How to Install and Configure OpenAFS

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Table of Contents

About OpenAFS
System Requirements
Downloading OpenAFS
Installing OpenAFS
Configuring OpenAFS

About OpenAFS

AFS is a distributed filesystem product, pioneered at Carnegie Mellon University and supported and developed as a product by Transarc Corporation (now IBM Pittsburgh Labs). It offers a client-server architecture for file sharing, providing location independence, scalability and transparent migration capabilities for data.

IBM branched the source of the AFS product, and made a copy of the source available for community development and maintenance. They called the release OpenAFS.

System Requirements

Kerberos must enabled and configured. See How to Configure Kerberos.

Downloading OpenAFS

Download the appropriate version of OpenAFS for your version of Mac OS X from openafs.org.

Installing OpenAFS

  • If the downloaded file wasn’t automatically mounted, then double-click on the .dmg file to mount the disk image.

  • Double-click on the OpenAFS.pkg package installer to install OpenAFS.

  • During installation, the installer may ask for the following information:

    OpenAFSInstaller

  • Enter “iastate.edu” as shown.

Configuring OpenAFS

  • Download the OpenAFSConfig installer to configure OpenAFS for use at Iowa State University from http://tech.its.iastate.edu/macosx/downloads/OpenAFSConfig.dmg.

  • If the downloaded file wasn’t automatically mounted, then double-click on the .dmg file to mount the disk image.

  • Double-click on the OpenAFSConfig package installer to configure OpenAFS.

Caution

Configuring OpenAFS using the System Preferences OpenAFS Pane is not recommended. Only choose to configure OpenAFS yourself, if you would know how to configure OpenAFS by hand.

  • Reboot.


Last Updated July 19, 2016