[OpenAFS] access 2 different cells from one workstation

Horst Birthelmer horst@riback.net
Thu, 4 Aug 2005 21:49:24 +0200


On Aug 4, 2005, at 8:38 PM, Ron Croonenberg wrote:

> Hello all,
>
> I have 2 OpenAFS servers  let's call it csc and afs-1
>
> I have a workstation and want to configure the client to be able  
> two access both the afs-servers/cells.
>
> (So on the workstation  on /afs both csc and afs-1 are mounted
> and when I look at /afs I would see :
> drwxrwxrwx    4 root     root         2048 Sep  6   
> 2001 .csc.depauw.edu
> drwxrwxrwx    4 root     root         2048 Sep  6  2001 csc.depauw.edu
> drwxrwxrwx    4 root     root         2048 Sep  6   
> 2001 .afs-1.csc.depauw.edu
> drwxrwxrwx    4 root     root         2048 Sep  6  2001  
> afs-1.csc.depauw.edu
>
> I tried to change the config files by added another entry in the  
> CellServDB, but then what ?  (when I "mess" with the ThisCell file  
> it only takes the first one)
>
> Can it be done ? (On a windows workstation one can access multiple  
> cells) How is it done (on Linux)

 From the information you provided I'm not quite sure what you're  
trying to accomplish.
If your listing looks like the one above, what do you want more?
If not, are you using -dynroot on your clients? (I don't know the  
name of the switch for a windows client was)

Horst