-## <a name="Where to get AFS"></a> Where to get AFS
-
-<table border="1" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0">
- <tr>
- <th bgcolor="#99CCCC"><strong> Package </strong></th>
- <th bgcolor="#99CCCC"><strong> HTTP/FTP </strong></th>
- <th bgcolor="#99CCCC"><strong> AFS </strong></th>
- </tr>
- <tr>
- <td>[[IBM/AFS]]</td>
- <td colspan="2"> Discontinued. </td>
- </tr>
- <tr>
- <td>[[OpenAFS]]</td>
- <td><a href="http://www.openafs.org/release/latest.html" target="_top">http://www.openafs.org/release/latest.html</a></td>
- <td><a href="file:///afs/openafs.org/software/openafs/" target="_top">/afs/openafs.org/software/openafs</a></td>
- </tr>
- <tr>
- <td>[[Arla]]</td>
- <td><a href="http://www.stacken.kth.se/projekt/arla/" target="_top">http://www.stacken.kth.se/projekt/arla/</a></td>
- <td><a href="file:///afs/stacken.kth.se/ftp/pub/arla/" target="_top">/afs/stacken.kth.se/ftp/pub/arla/</a></td>
- </tr>
-</table>
-
-## <a name="What to do next?"></a> What to do next?
-
-- [[InstallOpenAFSClient]]
-- [[AFS Quick Start Guide for UNIX|AFSQuickStartGuideForUNIX]]
-- [[Example USS Templates|ExampleUSSTemplates]]
-- [AFS intro doc at Stanford](http://www.stanford.edu/services/afs/intro/)
-- [AFS into at IBM developerworks](http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/opensource/library/os-openafs-kerberos5/index.html)
-
--- [[JeffreyHutzelman]] - 18 Jan 2002<br /> -- [[TedAnderson]] - 11 Apr 2002<br /> -- [[TWikiGuest]] - 24 Apr 2004
-
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-
-See: [[FrequentlyAskedQuestions]]
+This page provides information and tips to get started setting up OpenAFS
+clients and servers. Read the [OpenAFS documentation](http://docs.openafs.org/)
+for detailed instructions for installing and configuring OpenAFS.
+
+[[!toc levels=3]]
+
+## Planning ##
+
+This section outlines some considerations when planning a new OpenAFS
+installation.
+
+### Servers ###
+
+An OpenAFS installation requires one or more servers for file storage. These
+may be physical or virtual machines, running a unix-like operating system, such
+as Solaris, Linux, *BSD. Not all the servers for a site need to be running the
+same architecture and operating system, and it is not uncommon to have a
+mixture of file servers running different operating systems or versions. Each
+file storage servers should have one or more partitions for storage. The files
+stored on these servers can only be accessed using a machine running the AFS
+client software.
+
+The file server machines must support IPv4 and may have multiple interfaces.
+By default, OpenAFS will try to use all the non-loopback interfaces available
+on a file server machine. A configuration can be used to set which addresses
+are actually reachable by clients.
+
+In addition to the file servers, OpenAFS provides a specialized lookup service
+for AFS clients and file servers, the so called AFS database servers. In a
+recommended configuration, a set of three dedicated machines, physical or
+virtual, are setup as AFS database servers. It is important to have good
+availability of the hosts running the database service, and ideally, the IP
+addresses of these hosts should be changed infrequently.
+
+OpenAFS file servers and database servers are administratively grouped into a
+collection called a 'cell'. By convention, a cell name matches an internet
+domain name registered by the organization running the AFS cell. An
+organization may have multiple cells.
+
+### Kerberos ###
+
+OpenAFS uses Kerberos v5 to authenticate users and processes accessing files in
+the AFS filesystem, and to authenticate administrators when running
+administrative commands. This security model avoids trusting the client machines
+for user authentication, even if a user is becomes 'root' on a client.
+
+A Kerberos v5 realm needs to be available before setting up OpenAFS. An
+existing Kerberos realm can be used or a new realm will need to be setup.
+Kerberos 5 implementations such as Active Directory, MIT Kerberos V, or Heimdal
+are commonly used. For compatibility with older versions of AFS, OpenAFS
+includes a deprecated, Kerberos 4 implementation called `kaserver`. You may
+see it mentioned in various older how-to guides, however `kaserver` should not
+be used for new installations of OpenAFS.
+
+### Time Synchronization ###
+
+Kerberos requires servers and clients to have good clock synchronization,
+using `ntp` or some other synchronization mechanism. Be sure ntp is installed
+and working on every machine to be used as an OpenAFS client or server.
+
+
+### Firewalls ###
+
+Todo
+
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