Date: Wed, 14 Jun 2000 18:57:52 +0200 From: Christoph Sold <so@server.i-clue.de> To: "Sean R. Bittinger" <bittin_s@cc.denison.edu> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FW: Netware??? Message-ID: <3947B990.56849037@i-clue.de> References: <B569F751.1173%bittin_s@denison.edu>
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"Sean R. Bittinger" wrote: > Well, I sent this once before, but got no reply. So, I thought I would try > it again in the hopes that someone might have an answer. > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > I have a question that I have been searching for an answer to for some time > now. My university is on a Novell NetWare network. We can use the NetWare > Client to access parts of the server allocated to us (for storage, file > transfer, and what not). Well, I have been looking for a way to access this > through Apple's open source Darwin project (which uses BSD 4.4 just incase > someone doesn't know who could otherwise help). I was informed that in the > release notes to FreeBSD 4.0 there is mention of support for NWFS: > > >Support for the NWFS filesystem and NetWare client connections has > >been added. A variety of NetWare related tools, such as ipxping > >and ncprint, have been added in ports/net/ncplib. So ask at www.freebsd.org/ports about ncplib, and you'll get the following: http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/ports.cgi?query=ncplib&stype=all -> Category net ncplib-1.3.4 Client for Novell NetWare servers Maintained by: bp@butya.kz ncplib is a free client for Novell NetWare servers. WWW: http://www.chat.ru/~rbp/ncplen.html On its homepage, there should be at least one link to download it. http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/pds.cgi?ports/net/ncplib reveals three sides where to get the tarball. > My question is this, would I be able to get this going on Darwin? Don't know. Depends on your knowledge (mine is too narrow for this topic). A good source for learning to port Unix software is Greg lehey, Proting Unix Software, O'Reilly. Still sold at Amazon, and a good book at that. It's not too complicated. > Also, if so, where can I get (read download) this ability? If not, what would > be > required to run it on Darwin? Don't know. Methinks you would just have to try. > Finally, anybody have any other solutions for my intended purpose (basically, > to be able to login and access my NetWare drive space using Darwin/BSD, and > ultimately OS X)? Umm, this is a FreeBSD mailing list. Although Darwin features a FreeBSD personality stacked onto a Mach microkernel, this is completely off topic. Thus nobody answered (yet). You are probably better informed about Mac OS than the majority of the mailing list users. Alternatively, have a look at Category net mars_nwe-0.99.b18 Netware server emulator for Un*x systems Maintained by: bp@FreeBSD.org > I'm thinking like, "mount -t NWFS..." or something like this. Sounds nice. Has not been done. Anybody correct me? HTH -Christoph Sold To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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