Coda File System

Re: New cell/server setup

From: Ivan Popov <pin_at_medic.chalmers.se>
Date: Mon, 12 Jul 2004 09:46:51 +0200
On Sun, Jul 11, 2004 at 12:20:59AM -0500, Troy Benjegerdes wrote:
> I've gone through vice-setup, but the documentation seems to be pretty
> stale on how to get a new cell (let's say 'hozed.org') to show up.
> 
> I see mention of DNS SRV records and such, but is this new cell setup
> documented anywhere?

Hello Troy,

once you got your first server running

you should be able to access your realm from any client in several ways
(and even via several names/paths, which is evil and not supposed
to be used for more that troubleshooting)

The "supposed" ways:

The normal one:
/coda/<dns-srv-record-explained-elsewhere>/.....

(see http://www.coda.cs.cmu.edu/maillists/codalist/codalist-2004/6371.html,
though the html-ization has broken Jan's example...)

When you cannot acquire an srv record:
/coda/<coda-server-fqdn>/.....

The "avoidable" ways:
/coda/<coda-server-ip-number>/.....
/coda/<coda-server-name-mentioned-in-etc-hosts-on-client>/.....
/coda/<name-from-"realms"-file-on-the-client>/.....

Of course you will have to
 - authenticate yourself
 - put files there
before you can see anything more that an empty directory

Note that "ls /coda" will not show you anything until you explicitely
access en existing realm.

Regards,
--
Ivan
Received on 2004-07-12 03:48:48