It turnes out that NCPFS does support IP. The version that comes
with SuSE 7.1 which is 2.2.0.18-5 does anyway. You just specify the
DNS Name or IP Address on the command line after -A and it uses UDP
instead of IPX.
ncpmount -A osu-fs05.cis.okstate.edu -S OSU-FS05 -U
joines.cis.evp.Okstate /osu-fs05
Jason Joines
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On Tuesday 17 July 2001 14:26, you wrote:
> I thought that Caldera's client did this... Is that not the case?
>
> Well, Novell's stance on this is that they are moving away from Mac
> and Unix clients for NetWare in favor of their new initiative of
> Native File Access. Effectively, this is going to mean that NetWare
> boxes are going to allow SMB access to their fileservers. This is
> great for those of us who use Samba and know it's strength in Unix,
> but it's depressing for those who understand F&P sharing using IPX vs
> SMB over TCP/IP. IPX had its problems, but it has always been
> lightning fast compared to it's SMB brother, at least when compared
> to an NT server. I haven't compared Linux to NetWare yet. We'll
> have to see how this turns out.
>
>
> John Voigt
> <jvoigt@osmre To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> .gov> cc:
> Subject: Re: IP NetWare
> Client for Linux
>
> Jason Joines appears to have said:
> > Does anyone know of a Linux NetWare client that supports
>
> authenticating
>
> > to NetWare 5.x NDS trees and mounting filesystems over IP?
> > I had used Caldera's client in the past but it ony runs over
> > IPX.
>
> This
>
> > is the only thing I have to solve before my organization would be
> > willing
>
> to
>
> > move from windows to Linux.
>
> I've had good results with the ipxutils and ncpfs packages. Check
> freshmeat.net and rpmfind.net. These work well with NetWare 4.11, I'm
> not sure about 5.x, but they may be worth a try. There are a couple
> of GUI-type frontends available too, but I don't know much about
> them, as I just use CLI.
>
>
>
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