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Setting Up & Configuring OpenAFS on Mac OS X

Note: (Local) Administrator access will be required for most of the steps in this document

Step #1: Download and install OpenAFS

1. Go to the following website: http://openafs.org/macos.html

2. Click on the “Maintenance Release” version that will work with your OS version

3. Go to the download Section and click on link to download!

4. Click on the dmg that has downloaded. The dmg should open a window.

5. Click and Drag the “Uninstall.command” icon to a safe place on the hard drive

Note: This is used to uninstall OpenAFS

6. Back in the dmg window, double Click the

OpenAFS.pkg icon

7. Follow the installer guide to install

OpenAFS

8. When prompted for a “local cell name”,

enter bu.edu

Step #2: Configure Data Files

1. Open System Preferences

2. Click on the OpenAFS Preference pane(Listed under Other)

3. Click the Shutdown button to stop the AFS service while configuration is completed

4. Enable the Start AFS at boot checkbox, and click yes if it asks you to create a folder

titled “LaunchAgents”

5. Select the CellServDB Editor tab.

6. Select all of the servers listed and click the – (minus) button at the bottom of the screen

Note: Removing all of these existing servers may take a little while, please be patient.

7. Once all servers are removed, click the + (plus) icon to add the BU servers.

8. Enter the following information:

Afs Cell: bu.edu Comment: Boston University

9. Add the following Authentication Servers:

128.197.27.84 kerberos2.bu.edu

128.197.27.92 kerberos1.bu.edu

128.197.26.101 kerberos3.bu.edu

10. Click OK, and then Save Cell Configuration

11. Click Startup to connect to AFS

Note: If this GUI interface does not respond to the Startup button, logout then log back in to

your account.

Step #3: Configure Finder View

1. Switch to the Finder

2. Open the Finder Preferences

3. Select the check-box to show Connected

Servers on the desktop

4. A volume named afs should now appear on

the desktop

Step #4: AFS Verification

If the afs volume does not appear on the desktop, you can check for connectivity through the

Terminal:

1. Open Terminal (located in /Applications/Utilities/)

2. Type df -k and hit enter

3. You should see an AFS volume listed, example:

Filesystem 1024-blocks Used Available Capacity Mounted on

/dev/disk0s2 77814832 13121780 64437052 17% /

devfs 105 105 0 100% /dev

fdesc 1 1 0 100% /dev

map –hosts 0 0 0 100% /net

map auto_home 0 0 0 100% /home

AFS 16000000 0 16000000 0% /afs

4. Type klog -t and hit enter to obtain a AFS token from the Authentication Server.

Note: Obtaining a AFS token can be accomplished on the Tokens tab of the System

Preferences Pane also.