The campus DNS servers are getting an update in the next few days, which will include changing the way that AFS clients look up information about the AFS cell database servers from DNS. All AFS clients released for the last several years know how to query DNS in the new way, so we do not expect to have problems, with one exception: Any client configured to use an EMPTY CellServDB file, will NOT be able to automatically locate the authentication (kaserver) server, and so won't be able to authenticate. At one point I was recommending this configuration to Mac users, since it removes the dependency on a local configuration file, but since every Mac client release replaces that file with a new version, I doubt if many clients are still configured that way. Windows clients are very unlikely to have been set up this way, so should not have a problem. If anyone has a problem authenticating, please contact Research Computing for instructions on fixing the problem. We will be releasing a script to automate the process. Authentication can also be done at the command line, explicitly specifying the authentication server to use, by opening a Terminal window and running: klog AFSUSERNAME -servers halley.dartmouth.edu - and replace AFSUSERNAME with the appropriate name. Richard -- Richard Brittain, Research Computing Group, Computing Services, 37 Dewey Field Road, HB6219 Dartmouth College, Hanover NH 03755 [log in to unmask] 6-2085