From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Aug 16 19:55:06 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id TAA26373 for hackers-outgoing; Sat, 16 Aug 1997 19:55:06 -0700 (PDT) Received: from marlin.exis.net (root@marlin.exis.net [205.252.72.102]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id TAA26368 for ; Sat, 16 Aug 1997 19:55:04 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sailfish.exis.net (sailfish.exis.net [205.252.72.104]) by marlin.exis.net (8.8.4/8.8.5) with SMTP id WAA13327; Sat, 16 Aug 1997 22:54:59 -0400 Date: Sat, 16 Aug 1997 22:53:11 -0400 (EDT) From: Stefan Molnar To: "Charles A. Peters" cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD File Server on a Novell 3.12 Network In-Reply-To: <199708161327.JAA23712@ais.ais-gwd.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > I am in the process of attempting to set up a FreeBSD file server to > be attached to my Novell 3.12 IPX network. I was wondering what the > most reliable way to accomplish this task would be. > > My primary goal is to have a server capable of housing files with > long file names (WinNT files, Windows95 files, and Unix type files). > > I understand that the SAMBA product included with my copy of FreeBSD > Version 2.1 may be used to accomplish this task. > > Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. You can not use samba for this task, samba uses SMB for file and printer sharing. Netware does not work that way. With only a Netware 3.x and freebsd, you can try to us mars (I saw it on redhat), or Netware NFS. The way I worked around it was using a OS/2 Warp server as a front end of the netware box, and the freebsd box and it work wonerfully. BUt I was luck in that the school had os/2 warp server. Later I moved from samba and used the OS/2 NFS package. BUt I can tell you that it was a blind journey to get all of those servers talking nicely to dos/win, win95, and os/2 warp clienmts. Stefan