Freelance mode should be disabled when the AFS Client Service is installed on the same machine as the AFS Server,. Otherwise, it will be impossible to manipulate the contents of the root.afs volume for the hosted cell without constructing an explicit mountpoint to the root.afs volume from another volume.

The AFS Server and related tools only support the built in kaserver (Kerberos IV). If kaserver is being used, MIT Kerberos for Windows should not be installed or must be disabled via the EnableKFW registry value.

The AFS Servers are not aware of power management events nor are they aware of network configuration changes. It is strongly advised that the AFS servers be installed only on systems that will not be shutdown or suspended unexpectedly. An inadvertent shutdown will corrupt volume data.