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Instead of mounting the home cell's root.afs volume at the AFS mount point (typically /afs) a fake root is constructed from information available in the client's CellServDB.

-- Main.DerrickBrashear - 24 Jan 2002

A similar feature exists in the Windows clients, known as the FreelanceClient feature.  The technical details are available [[https://lists.openafs.org/pipermail/openafs-devel/2001-October/001927.html][here]].

-- Main.LeoShyhWeiLuan - 7 Feb 2002

On Unix this option is enabled by specifying =-dynroot= on the =afsd= command line.

On Windows add this DWORD to the registry:
=HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\TransarcAFSDaemon\Parameters\FreelanceClient=1= and create the file =%SystemRoot%\afsdns.ini= containing:
<pre>
[AFS Domain Name Servers]
ns1=your.ns.ip.here
</pre>
Then restart "IBM <nop>AFS Client" and the cells you touch get added to =%SystemRoot%\afs_freelance.ini=.

-- Main.TedAnderson - 19 Mar 2003