[OpenAFS] AFS client for MAC OS 9.x

[Brent A Johnson]

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.
>