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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.
Kerberos must enabled and configured. See How to Configure Kerberos.
Download the appropriate version of OpenAFS for your version of Mac OS X from openafs.org.
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:
Enter “iastate.edu” as shown.
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.