[OpenAFS-devel] AFS Server for Windows

Otto-Michael BRAUN omb@computer.org
Sun, 02 Mar 2003 11:34:15 +0100


At 22:50 01.03.2003 -0600, Charles Clancy wrote:
>On Sat, 1 Mar 2003, Otto-Michael BRAUN wrote:
>
> > There are some (important) software packets based on win2k server /
> > client architecture. I hoped to be able to integrate them by running the
> > win2k server with OpenAFS server services on top. Next try will be wine.
>
>Your fileserver doesn't need to execute the applications -- just provide
>them to others over the network.  If you run the AFS server on a linux
>machine, you can then set up a win2k server as an AFS client to run those
>applications (assuming those servers need access to files in AFS space).

You are completely right. The win2k server could access its own files only 
using the OpenAFS client.
  I will give that a try. Thanks!

Otto-Michael BRAUN