[OpenAFS] How to mount a cell that's not in CellServDB ?

[Björn Leffler]

I'm a normal user (not root) and I know they don't use DNS for cell info.
They have promised this for the next upgrade.

Does this mean it's impossible right now ?

Derrick J Brashear wrote:

> On Fri, 11 Oct 2002, [iso-8859-1] Björn Leffler wrote:
>
> > I have just set up my own AFS server + cell at home and would like to
> > connect as a client from my university. My problem is that the
> > administrators refuse to add my cell to their CellServDB file and thus
> > fs doesn't find my cell when trying to mkmount.
> >
> > Is it still possible to mount/use the cell ? Not necessarily mounted in
> > /afs/my_cellname, but in my (/afs...) $HOME directory.
> >
> > I don't mind personally modifying the source code as long as I know it's
> > possible and doesn't generate any nasty secondary effects.
>
> if you can modify source, how can you not "own" CellServDB?
>
> Get them to enable -afsdb (or enable it yourself) and publish DNS info for
> your cell.
>
> > Looking through the source code, I found an environment variable called
> > AFSCONF, which fs uses if the standard CellServDB is not found. Could
> > this be a hint to the solution ?
>
> well, once you cram a cell into the kernel you're good, so you could do
> that as root (fs newcell the cell, then fs mkm and then on any machine
> where it's been fs newcell'd the mount point would work)
>
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