Mounting AFS as Volume on MacOSX

EASY WAY:

http://information-technology.web.cern.ch/services/fe/afs/howto/openafs-mac-os

Cyberduck SFTP client (free)

Both of these work, and both suck at times, particularly with large filesystems or slow internet. There's no good (free) solution here. But at least it's one up from a life of opening stuff in emacs. Sublime Text 2.

Links

• blog.philippklaus.de/blog/2011/07/17/sshfs-on-mac-os-x-10-6-8-with-fuse4x/
• http://fuse4x.github.com/
• http://superuser.com/questions/134140/mount-an-sshfs-via-macfuse-at-boot
• http://code.google.com/p/sshfs-gui/

Howto - BIT BROKEN, DON'T USE ME

[*TODO:* How to mount at startup]

[To be completed in more detail!]

• Install SSHFS and Fuse4x
• Make a dir to mount to
• Mount via commandline

#!/bin/bash
defaults write com.apple.desktopservices DSDontWriteNetworkStores true
mkdir /Volumes/AFS_User
sshfs <USERNAME>@lxplus.cern.ch: /Volumes/AFS_User -oauto_cache,allow_other,reconnect,volname=AFS_User,noappledouble

Current Issues:

• Xcode doesn't save files, instead deletes file! Use SublimeText instead
• Permissions gone awry - be careful! need to double check
• Can timeout and not save - make sure KeepAlive is enabled in /etc/ssh_config (see RobinKerberosTicketSetup)