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Re: File access across campus
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Joel P. Cooper)
Tue Apr 19 13:31:31 1994
Date: Tue, 19 Apr 1994 12:03:29 -0500
To: lanea@rpi.edu (Adelaide I. Lane), resnet-forum@MIT.EDU
From: joel.p.cooper.1@nd.edu (Joel P. Cooper)
At 12:27 PM 4/19/94 -0400, Adelaide I. Lane wrote:
>Does anyone in this group have private student file access across campus with
>PC, Mac and UNIX boxes? Students in their residences have mostly PC and Mac
>machines and in public labs we have mostly UNIX, but some labs have PC and Mac
>machines, especially for multimedia. Is there an AFS-like product that will
>permit secure file access across platforms? Especially for multimedia data,
>gobs and gobs of it, we would like students who work in their rooms to able to
>access their private data, like they do at all UNIX boxes across campus. Right
>now they have to carry MO cartridges. If not across platforms, is there a PC
>product to do this without ftp. I'm not looking for a peer to peer network,
>either, as there isn't usually much security there.
We use AFS extensively here and like it a lot. It is the default file
system for most of the UNIX systems at Notre Dame.
We are currently experimenting with U. Michigan's AFP-to-AFS translator to
provide Macintosh access to AFSspace and with PC-NFS and Transarc's
NFS-to-AFS translator to provide DOS/Windows access to AFSspace. Both
translators run on UNIX boxes and provide native file protocol access to
Mac and PC clients. While we are not ready to call either of them
production-level services, they are both in place and being load tested.
Testers like the concept of seeing their AFS home directory represented as
a file icon or seeing their stuff at the DOS prompt.
We view this type of access as strategic not just for students but for the
institution as a whole. Makes everyone's life much easier for backups,
providing common workspace, providing neat things like gopher and www data
in a manageable way, all sorts of things.
Joel
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Asst. Director, Networking Services Fax: 219-631-8201
Office of University Computing Email: joel.p.cooper.1@nd.edu
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Notre Dame, IN 46556
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