Maybe I am missing the point, but why cannot you not continue to use
Samba over TCP/IP on the Win95 machines?
Graham...
Michael Jinks wrote:
>
> Graham wrote:
>
> > You need to take a look at the Netware Emulator MARS_NWE. The Win95 PCs
> > will need to have a Netware Client installed (either MS or Novell).
>
> Sigh. Been there, it didn't work. I followed all of the steps for setting up
> mars_nwe, up to the point of verifying that my /proc filesystem looked right,
> but whenever I had one of my NW-enabled Linux boxes look for available servers,
> it would only see itself (not the other IPX-enabled Linux box, not any of our NT
> servers that talk IPX, just itself, in spite of the fact that all of our Linux
> boxes connect beautifully over TCP/IP). That's why I was hoping somebody could
> provide me with a working example.
>
> Tried all of the frame types, too, and nothing made any difference.
>
> I already use SAMBA like crazy, but since we are doomed to using several Win95
> machines without the GUI, those machines can't run TCP/IP -- only IPX.
>
> >
> >
> > Alternatively you may be able to use SAMBA to export resource as Windows
> > Shares. I don't actually know if it is possible to run SAMBA over IPX.
>
> I would suspect so (Win95 has to share its drives somehow), but I think that
> would be redundant if I can get IPX to work at all.
>
> >
>
> >
> >
> > Anyway 2 things to take a look at, come back with any more specific
> > queries.
> >
> > Graham...
> >
> > Michael Jinks wrote:
> > >
> > > Several weeks ago I tried to get IPX working between a couple of RedHat
> > > boxes, and never had any luck. My /proc stuff and my kernel
> > > configuration all looked right, but I never could get two Linux boxes to
> > > talk over IPX (they did TCP/IP just fine). Now I'm trying again.
> > >
> > > I think that part of my problem is that the IPX HOWTO assumes that you
> > > know something about Novell (we don't have any Novell machines), so it
> > > leaves certain terms undefined or unexplained.
> > >
> > > I'm sure that somebody somewhere has a RedHat box which talks IPX, so
> > > whoever you are, would you mind helping me out with a copy of some
> > > config files? All I want is a working example to compare to the
> > > instructions.
> > >
> > > The whole reason for this is that we have a few win95 boxes which are
> > > committed to using only IPX, and right now we're setting up a Linux
> > > fileserver, so if we want it to be useful to the 95 machines, we have to
> > > be able to export resources ('drives' in the M$ world) _from_ the Linux
> > > machine to the 95 boxes over IPX.
> > >
> > > Thanks as always,
> > > m
> > >
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