[Samba] Attaching to Netware-Server

[Buchan Milne]

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> Message: 10
> From: "Jurzitza, Dieter" <JurzitzaD at Becker.de>
> To: "'samba at lists.samba.org'" <samba at lists.samba.org>
> Date: Tue, 19 Nov 2002 07:36:33 +0100
> Subject: [Samba] Attaching to Netware-Server
>
> Dear listmembers,
> recently our sysadmin turned off the support for ipx-protocol. Since =
> then I
> found no way to mount my home-directory on the net (novell) on my linux =
> box.
> Using ipx, I had had the same servername etc) I found a lot of =
> discussions
> about the way vice versa, but no FM I could R to manage around this =
> issue
> (i.e. mounting a Netware volume on a linux box).
> Anybody out there having an idea on how to do that? I tried using mount =
> -t
> smbfs, but I always get a messagt that my user would not be known. =
> Hopefully
> this is not "off topic".


I think it is off topic, since you should use something like:

ncpmount -S <servername> -A <ip or server hostname> [-U <username>]
/mountpoint

The '-A <ip or hostname>' forces ncpfs to use IP instead of IPX.

Buchan

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