It appears that the ncpfs that ships with SuSE 9.1 (ncpfs-2.2.4-20) appears to be broken. All of my use involved connecting to a NetWare 5.1 server over TCP/IP using an NDS account. The objective was to mount the "server" (mount all volumes on it under one mount point, as is supposed to happen if you do not specify a volume). Here are the symptoms I see with it: 1) If you specify the server you want to mount (-S) and the IP name of the server (-A) to be servers that do not hold replicas of your account, then the mount fails with an "All referrals failed" message. 2) If the server you want to mount does not have a replica of your account but you specify a server with the -A parameter that does have a replica of our account, then the mount succeeds but only the SYS volumes gets mounted. 3) If you get the src rpm that ships with SuSE9.1 and remove all patches except for the one that modifies Makefile.in, then rebuild the RPM and install it, then it works as advertised and you can mount a server fine (all the volumes get mounted) even if it does not hold a replica. Has anyone else used ncpfs on SuSE 9.1 to do something similar ? Thanks in advance for any more information, -- --Moby They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. -- Benjamin Franklin First they came for the Jews and I did not speak out because I was not a Jew. Then they came for the Communists and I did not speak out because I was not a Communist. Then they came for the trade unionists and I did not speak out because I was not a trade unionist. Then they came for me and there was no one left to speak out for me. -- Pastor Martin Niemöller
On Monday 17 May 2004 23:55, Mobeen Azhar wrote:
3) If you get the src rpm that ships with SuSE9.1 and remove all patches except for the one that modifies Makefile.in, then rebuild the RPM and install it, then it works as advertised and you can mount a server fine (all the volumes get mounted) even if it does not hold a replica.
Has anyone else used ncpfs on SuSE 9.1 to do something similar ?
Pretty funny, Novell owns them and all of a sudden NCPFS is broke... skuze me while find my tin foil hat... -- _____________________________________ John Andersen
I take my previous testing data back :P ncpfs is broken no matter what you do. I can get it to work about one in fifty times, regardless of whether I back out of the SuSE patches to ncpfs or not. So, as matters stand, ncpfs on SuSE 9.1 is not letting me mount a NetWare server using an NDS account. --Moby They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. -- Benjamin Franklin First they came for the Jews and I did not speak out because I was not a Jew. Then they came for the Communists and I did not speak out because I was not a Communist. Then they came for the trade unionists and I did not speak out because I was not a trade unionist. Then they came for me and there was no one left to speak out for me. -- Pastor Martin Niemöller --Moby They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. -- Benjamin Franklin First they came for the Jews and I did not speak out because I was not a Jew. Then they came for the Communists and I did not speak out because I was not a Communist. Then they came for the trade unionists and I did not speak out because I was not a trade unionist. Then they came for me and there was no one left to speak out for me. -- Pastor Martin Niemöller John Andersen wrote:
On Monday 17 May 2004 23:55, Mobeen Azhar wrote:
3) If you get the src rpm that ships with SuSE9.1 and remove all patches except for the one that modifies Makefile.in, then rebuild the RPM and install it, then it works as advertised and you can mount a server fine (all the volumes get mounted) even if it does not hold a replica.
Has anyone else used ncpfs on SuSE 9.1 to do something similar ?
Pretty funny, Novell owns them and all of a sudden NCPFS is broke... skuze me while find my tin foil hat...
John Andersen wrote:
On Monday 17 May 2004 23:55, Mobeen Azhar wrote:
3) If you get the src rpm that ships with SuSE9.1 and remove all patches except for the one that modifies Makefile.in, then rebuild the RPM and install it, then it works as advertised and you can mount a server fine (all the volumes get mounted) even if it does not hold a replica.
Has anyone else used ncpfs on SuSE 9.1 to do something similar ?
Pretty funny, Novell owns them and all of a sudden NCPFS is broke... skuze me while find my tin foil hat...
Hang in there.... it's not over until the fat lady sings. For more good news go to The Inquirer site (www.theinquirer.net) and read the bit called SuSE's Frankenstein's monster. Cheers. -- I am not young enough to know everything.
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