Ok, ncpfs-2.2.0.19-2mdk.src.rpm is at ftp.linux-mandrake.com/incoming --- David Walser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > --- 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 >
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