ncpfs without IPX?
I want to try and get a way for linux users on our campus to connect
to the Novell network. I know that one should be able to do it using
the ncpfs with a kernel compiled with ipx-options. The problem is
that the people administrating the Novell network is busy phasing out
the ipx-protocol.
In the Debian-readme that comes with ncpfs I read the following:
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The ncpfs package contains the userland utilites needed to mount/unmount
NCP file systems and several other utilities. The utilities here will
work with 2.0.x, 2.1.x, 2.2.x, 2.3.x and 2.4.x kernels. On 2.0.x kernels,
you can use only NCP over IPX. On 2.[123].x kernels you can use NCP over
either IPX or UDP. On 2.4.x kernels you can use NCP over any of IPX,
UDP or TCP.
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On the basis of the last sentence, I tried compiling kernel 2.4.6
without ipx-capabilities but I could not so far successfully connect
to a novell server. Has anybody used the ncpfs-utilities without IPX
successfully?
Johann
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