samba compile prob.

[Tom Vaughan]

Hans Insulander <hin at stacken.kth.se> writes:

> Tom Vaughan <tom at vaughan.to> writes:
> 
> > > > But, um, I'm a bit new to AFS. And somehow I find myself with a contract to
> > > > enable AFS support within Samba via arla. :) I take it this is still a
> > > > "work-in-progress"? Did the Samba folks use the Transarc stuff then? You
> > > > can, if you like, send me a patch or something of whatever you have and I
> > > > can try to get this to work. After all, I am getting paid for this. :)
> > > 
> > > Try using the Kerberos support in Samba instead. Dont enable Afs support,
> > > that is. It may sound strange but it works excellently due to kafs library
> > > in kth-krb. It actually works better (IMO).
> > 
> > Thanks! I trust that this will work, but could you please explain to this
> > poor idiot why this will work? Only so that I can explain it to others. Is
> > there an idiot's guide to AFS out there somewhere? Something with block
> > diagrams? Perhaps though I'm just trying to take the easy way out, and
> > should just read the long version. :) Thanks again!
> 
> Well, this works because of the kafs library in kth-krb, which includes
> the functions k_hasafs() and k_setpag() (amongst others) which are used
> in to support AFS. These functions are used in the kerberized login program
> as well as Samba and they are used to sort of take a kerberos ticket and
> "insert" them into the kernel so that it knows what credentials to present
> to the fileserver.
> 
> Libkafs is not dependant on AFS headers and libraries and detects AFS
> at runtime, and that's why i think it works better. For example, you can
> use the same Samba binaries on a system without AFS as on a system with AFS.

Excellent! Thanks!

-Tom

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Tom Vaughan <tom at vaughan dot to>