On Fri, 10 Jan 2003, Gonzalo Servat wrote: > No directory services are required. *Just* file sharing (and printer > sharing if possible..)
Then this might help (from http://en.tldp.org/HOWTO/Networking-Overview-HOWTO-3.html): 3.3 IPX/SPX IPX/SPX (Internet Packet Exchange/Sequenced Packet Exchange) is a proprietary protocol stack developed by Novell and based on the Xerox Network Systems (XNS) protocol. IPX/SPX became prominent during the early 1980s as an integral part of Novell, Inc.'s NetWare. NetWare became the de facto standard network operating system (NOS) of first generation LANs. Novell complemented its NOS with a business-oriented application suite and client-side connection utilities. Linux has a very clean IPX/SPX implementation, allowing it to be configured as an: * IPX router * IPX bridge * NCP client and/or NCP Server (for sharing files) * Novell Print Client, Novell Print Server And to: * Enable PPP/IPX, allowing a Linux box to act as a PPP server/client * Perform IPX tunnelling through IP, allowing the connection of two IPX networks through an IP only link Additionally, Caldera offers commercial support for Novell NetWare under Linux. Caldera provides a fully featured Novell NetWare client built on technology licensed from Novell Corporation. The client provides full client access to Novell 3.x and 4.x fileservers and includes features such as NetWare Directory Service (NDS) and RSA encryption. * IPX HOWTO: http://metalab.unc.edu/mdw/HOWTO/IPX-HOWTO.html -=-=-==-=-=--=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Graeme Robinson - Graenet consulting www.graenet.com - internet solutions -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-==---=-=--=-=-= -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
