[NTLUG:Discuss] Can you use Linux to share Netware files without IPX?

[Richard Geoffrion]

Chris Cox <cjcox at acm.org> wrote:
> Moore, Tom wrote:
>> I need to connect some Windows clients ( 98, 2000, XP)  to a Netware
>> 3.12 resource (which I cannot upgrade)
>> with out IPX. Can this be done with Linux ?
>>
>>
>
> You'll have to allow the Linux host to do an ncpmount to
> mount the IPX share locally.  Then share the Linux
> directory via samba.... you can also make it visible
> via NFS as long as you use the SOFTWARE based NFS server
> (not the kernel one).
>
>

Wouldn't the 'mars' project allow him to do this?  I know the project is
kinda dead, but it might get him by.

-or-

is ncpmount something totally outside of mars?


-Richard <-- an MCNE who is also quickly relinquishing his knowledge of
Netware