From 67bcc19c754e7bfd55d098e9fe17723340c275ba Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jason Edgecombe Date: Sun, 30 Aug 2009 18:13:06 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] Updated Chapter 2, Section 3.3 of the Admin Guide Added text about Freelance Mode and Dynamric Root Mode and the changes they cause when dealing with mounts to foreign cells in /afs and \\AFS Reviewed-on: http://gerrit.openafs.org/380 Reviewed-by: Jeffrey Altman Reviewed-by: Derrick Brashear Tested-by: Derrick Brashear --- doc/xml/AdminGuide/auagd007.xml | 30 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++- 1 file changed, 29 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/doc/xml/AdminGuide/auagd007.xml b/doc/xml/AdminGuide/auagd007.xml index 5b8927ef17..01d011df20 100644 --- a/doc/xml/AdminGuide/auagd007.xml +++ b/doc/xml/AdminGuide/auagd007.xml @@ -916,7 +916,11 @@ user receives an AFS token when Making Other Cells Visible in Your Cell - To make a foreign cell's filespace visible on a client machine in your cell, perform the following three steps: + To make a foreign cell's filespace visible on a client machine + in your cell that is not configured + for Freelance Mode + or Dynamic Root mode, perform the + following three steps: Mount the cell's root.cell volume at the second level in your cell's filespace @@ -948,6 +952,30 @@ user receives an AFS token when + Non-windows client machines may + enable Dynamic Root Mode by using + the -dynroot option + to afsd. When this option is + enabled, all cells listed in + the CellServDB file will appear in + the /afs directory. The contents of + the root.afs volume will be ignored. + + + Windows client machines may + enable Freelance Mode during client + installation or by setting + the FreelanceClient setting + under Service Parameters in the + Windows Registry as mentioned in + the Release + Notes. When this option is enabled, + the root.afs volume is ignored and + a mounpoint for each cell is automatically created in the + the \\AFS directory when the + folder \\AFS\cellname + is accessed and the foreign Volume Location servers can be reached. + Note that making a foreign cell visible to client machines does not guarantee that your users can access its filespace. The ACLs in the foreign cell must also grant them the necessary permissions.