FYI:
 
 A group of people here at Notre Dame have successfully mounted AFS (Andrew
File System - a distributed file system using encrypted tokens that DCE/DFS
is modeled after in construction) on our HP 3000 test machine running MPE 5.0.
 
We used Quest's NFS CLIENT demo (not server) to mount an NFS-to-AFS
translator used for (up to this point) for PCNFS-to-AFS access on our Sun
Sparc workstation (which is an AFS client).
 
The rest is history.  We can read/write to AFS file space from our HP 3000
machine under AFS file security - through a translator Sun workstation.
Below is a sample directory cut and paste from our hp 3000 test machine.
The files listed are my files used to construct my home Web page (listed in
the sig and can be accessed via Internet) that reside in my AFS file space.
We have trouble with some big files, but Quest is looking into it.  It's not
all that clean yet.  But anyway,
 
The magic of all this revolves around setting the HP UID correctly:
 
ALTUSER ERIC.NETBASE;UID=1234 for example,
 
to match my AFS UID.
 
  The AFS file system works with a Kerberos token, so before I could
actually read/write to my AFS file space, I had to issue a kerberos command
on the translator to obtain and associate an NFS UID with a kerberos token
(generated from AFS authentication server).  This token expires daily, then
I'll need to do it again (or chron job it).
 
 But the association by UID between MPE/NFS/AFS  make it all
happen.  It's uncanny to run vi on a file in AFS space while logged on as an
HP user using WRQ NS/open.
 
shell/iX> cd /NETBASE
 
shell/iX> ls
ARCHIVE  COMP     DUMP     HPUX     JOELNET  NB       QUEUE    USL
CAT      DATA     ERICNET  IPC      LIB      NFSDATA  SOURCE   afs
CATSRC   DOC      HPUSL    JOB      LOG      PUB      UPDATE
 
<note: Local directory "afs" was created and mounted to Sparc AFS translator
for this test using ix NFS command:  mount >
 
shell/iX> cd afs/userxx/eschuber/www
 
<note:  path into AFS file space, my AFS files for my home Web page>
 
shell/iX> ls
 
CorpGopher.html  httpupt.gif      3.gif            gopherdb.html
wwwcorp.gif      hpserver.gif     4.gif            fromhp
index.html       cgicobol.html    5.gif            xxx.test
webproxy.gif     1.gif            6.gif
webgoph.gif      2.gif            corpgweb.html
 
shell/iX>
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P.S. the "fromhp" text file was copied from HP 3000 to AFS file space.  It
works both ways.
 
Any comments welcome!
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Eric J. Schubert                 Administrative Information Services
Senior Data Base Analyst         University of Notre Dame, IN USA
 
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