Template: openafs-client/cell-info Type: string _Description: DB server host names for your home cell: AFS uses the file /etc/openafs/CellServDB to hold the list of servers that should be contacted to find parts of a cell. The cell you claim this workstation belongs to is not in that file. Enter the host names of the database servers separated by spaces. IMPORTANT: If you are creating a new cell and this machine is to be a database server in that cell, only enter this machine's name; add the other servers later after they are functioning. Also, do not enable the AFS client to start at boot on this server until the cell is configured. When you are ready you can edit /etc/openafs/afs.conf.client to enable the client. Template: openafs-client/thiscell Type: string _Description: AFS cell this workstation belongs to: AFS filespace is organized into cells or administrative domains. Each workstation belongs to one cell. Usually the cell is the DNS domain name of the site. Template: openafs-client/cachesize Type: string Default: 50000 _Description: Size of AFS cache in kB: AFS uses an area of the disk to cache remote files for faster access. This cache will be mounted on /var/cache/openafs. It is important that the cache not overfill the partition it is located on. Often, people find it useful to dedicate a partition to their AFS cache. Template: openafs-client/run-client Type: boolean Default: true _Description: Run Openafs client now and at boot? Normally, most users who install the openafs-client package expect AFS to be mounted automatically at boot. However, if you are planning on setting up a new cell or are on a laptop, you may not want it started at boot time. If you choose not to start AFS at boot, run service openafs-client force-start to start the client when you wish to run it. Template: openafs-client/afsdb Type: boolean Default: true _Description: Look up AFS cells in DNS? In order to contact an AFS cell, you need the IP addresses of the cell's database servers. Normally, this information is read from /etc/openafs/CellServDB. However, if Openafs cannot find a cell in that file, it can use DNS to look for AFSDB records that contain the information. Template: openafs-client/crypt Type: boolean Default: true _Description: Encrypt authenticated traffic with AFS fileserver? AFS provides a weak form of encryption that can optionally be used between a client and the fileservers. While this encryption is weaker than DES and thus is not sufficient for highly confidential data, it does provide some confidentiality and is likely to make the job of a casual attacker significantly more difficult. Template: openafs-client/dynroot Type: select __Choices: Yes, Sparse, No Default: Yes _Description: Dynamically generate the contents of /afs? /afs generally contains an entry for each cell that a client can talk to. Traditionally, these entries were generated by servers in the client's home cell. However, OpenAFS clients can generate the contents of /afs dynamically based on the contents of /etc/openafs/CellServDB and DNS. . If you generate /afs dynamically, you may need to create /etc/openafs/CellAlias to include aliases for common cells. (The syntax of this file is one line per alias, with the cell name, a space, and then the alias for that cell.) . The Sparse option is the same as Yes except that, rather than populating /afs from /etc/openafs/CellServDB immediately, cells other than the local cell will not appear until they are accessed. Cell aliases as set in the CellAlias file are shown as normal, although they may appear to be dangling links until traversed. Template: openafs-client/fakestat Type: boolean Default: true _Description: Use fakestat to avoid hangs when listing /afs? Because AFS is a global file space, operations on the /afs directory can generate significant network traffic. If some AFS cells are unavailable then looking at /afs using ls or a graphical file browser may hang your machine for minutes. AFS has an option to simulate answers to these operations locally to avoid these hangs. You want this option under most circumstances.