So, you can’t run the Dropbox client from an AFS volume, which makes my dream of a home AFS cell slightly more remote. However, looking through the Dropbox forums, you can run Dropbox from a networked AFP home directory. While I don’t want to separate my data in that way, I could run most things from AFS, other than our user home directories. This makes life slightly confusing, but it could work.

The real trick is making AFS home directories appear on my Linux/Unix nodes, and AFP shares appear on the Macs. If that doesn’t work, I’ll have to set the Macs to use local home folders… and that leads to confusion as well.