[OpenAFS] New "B" question: Samba versus AFS.

[Tino Schwarze]

On Sun, Dec 01, 2002 at 12:58:04PM +0100, Rubino Geiß wrote:

> > > >One setup has two Linux servers (one of them is "the AFS server")
> > > >and only Win98 clients which access files via Samba. The other
> > > >setup does not use a Samba translator but only native clients on
> > > >Linux and Win2k.
> 
> You do not need a  Samba translator for using / accessing AFS on Win95
> oder Win98 oder ME! We successfully use "AFSforWindows9x.exe" for
> those old systems.
> (http://www.openafs.org/dl/openafs/1.2.2b/win9x/AFSforWindows9x.exe)

Because this translator is not really multi-user. It would end up as an
ugly hack. For example, there is no integration into the "Login-Sytem"
of Win9x. It's basically a single-user AFS client. Or did I miss
something?

> Why else do you have to use samba?

For setting up a Windows Domain, logon scripts and printing just to name
a few. 

Bye, Tino.

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