[schandor]

OK, I found that the OpenAFS server is in the Mac download but it looks awfully complicated to set up. Has anyone successfully done this?

[schandor]

Sorry for the incredibly delayed reply. Yes I have looked into OpenAFS but it seems as though they only have a Client for Mac, not a server. If this is not right please let me know.

In the meantime, has anyone successfully compiled AFS from source?

Thanks.

[schandor]

I found this in a Computer World article. Hopefully it helps you out.

“If you do host the user homes on a machine other than the PDC, there is another bug that quickly becomes obvious. It’s in the implementation of Samba, where the server won’t drop connections, meaning any user file activity will open another connection. I had 17 machines generate more than 200 connections in under an hour, effectively hanging up my machine. There are two solutions to this issue: The first is to edit the smb.conf file on the file server and add the following line near the beginning of the file (without the quotes): “dead time = 10″. This lets the server drop unused connections after 10 minutes. ”

Here is the link to the entire article.
[url]http://www.computerworld.com/softwaretopics/os/macos/story/0,10801,90699,00.html?f=x253[/url]

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