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<pet peeve> "Novell" is a company. It makes a number of products, one of which is "NetWare", another is "SUSE Linux". Tage, your customer has a "NetWare server", not a "Novell server". Tage states he wants to mount the NetWare partitions from SUSE Linux. A major issue here is that NetWare v3.12 is ANCIENT. It was EOLed about 7 YEARS ago. It only supports NCP (NetWare Core Protocol, what a NetWare client is going to want to use) over IPX. So the SUSE client must also support IPX - its not just a matter of loading the client and off you go. There was an FTP server for NetWare v3.x, part of a product suite called Unix File and Print Services for NetWare, but its not sold any more, and if Tage's customer doesn't have it, he's probably not going to be able to find it. Note that *modern* versions of NetWare (v5.1 and later) have Native File Access Protocol support (http://www.novell.com/products/nfa/) that will allow the NetWare server to appear as an NFS server for *NIX clients, as well as an AFP server for Macs and a CIFS server for Windoze. The latter could be combined with SAMBA support on the SUSE client. In any case, I think its rather silly for Tage's customer to be buying new hardware and new software and putting all this money into their computing environment and leaving the NetWare server languishing, running a version of the NOS from *last century*.
"Joe Polk"
11/9/2004 12:41:07 PM >>> Try here: http://www.novell.com/coolsolutions/tools/1518.html
A client for Linux is likely what you'd want.
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From: "Tage Danielsen"
Hello
I have a job to do with a novell server 3.12, a volumen with long names, dos and os2 pref. the custommer have get new workstation some
times ago, and now we are unable to open som of the catalogs with long names and national karacters in names, is it possiple to mount an ipx volumen fra a suse linux I have a ver 9.2 prof? If so I would
like to know. Best Tage ------- End of Original Message -------
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In any case, I think its rather silly for Tage's customer to be buying new hardware and new software and putting all this money into their computing environment and leaving the NetWare server languishing, running a version of the NOS from *last century*.
All seriousness aside -- at least it's not vulnerable to any internet hacks ;)
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At 12:41 PM 9/11/2004, Steve Kratz wrote:
In any case, I think its rather silly for Tage's customer to be buying new hardware and new software and putting all this money into their computing environment and leaving the NetWare server languishing, running a version of the NOS from *last century*.
All seriousness aside -- at least it's not vulnerable to any internet hacks ;)
And more seriousness, there are a lot of 3.12's still around. They were easy to setup, had little problems, did the job for small businesses, and it was easy to train one of the office staff to handle the day-to-day admin and support functions. I don't now about other countries, but in Australia 3.12 was a big step and gained Novell quite a market share and following. Version 4.0 "the big step"on the other hand was a mess and I know of many who refused to even consider going any further, (even multinationals). scsijon
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On Tue, 2004-11-09 at 12:15, David Bank wrote:
In any case, I think its rather silly for Tage's customer to be buying new hardware and new software and putting all this money into their computing environment and leaving the NetWare server languishing, running a version of the NOS from *last century*.
I guess you've never heard of "if it isn't broke don't fix it". There are plenty of reasons to continue using it. 1. His client may have an 3rd party application that runs on it. Contrary to popular opinion when NW3.12 was the current version there were a lot of vertical market applications that were written to run on NetWare. Especially, in the Accounting, Insurance and Healthcare markets. 2. Stability - I still have a couple of NetWare 3.12/3.2 servers running at the company I work for. Why? The last time I looked they both had over 700days of uptime. They just work, just like our beloved SUSE Linux. 3. Not everyone needs the latest and greatest. This is especially true if the server is just being used for file and print services. The Current Novell client can connect to every version of NetWare going all the way back to NW2.15. So his client can upgrade their desktops and still connect to the *old* server. Every Linux distribution comes with the ability to connect to a Netware server you simply need to install ncpfs and configure it.
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Chuck Stuettgen
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David Bank
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scsijon
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Steve Kratz