can anyone walk me through, line by line, how to set up my S drive on my 'pooter?

If you are looking for a secure (i.e. non-plaintext password) connection to your AFS account, you can use the same free software as the school by copying it from the installation folder on any campus build. You need the IBM AFS client and MIT Kerberos.

However if you are using Windows XP SP2, that software is not compatable and you need to use MIT Kerberos For Windows 2.6.4 and the OpenAFS for windows client 1.3.7100
I've also found a program called Wake 2.5 very helpful and makes everything work.

there are a few quirks, such as clock skew, which requires setting your system clock 1 hour back to log in to Kerberos.

Hope this helps for all the folks who don't like sending passwords clear-text over the network.

or skip all that headache and ftp into your account with SFTP (Secure FTP), that way if you ever go off campus, no changes need to be made.

Woot, I wrote that webpage when I was working for the helpdesk. By now, it probably isn't valid. Knowing the helpdesk, they probably invalidated that page with all of the security updates they did. They had a really poor web page updating structure..

Not yet. I think they're planning on doing away w/ samba entirely, but they haven't gotten around to it yet.

couldnt they just start using encrypted passwords? none of the campus machines have win9x anymore, why must we use plain text passwords?