[ILUG] novell 4.11 and linux clients

[Niall Sheridan]

> Hello!
>
> I have a mixed network environment, Novell NetWare and Debian GNU/Linux
> file servers, Windows & linux clients. The Samba fileserver works
> as expected, linux and windows users can browse the shares etc.
> The problem is with the novell server & linux clients.
> I followed everything as written down in the IPX-HOWTO and NAG/2
> (the same content). I configured the kernel for IPX support,
> installed the essential packages (eg.: ncpfs). I tried to mount a share
> on the Novell fileserver from the linux client as follows:
> ncpmount -S SERVERNAME -U user ~/novell - it says theres no such user
> in NDS (-601)
> When I tried to use
> ncpmount -S SERVERNAME -U user.tech ~/novell , it says the the password
> what I gave after the password prompt is invalid (-691). I changed the
> password to make sure I just type the right password. But got the same
> error message. Any ideas? After tried the username and the
username.context
> I gave up. But it should work somehow and I don't know why it doesn't.
> If somebody had the same problem tell me how solved this, please.
> groups.google.com just pointed to a list of Novell problem numbers and
> to messages which told me to use the ncpmount as I wrote down above.

You need a ~/.nwclient with the following information:
the username (and context)
the server name
an optional password.
Unfortunately, the exact order escapes me.

I think the file needs to be chmod 0600 too.
More information in the manpage for ncpmount or nwclient.

The -S specifies a server in the .nwclient file, so you can specify multpile
servers to authenticate against.

> Bye,
> Ago