[52] in winnt
Re: NT AFS
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Paul B. Hill)
Tue Oct 14 12:30:33 1997
Date: Tue, 14 Oct 1997 12:30:04 -0400
To: jehenrik@MIT.EDU, winnt@MIT.EDU
From: "Paul B. Hill" <pbh@MIT.EDU>
Cc: winnt@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: <9710111713.AA09255@arachnophobia.MIT.EDU>
Hi,
Thanks for your input. We plan on restarting talks with Transarc about
licensing their NT AFS client. Unfortunately in previous discussions their
terms did not justify the cost. We also need to do further testing before
we would deploy the client. It would be very unfortunate if we deployed the
client only to find that users lost their data or that the AFS servers
could not handle the load, thereby making AFS inaccessible to all users.
The client does not work on 95. It is only supported on some versions of NT.
Paul
At 01:13 PM 10/11/97 EDT, you wrote:
>I realize that you have considered it, but I just thought
>I'd put in my vote for getting a site licence for NT AFS.
>I've wondered why we don't have it for a long time, but have
>not known who to talk about it. I just ran across
>web.mit.edu/is/help/winnt and I am sort of still wondering.
>I don't see what is so experimental about it since people
>(notably many) already run 95 and NT. (Is Transarc AFS
>offered on NT and _not_ on 95? It would keep oodles of
>people from using unauthenticated FTP to transfer files to
>and from their athena accounts. Granted, you can use
>Zmodem through HostExplorer, but who even _knows_ about
>that? I was recently shocked to realize how many people
>don't even understand authenticated telnet. Noone I talked
>to realized that FTP was also unauthenticated since
>ftp.dialup gives the message "user foo logged in with
>kerberos tickets."
>
>Generally, I just don't understand why it hasn't been here
>for a while. I would like to see the prices that justified
>site licencing MacOS 8 before NT AFS. As far as I can see,
>MacOS was a luxury. AFS is certanly a necessity.
>
>Sincerely,
>Jeff Henrikson '99
>
>
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