On Wed, 21 Jun 2000, Michael Lake wrote:
> > I believe you can add products like Netware Connect to enable it, but good
> > luck getting your IS department to add them to a production server. Even
> > then, I'm not sure if it's going to give you access to the filesystem -
> > usually it'll only give you access to the console - a vastly different
> > thing on a Novell server.
>
> I am not sure what this means? Whats the diff between a
> Novel `console' and a terminal on Linux or other UNIX
> system? Specifically with regards to say running "tar xvf
> homepage.tar"
On Netware, the console has only limited access to the filesystem - and
only for server specific tasks, like loading an additional module. Think
of the Novell console as being a manual version of the kernel module
loader - you can, to some extent, control user activity {you can see who
is connected, you can kick them off, you can check a few other things},
but it's mainly used for administering the OS, rather than the user
environment. You can also perform tasks related to the OS administration
{note - NOT the user environment on the server}.
It's not like Linux, or even NT {spew} where you can just logon to the
console and do your thing. There's no option to run "user" programs on the
console - Novell is not an application server.
> > Alternately, you could try and remote mount the Netware volume on your
> > Linux box, and then simply use the good old CP command. I've never done
> > this, but I understand it's possible.
>
> The sysadmin mentioned this. He said it does impact on the
> server performance and there are security issues. He's
> rather not do an NFS serve.
It's not NFS - it's called something else, but I can't remember what. Oh,
you can get NFS for Netware, and it works quite well - but thast wasn't
what I was talking about.
I'd reckon your best bet would be to get the Novell client from Caldera,
and go with that. You'll have to add IPX support to your kernel as well.
DaZZa
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