Date: Fri, 2 Jul 110 00:03:39 -0700 (PDT) From: Jim Dennis <jimd@mistery.mcafee.com> To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu Cc: e9203125@pegasus.cpd.unb.br, questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Netware & Free Message-ID: <201007020703.AAA22912@mistery.mcafee.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.91.960701210411.228V-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu> from "Doug White" at Jul 1, 96 09:05:04 pm
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> > On Mon, 1 Jul 1996, Alex Antao wrote: > > > Where can I find a program that enable mount a directory on Unix for > > Netware 4.1 clients pc's ? > > Say what? > Mount a Netware disk on a Unix box? Nope. > Make a Unix box a Netware server? www.netcon.com. Alex, Do you mean to export part of your Unix filesystem to netware clients (such that they could access it using IPX client software) or do you mean to export it and have a Netware server mount it (so that it would appear as a netware volume on an existing server) or do you want to take a physical disk, with a netware filesystem on it and mount that under Unix, or do you want to mount a netware server/volume from your Unix box to allow users/processes on that host to access Netware stuff. There are many solutions to most of these scenarios -- some of them even overlap. The only one of these that is not possible (to my knowledge) is any sort of direct mounting of a Netware filesystem on a local physical drive -- Novell has been exceedingly protective of it's internal filesystem structures. Export Unix filesystem to Netware clients: Linux -- look for 'mars' in the Linux software map. Other brands (of *ix): see if there is a port of the Netware for Unix that is still available for your brand. Export Unix filesystem to Netware servers: By the NFS NLM package from Novell or the equivalent. Mount Netware filesystems under Unix directory tree: Linux -- look for 'ncpfs' (free) or get the Caldera CND (Network Desktop) distribution which includes bindery and NDS client support. The key developers at Caldera were engineers in the advanced research group at Novell before Ray Noorda left them. They have lots of info about the inner workings of NCP (netware core protocols) and the licenses to use that knowlege in Caldera's products. Caldera's team also contributed some of the IPX code back to the Linux community (in the spirit of the GPL under which they're using it) Use the NFS NLM package (so your netware server exports volumes under NFS protocols). Note that most of the free/low cost options are Linux-centric. Caldera desktop can be had for about $100 (US) -- and their big applications suites is less than $500 (comes with commercial spreadsheet (Nexus?), WordPerfect, and a load of other stuff that I don't use). I've got some people upstairs using ncpfs with moderate success (some complain that the performance seems lacking and they sometimes experience "glitches" -- but for convenient interactive use it seems to fill the bill (I just wouldn't try to use it in mission and time critical applications yet). One of my boxes runs Caldera. I've never had the slightest problem with access Netware file servers under it. I havent' tried any things special yet (re-exporting the mounted NCP directory via NFS for example) -- all I do is use scripts to copy files from the mount point to a staging area -- where rdist picks them up and distributes them to the FreeBSD servers. Jim Dennis, former System Administrator, McAfee Associates
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