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This is the complete index for all the FAQ documents:
- 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?
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