The Windows workstations are full AFS clients, but nothing is command driven, unless you go through the NAL Unity Applications, Command Prompt or UNIX Utilities. These two applications open a window to a command prompt from which you can issue commands. You can change to an AFS drive (type K: or J: and press Enter) and navigate directories and run any of the AFS commands described above

However, you will probably choose to do AFS control from the main File menu. If you have used Windows computers before, you will not have seen AFS on the File menu before. It is a special customization that was done to make the Windows platform an AFS client in order to work within the campus Eos/Unity infrastructure.

Users of the Eos/Unity Windows platform are able to access and manipulate files in networked AFS space in the same way they are accustomed to working with files on Windows, which is usually from menus and dialog boxes. For example, the following figure shows a user's K: drive (home directory) selected. Selecting File -> AFS or right-clicking the icon and selecting AFS will bring up a menu with a number of AFS options.

Access Control List shows the access permissions on the folder/directory/drive selected. (Remember that in AFS, you set permissions on directories, not on individual files.) Selecting AFS -> Access Control Lists... for the K: drive brings up the following dialog box that shows the standard settings for a user's home directory. You can point and click to Add/ Remove people to the ACLs and grant or take away their access permissions. However, you would probably not give people access to your entire home directory but only to a subdirectory within it.

Select Help to bring up additional information about using Access Control Lists.

To check quota, select a folder or drive and right-click to bring up the AFS pop-up menu above and select Volume/Partition. You can exlore the other AFS options as you need them.

AFS Subtopics in this Guide

AFS Overview (main)
AFS Permissions
AFS PTS Groups
AFS on Windows

AFS File Sharing (in Guide, PDF)

Related Resources

AFS at NC State

Open AFS User Guide

Unity Windows

Definitions

access control list
AFS
partition
volume

see also

AFS Glossary

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