Re: ncpmount trouble

[tgray@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]

Thank you.  "/sbin/insmod ncpfs" did the trick.  I already had IPX 
loaded, and now I'm a pretty happy camper.  Right now I'm 
wondering if Wine will be able to run the administrator as Novell as 
has not see fit to provide a GUI admin tool for Linux, (unless you 
want to go to 5.1, but then it's browser based).  

It definitely sounds like something to try in a test-only environment 
though.  Wouldn't want to risk the Wine - NWAdmin32 interaction 
hosing out the NDS, I'm pretty sure that would honk off my 
colleagues something awful.  

Aside to Mr. Zimmerman comments:
Yes, the Novell/Linux integration is an interest of mine also, as 
there are services that Linux can provide to Netware that Novell 
makes you pay through the nose for.  It's been a pretty quiet topic 
(An article or two about something Novell is *planning* to do to 
embrace Linux and OSS... but never anything concrete.)

If anyone has already covered any ground, let me know okay?  I'm 
just beginning down this road, so any heads-up on the nasty 
potholes would be a good thing.

On 31 Mar 2000, David Zeitler <zeitler@corecomm.net> wrote: 


> tgray@adacplastics.com wrote:
> > 
> > I am trying to get my Linux box to access the Netware volumes at
> > work.
> > 
> > when I type:
> > 
> > ncpmount -S [servername] -U [username] /novellmounttest
> > 
> > I get the following error:
> > 
> > ncpmount:  Cannot assign requested addresss when trying to find
> > [servername]
> > 
> > I am running on Mandrake 7.0-2, and IPX is installed and
> > configured.  I have no idea on how to test if it is working though.
> > "If you don't think life is interesting, you're not paying enough
> > attention." me, 1987-ish. --Tim Gray
> 
> Do an lsmod and be sure you have ncpfs loaded. When I did
> the setup, it didn't 
> handle modification of startup scripts correctly. I now have
> the following lines
> in my /etc/rc.d/rc.local file.
> 
> # Start ncp filesystem           
> /sbin/insmod ncpfs              
> ipx_interface add -p eth0 802.2 
> 
> 
> -- 
> David Zeitler
> zeitler@corecomm.net
> http://www.corecomm.net/~zeitler
> 
> 


"If you don't think life is interesting,
you're not paying enough attention." me, 1987-ish.
--Tim Gray