From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Nov 13 6:34: 9 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3F91E37B401 for ; Wed, 13 Nov 2002 06:34:08 -0800 (PST) Received: from hub.org (hub.org [64.49.215.141]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F32C343E75 for ; Wed, 13 Nov 2002 06:34:07 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from scrappy@hub.org) Received: from hub.org (hub.org [64.49.215.141]) by hub.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 274F68A8B17 for ; Wed, 13 Nov 2002 10:33:58 -0400 (AST) Date: Wed, 13 Nov 2002 10:33:57 -0400 (AST) From: "Marc G. Fournier" To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Linux better for desktop computing in heterogenous environments? Message-ID: <20021113102726.K20557-100000@hub.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG G'day ... You know that I'm frustrated when I even mumble those 5 letters, but there it is ... I'm currently trying to spear-head moving ~400 laptops that are used by the CompSci department at the local University from Linux to FreeBSD, and, so far, have been able to do everything they require except for one crucial thing ... get the ncp* stuff to work ... First and foremost, does anyone know of any good documentation on this, specifically setting it up ... all the documentation that I can find refers to using IPX, yet the man page(s) talk about being able to use the -A option to do UDP instead ... If I do: ncplogin -A -U -T I get back: ncplogin: no default connection found: syserr = Bad file descriptor But searching Google, I can't seem to find anything that indicates what I may have setup wrong ... I've been plugging away at this, on and off, for several weeks now, and from what I can tell, its the last requirement that I have to fulfill ... a pointer to a doc about this would be great ... The OS is 4.7-STABLE from Nov 7th ... Thanks ... To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message