Introduction

Or, better known as why on Earth would you want to read this. The aims of this document are to help others become familiar with OpenAFS and Linux in hope that both of these products will become trusted as a viable solution for our AFS needs. I hope to do this by explaining the steps needed to set up the NCSU Realm Kit for Red Hat Linux to run the OpenAFS server as well as requirements needed and some pointers to more information.

This document explicitly covers setting up an OpenAFS file server on the NCSU Realm Kit for Red Hat Linux version 7.3 and 9. Hopefully, the procedure for doing the same on other version of the Linux Realm Kit will be, and should be, very similar. This document does not cover setting up an OpenAFS volume database server, update server, or setting up a new AFS cell. In the future, if this information is useful to NC State University that information should be added to this document.

A long term goal is to see the NCSU Realm Kit for Red Hat Linux 7.3, 9, or higher stable version to be officially supported as platforms for AFS servers. Please note that as of this writing that the Linux platform is not supported in any way as an AFS server platform.