--- 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!

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