Re: [SLE] SuSE-8.2 and Novell Netware 5.1

Alain Barthélemy wrote:

Le mercredi 25 août 2004, 07:53:53 ou environ jonlists a écrit:

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If your administrator knows nothing but windows - try logging in from a Windows workstation to verify whether or not your Netware account has been disabled or locked out. You don't mention and maybe don't know whether or not they physically changed servers or went through a in-the-box upgrade?

The server was "physically" changed from the old machine to a Raid5? machine. There is a change of Netware versio too from 4.x to 5.1.

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BTW - Novell is Suse is Novell. If you haven't looked into OES - Open Enterprise Server - where they're going with Netware and Linux - you should.... they're going to be coming out with some pretty cool stuff in the next few months. Jon Johnston

Interesting I'll check.

Thanks, Alain

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As SuSE is now part of Novell I hope to find here someone who knows how to handle a Netware server from a SuSE-Linux post (don't tell to address a Novell list. If it exist they surely only know how to click-click from a Windoze station).

Thus, a few month ago with a Netware-4.* server I just typed:

ipx_configure -auto_primary=on -auto_interface=on

Then:

slist => I have the list of the available Netware file servers.

Then:

ncpmount -S NETWARE_SERVER -u MY_LOGGING -b /mnt/novell

password:xxxxxx

And the file server was mounted on /mnt/novell

Then the "great computer administrator" changed to Netware-5.1 and I stil can see the available Netware file servers with slist but if I type:

ncpmount -S NETWARE_SERVER -u MY_LOGGING -b /mnt/novell

I have now:

Logging into NETWARE_SERVER as MY_LOGGING Passward:xxxxx ncpmount: Unknown server (0x89FC) in login Login denied.

I can still log myself in in the Windows part of my PC thus no

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name or Password.

If anybody knows a way to check what's going wrong or a way to connect to Netware-5.1 or if there is a new Novell interface better adapted.

Our Administrator has only had Windows in the milk of his mother and

Creative Business Solutions IBM, Lotus, Microsoft Consultants http://www.cbsol.com 952-544-1108 Blog: http://bingo.cbsol.com Alain Barthélemy wrote on 08/25/2004 02:31:58 AM: problem of User the only

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thing he can say is "with Windows it works, just clickety-clickety".

My SuSE version is 8.2.

When the switch here was made from Netware 4 to Netware 5 I started having to use IP instead of IPX. ncpmount -S NETWARE_SERVER -U my_uid.my_ou.my_o -A fully_qualifed_dns_name_of_server -m /local/nds/NETWARe_SERVER Also, I've never had this work with the SuSE supplied version of ncpmount on any version of SuSE prior to 9.1. Just tried it on 9.1 and it was fine. On all previous versions, I had to download the source from http://platan.vc.cvut.cz/pub/linux/ncpfs/ and compile it myself. Jason Joines =================================