I too have been struggling to make head or tail of the coda system.  I've 
been adding to the wiki where I've worked things out.

On Fri, 25 May 2007, Davor Ocelic wrote:

> Actually I think that venus-setup is shipped with Debian GNU packages,

Nope:
njh_at_flobber:~/coda$ dpkg -L coda-client | grep venus-setup
njh_at_flobber:~/coda$

> No, cfs lv is just a convenient way to contact the remote server and
> make it appear as a directory inside /coda/, such as
> cfs lv /coda/testserver.cs.cmu.edu . (The "testserver.cs.cmu.edu"
> appearing in /coda/ after you run that command is a convenient
> side-effect, and has nothing to do with mounting).
>
> cfs mkm and rmm are the actual "mounting" commands, even though you
> might know that they are very different from the Unix/NFS/Samba style of
> mounting.

But I can read and write to my server just by running
cfs lv ...
then
clog me_at_server

njh