From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Sep 27 5:13:57 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from clmboh1-smtp3.columbus.rr.com (clmboh1-smtp3.columbus.rr.com [65.24.0.112]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E3E9B37B447 for ; Thu, 27 Sep 2001 05:13:54 -0700 (PDT) Received: from iowna.com (dhcp065-024-023-038.columbus.rr.com [65.24.23.38]) by clmboh1-smtp3.columbus.rr.com (8.11.2/8.11.2) with ESMTP id f8RC9qR10825; Thu, 27 Sep 2001 08:09:52 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <3BB31848.76CE9D7C@iowna.com> Date: Thu, 27 Sep 2001 08:15:04 -0400 From: Bill Moran X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.76 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 4.4-RC i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Stephen Hurd Cc: asek , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: yo! yo! References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Stephen Hurd wrote: > > > I need to know if its possible for freeBSD and Novell to communicate with > each other and also > > is there any supported programs that work with Novell prefferbably for the > version 5.0 and > > that can also take advatage of Novell's NDS. > > Yes, it is possible. I have had my FreeBSD 4.2 system chatting amicably with > my NetWare 4.1 server quite nicely. As far as being easy... well, no, it's > not. The custom kernel is the first bit... not too hard, it's the connections > and drive mountings that get a bit sticky. I've since stopped using the > connection, so I don't remember all the details. I also seem to remember > seeing a NetWare server emulator burried somewhere (probobly the ports > collection ;-) but I haven't tried it myself. It's called mars_nwe, available in the ports. I was researching it a few months ago, and then the Netware machine had a HDD crash and we decided to abandon Netware altogether, so I can't really say how well it does/doesn't work. -- "Where's the robot to pat you on the back?" To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message