> > This is an odd one. > > WRT kerberos, I don't see how that affects mount of root.afs at /afs ... can > anyone explain ... ??? it shouldn't; you can run a cell with no kerberos server, you just can't authenticate to it unless you have a tool to "mint" tokens from the afs key and then distribute them. no one bothers with this because such a tool is called a "kdc" ;-)