--- Buchan Milne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, 16 Nov 2002, David Walser wrote: > > > Ha!!! Got it working on the ones on an internal > > network! By using the -A option, and giving it > the > > DNS name of the fileserver, it works! > > Of course, this means you are doing ncp over IP, > rather than over IPX. If
Yeah. Is that bad? > you *really* want to use IPX, you would need some > sort of ipx routing on > your NAT machine (ipxripd apparently works quite Thanks. > well). In fact, I haven't > used IPX since I haven't bothered to setup IPX > routing on our firewall, so > I use (when I *really* have to) ncp over IP. > > > I'll let you know if it works from my 2.2.0.19 > package > > when I get around to fixing that symlink. > > > > Question for you though: would it be OK for me to > > have it install ncpmount and ncpumount SUID root > since > > that's the only way they're useful? > > The samba package has done this with smbmnt and > smbumount for quite a Yeah I noticed that, so I figured it was OK. > while ... of course, usually netware servers are not > as common, so it may > be more worthwhile to setup pam_mount, but I am not > sure if you can pass > the '-A hostname' option via pam_mount. You can, but the problem here is, it's not one NCP share that everybody mounts, it's a different share for everybody. Thank you so much for the response Buchan! __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Web Hosting - Let the expert host your site http://webhosting.yahoo.com
