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AFS

AFS is a wide area network filesystem designed to provide secure access to your data from any computer. AFS is great for collaborating on projects, or as a cost-effective replacement for a departmental fileserver. AFS is now available as a recharge service from IST at a monthly rate of $0.51 per GB.

AFS provides:

• Access to files from anywhere
• CalNet authentication
• Encryption of data over the network
• Fine grained permission control

We offer several ways to access your data:

• Native AFS Client
  This is the preferred way to access your files; it is the fastest and you have full access to all of the features of AFS.
• Filedrawers
  Filedrawers is a web application that will work from any web browser. It is slower than using the AFS client, but still allows you to change permissions.
• WebDAV
  This will let you browse your folders using the Mac OS X Finder or Windows Explorer. It is slower than the native client, and can't be used to change permissions, but may be useful when the native client is not appropriate.
• Web Sites
  You can create a web site and publish it through AFS.

To learn more, please browse our documentation. To order this service, complete the online form.

Questions about this service can be directed to afs-admins@lists.berkeley.edu.