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To: geer@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
Subject: Documents for Consultants
Cc: kevles@ATHENA.MIT.EDU

Dan - I'm looking for intermediate level technical documents, suitable
for reading by a consultant-in-training, later in his or her training
period.  You can assume a good, but not perfect, understanding of how to
use certain commands and their flags, such as attach and attach -n, but
not always an understanding of why these things work the way they do.

It's also important that these documents be no-too-long.  I would guess
that 5 pages would be an upper-bound for each, since anything above that
is likely to get too technical, and more importantly, look daunting to
a CIT who's got a million things to learn about Athena.

The documents I need include the following:

An overview of the client-server model, with examples from X, zephyr, and
olc.

How kerberos works.

The different kinds of file servers, how they compare and contrast.

A complete response to this question that we frequently get from users:
	"I can't login.  It can't attach my files."
Including reference to kerberos, timeouts, networks, fileservers, and the
fact that the user HAS logged in. (We get this questions, verbatim, in
olc all the time.)

These documents would go a long way towards helping to train new consultants.
Thanks very, very much for helping with this.  I'm very grateful for any of
these that you'll have time to write for us.

Please point me to the source for any complete, or partially complete,
documents.  In this way, I'll be able to arrange for updates as necessary.

Thanks again!
--Beth Kevles