Re: Debian and Novell Netware

1999-05-05 Thread Robert King
I have had good success using the ncpfs to make my linux machine a client. I think the warnings are mostly about where you want to use the linux machine as a novell server rather than a client. The only problem is that the nw utilities in linux don't provide a warning during your grace logins

Re: Debian and Novell Netware

1999-05-05 Thread Paul Schwebel
Thanks for the feedback. I will try to test it out as soon as I can. On Mon, 3 May 1999, Paul Schwebel wrote: I am learning Debian/GNU Linux. I have a 2.0 install with ncpfs. I haven't actually used it, yet, because the disclaimers in the readme's refer to such things as potentially

Re: Debian and Novell Netware

1999-05-04 Thread Gregory T. Norris
In my (admittedly limited) experience Debian does just fine with Netware, provided that you stick with a 2.0.x series kernel. The 2.2.x series seems to have some very nasty problems with the IPX protocol (brings down just about everything on our network within moments, with a massive flood of

Debian and Novell Netware

1999-05-03 Thread Paul Schwebel
I am learning Debian/GNU Linux. I have a 2.0 install with ncpfs. I haven't actually used it, yet, because the disclaimers in the readme's refer to such things as potentially bringing the server down. I can't afford to do that in our live environment, and we don't yet have a good test environment.