[OpenAFS] AFS client for MAC OS 9.x
Brent A Johnson
brent.johnson@jpl.nasa.gov
Sun, 18 Nov 2001 21:36:07 -0800
We've installed Samba (compiled "-with-afs") on a unix box and use Dave
(from Thursby Corp) to access AFS via the Samba box. Works pretty good.
Only drawback is that Dave is a commercial product (something like
$80/client).
-Brent
Garance A Drosihn wrote:
> At 12:02 PM -0500 11/16/01, barker wrote:
>
>> Is there an AFS client for Mac OS 9.x?
>
>
> I doubt that would ever exist. It's too much work, and for an
> operating system which is not going to be seeing growth. The
> main issue is how much work it would be to implement, though.
>
> Better to install Netatalk or CAP on some kind of unix box, and
> then install openafs on that box. Your MacOS 9 machines could
> then at least get to afs filesystems via the unix box. There
> is still some work involved, I imagine, but a lot less work
> than starting on a native OpenAFS client for MacOS 9.
>