AFS: Mac OS X

These instructions are for Mac OS X 10.5 and later

Download the appropriate disk image OpenAFS-1.4.7-Leopard.dmg and run the installer.

After installing, you will need to reboot.

Authentication

To authenticate to AFS, type these two commands (replacing the example user username, realm EECS.BERKELEY.EDU, and cell research.cs.berkeley.edu with appropriate values).

kinit username@EECS.BERKELEY.EDU
aklog -c research.cs.berkeley.edu

Note that (aside from a very few atypical realms) your realm name must be in all capital letters.

.DS_Store

It is also a good idea to turn of .DS_Store on network mounts:

defaults write com.apple.desktopservices DSDontWriteNetworkStores true

GUI

If you would like a GUI for obtaining tokens, you might try AFSCommander Preference Pane, which you can download here. However, I have had some problems with it freezing, unfortunately.



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