On Fri, 10 Jan 2003, Gonzalo Servat wrote:
> I'm unfortunate enough to get stuck with a project to turn a Linux box into
> some sort of NetWare Server.
>
> There doesn't seem to be a whole lot of options to accomplish this. From my
> research, I've only found mars_nwe & lwared and both seem to be abandoned
> projects.
>
> Anyway, mars_nwe is supposed to work so I'll stick to that (plus it has a
> few more features than lwared -- if it worked!)
>
> mars_nwe is not well documented so I was hoping someone who has used it
> could explain what sort of Novell client software I need to run to test it,
> and also a sample nwserv.conf file would be good too.
>
> Also, they talk about "slist.exe" and "login.exe" programs that need to be
> in /etc/opt/SYS/login but I would imagine these programs come from the
> Novell software, which I have no access to.
> The authors of mars_nwe provide a package called mars_dosutils which is a
> free alternative to slist.exe and login.exe, however, from google'ing
> around you need Borland C to compile the source code (another program I
> don't have).
Don't use MARS - you can download a Netware 4 emnulator which is much more
reliable and robust from the net - last time I looked, it was free for use
up to 3 concurrent connections.
The utilities you refer to are indeed Novell utilities, and are part of
the Novell installation - and, AFAIK, you can't just download them from
anywhere - they're included in the distribution archive. If you've got
another Novell server, you can copy them off it onto your emulated server
- but make sure you use programs from a simmilar version of Novell
{MARS_NWE emulated Novell 3.x - ergo, you have to copy the utilities from
a version 3.x server}.
You absolutely need the following directories off the Novell servers to
make it work
SYS:LOGIN
SYS:PUBLIC
SYS:SYSTEM
Note that you won't be able to copy SOME files from these directories -
just get everything you can.
if you don't have another server you can copy it from, you're shit outa
luck, I'm afraid.
DaZZa
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