[OpenAFS] AFS <-> DFS

[Russ Allbery]

Joerg Sommer <joerg@alea.gnuu.de> writes:

> Hi anybody,

> what a the diffences between AFS und DFS.

AFS is a mostly stand-alone enterprise file system (it only depends on
Kerberos).  DFS is the file system component of DCE, which is a much
larger piece of infrastructure that attempts to solve everything from
authentication to authorization to distributed directory services.

Many people on these mailing lists have had rather bad experiences with
DCE; other people have got it working.  It's a very large product with a
lot of components and a lot of complexity.  It's not something that you
decide to install just because you need a shared file system.

> And DFS is implemented in W2k.

No, it's not.  Windows 2000 has added something called Dfs, which is
something completely different than the DFS that comes with DCE.  Windows
2000 Dfs is, roughly, a location-independence layer on top of SMB file
shares.

> Is it possible to access an openAFS server with a this implementation?

No.  It has nothing to do with AFS.

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Russ Allbery (rra@stanford.edu)             <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>