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NCSA Windows 9x AFS Installation/Upgrade Guide

This document is for installing or upgrading the AFS client on machines running Windows 95, 98, and ME in the NCSA environment. Please read through these instructions once before installing AFS so you are familiar with some of the setup options. You will need to have admin access on the machine when running the setup program. If there are any questions or problems with this document, or an installation, then please contact afs@ncsa.uiuc.edu. Installing this software will require you to reboot your machine after the installation.

Warning - Windows ME users

We have not tested this software with Windows ME. If you have a Windows ME box and attepmt to install this software please email afs@ncsa.uiuc.edu with the results.

Previous Version of AFS Client

If you have a earlier version of the AFS client installed, you should be able to install the newest version over the old one. If you run into strange problems please try unistalling AFS Light before running the installer again. If you have already installed an earlier version of the client you can follow the install instructions up to the "Configuring the Client" section to upgrade.

Uninstalling a previous client:

In Control Panel folder start the "Add/Remove Programs" file. In the list of software find the "AFS Light 3.x" (Where x is the version you have installed), select it and then click on the "Add/Remove..." button. When this is done it will prompt you to reboot the machine. Go ahead and reboot. You should now be able to install the 3.5 client below.

Installing the Client

The AFS NT Client software is located in the following directory on the NCSA file-server:
  \\File-server\Software-PC\Supported Software\AFS Client
If you cannot access this directory then please send mail to afs@ncsa.uiuc.edu. NCSA has a site license for our Windows clients so the above directory on the file-server should be available to all NCSA users.

There are several folders in the AFS Client folder:

AFS Client folder

The only thing in here you should be interested in is the Current release shortcut. We create a new one everytime we get a updated client from IBM so it always points to the folder containing the latest client.

Once in that directory there is an executable called setup.exe. Run that file and it will begin the afs installation.

The installation is pretty straight forward. The only option you have to choose is what components you want installed. Just select the AFS Light Client (the only available choice currently):

AFS Components

If you want to install it in a directory other than the default, then you can select Browse... to set the path. Otherwise select Next > and it will install the client.

Once it is installed it prompts you if you want to reboot the machine, select Finish to reboot.

If this was an upgrade, and not an initial install of the 3.6 client, then you will not have to do any more configuration and are done.

Configuring the Client

Once the computer comes back up, the AFS Light client will now be installed. It will then prompt you to configure the AFS Light Client. You will need to run the AFS Light Client in the Control Panel. Start -> Settings -> Control Panel, then select AFS Light Configuration.

AFS Light Configuration

In the General section of the AFS Light Configuration, put in AFS as the "Gateway". Also make sure that the "Obtain AFS tokens..." is NOT checked. Once this is done then you can click on the "Connect Now" button.

With the AFS Light client running, you can now set up drive letters to mount paths in AFS. Select the "Drive Letters" tab and select "Add...". If you had a previously installed AFS Light client you may already have drives mapped. If they are set up correclty then you are done with this section. Otherwise continue with the following.

AFS Light Map Drive Letter

In the "Map Drive Letter" window select a "Drive Letter" and an "AFS Path". You can add a "Description" if you like. If this is going to be a drive mapping you will always want, then make sure the "Restore this mapping whenever I logon" is checked. After you have added a couple of mappings your Drive Letters section should look like:

AFS Light Drive mappings

Here I have mapped /afs/.ncsa.uiuc.edu to drive G: (The AFS Read/Write Path) and the Read Only path to: /afs/ncsa.uiuc.edu/ to drive H:.

Getting AFS Tokens

You will not get a token when logging into your system. Please refer to the Getting an AFS token on Windows document to learn how to get an AFS token.

Note:
If you had a previous version of AFS installed on your machine be sure to check the above web page to make sure you are using the correct version of the Kerberos distribution. Earlier versions will not work with the 3.6 AFS client.

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