On Tue, 2008-02-19 at 10:27 +0800, Jonathan Ervine wrote:
Just to confirm; you're using SUSE Linux 10.0, and not SLED 10, yes? Can you also find out if the NetWare server(s) you're connecting to are using IP as their protocols. Since NetWare 5.0 IP has been supported natively, but IPX is still supported and in regular use. If the servers are not using IP then this is never going to work.
OpenSUSE 10.0. I will check if it is IP. I have a feeling it is. But I will check.
As Graham has outlined in his mail, the context is simply your user object's location within the eDirectory tree. This is important so that the client can locate your user object. If I were you I'd try seeing which servers you're connected to after a successful Windows logon. This should be obvious by right clicking on the 'big red N' in the system tray or on Network Neighbourhood and checking the connections. Then ping the servers to find out their IP addresses. You can then put one of these IP addresses in the server field of the Novell Client for Linux. If you're lucky one might be a [Root] replica server, and you could put it in the Tree field, and see if you can browse the available contexts. If you can browse the contexts (see the tree structure) then you know you can make a tree connection and a login should be easy.
I took all the settings from the Windows Novell client login box, which looks very similar to the Linux one. I can ping the machine listed in Server. I also enered the IP address. It made no difference.
Failing that, as a long shot you could try seeing if you can locate the tree you need by pressing the Tree button... If after all that has failed you might be needing your NetWare admin to be helping out as they'll know the specifics of the eDirectory/NetWare environment.
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