can I compute a list of AFS fileservers?
3.27 How can I set up anonymous FTP login to access /afs?
3.28 Is the data sent over the network encrypted in AFS ?
3.29 What underlying filesystems can I use for AFS ?
3.30 Compiling OpenAFS
3.31 Upgrading OpenAFS
3.32 Debugging OpenAFS
3.33 Tuning client cache for huge data
3.34 Settting up PAM with AFS
3.35 Setting up AFS key in KDC and KeyFile
3.36 Obtaining and getting asetkey compiled
3.37 afs_krb_get_lrealm() using /usr/afs/etc/krb.conf
3.38 Moving from kaserver to Heimdal KDC
3.39 Moving from KTH-KRB4 to Heimdal KDC
3.40 What are those bos(1) -type values simple and cron?
3.41 KDC listens on port 88 instead of 750
3.42 afsd gives me "Error -1 in basic initialization." on startup
3.43 Although I get krb tickets, afslog doesn't give me tokens, I see UDP packets to port 4444
3.44 I get error message trhough syslogd: "afs: Tokens for user of AFS id 0 for cell foo.bar.baz are discarded (rxkad error=19270407)"
3.45 I get tickets and tokens, but still get Permission denied.
3.46 Recovering broken afs cache on clients
3.47 What does it mean for a volume to not be in the VLDB?
3.48 What is a Volume Group?
3.49 What is a Clone?
3.50 What is a Shadow?
3.51 Can I authenticate to my afs cell using multiple kerberos Realms?
3.52 Is it a good idea to store mail in AFS?
3.53 How can I ensure that the userids on client machines match the users' pts ids?
3.54 What is Fast Restart?
4 Getting more information
4.01 Is there an anonymous FTP site with AFS information?
4.02 Which USENET newsgroups discuss AFS?
4.03 Where can I get training in AFS?
4.04 Where can I find AFS resources in World Wide Web (WWW)?
4.05 Is there a mailing list for AFS topics?
4.06 Where can I find an archive of
info-afs@transarc.com
?
4.09 Gibt es eine deutsche AFS Benutzer Gruppe?
4.10 Donde puedo encontrar informacion en Espanol sobre AFS?
4.11 Are there books on AFS?
4.12 Where can I find tools to use with AFS?
4.13 Where can I find stuff from the old transarc.com web site?
5 About the AFS faq
5.01 How can I get a copy of the AFS faq?
5.02 How can I get my question (and answer) into the AFS faq?
5.03 How can I access the AFS faq via the World Wide Web?
6 Bibliography
Reference used in the FAQ
Other miscellaneous reference to AFS
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