[OpenAFS] server configuration error

Derrick Brashear shadow@gmail.com
Thu, 16 Oct 2008 08:07:43 -0400


On Thu, Oct 16, 2008 at 3:32 AM, Isaac Perez <Isaac.Perez@orb-data.com> wrote:
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> Hi Jeffrey,
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> Our problem is the lack of performance and reliability of CIFS/SMB across VPN, I found openAFS and I thought that it would be worth to giving it a chance.
> As some windows applications must run in the server,

Applications don't need to run in the server. You can install Windows
applications on a fileserver hosted on a Linux machine. Or is the
issue that you have just one machine?

> moving it to linux is not an option. Installing a virtualized linux machine in the server could be an option. But it will add levels of complexity to the system, and I would not lilke that.