Brandon, what you are doing is MANUALLY initiating configuration & IPX
startup, which effectively bypasses the scripts and configs which
Mandrake purposely included in 8.0.
While there is nothing wrong with this, you have to remember that you
are dealing with Newbies on the list...
(eh, by the way, none of this is news to me... I've worked with this
stuff for over 25 years... )
You can't expect them to deal with the nuances of manual configuration
and knowing things about frames, etc.
In addition Mandrake in and of itself fails to autoprobe, which I
mentioned before. This WAS originally designed to be done by Linuxconf,
but the scripts never worked properly. Now Mandrake seems to be moving
away from Linuxconf, and there remain MANY holes... This being one of
them.
You can go ahead and define the interfaces to BE autoprobed in Linuxconf
but the probe will not be initiated by anything already in the release
(except manually as you've stated) EXCEPT starting up MARS.
The beauty of Linux, is that since you DO have access to the nitty
gritty, so to speak, you can make things work, one way or another, by
beating programs into submission, as what you are suggesting.
However the initialization of the ipx like this is far too much to
expect for the first time user to do. It's far easier for them to deal
with setting up MARS using the example script and having the service
autostarted, than it is for them to find and modify the proper scripts
to fix the problem...
And a problem it is!
Though the NDS login support is (welcome) news to me...
-JMS
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-----Original Message-----
From: Brandon Caudle [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Saturday, August 04, 2001 8:03 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: RE: [expert] Anyone successfully using ncpfs on Mandrake 8.0?
NOPE SORRY YOU DON'T NEED MARS-NWE TO DO THAT!
Corrections/Updates:
New version of ncpfs which now supports NDS logins.
If you only wish to use the services of an existing NetWare server, you
can
use ipx_configure (section 7.1) to automatically define the IPX
interfaces
by using broadcast queries to look for a server. If this fails, or you
wish
to provide IPX services, you will need to define the interfaces manually
using ipx_interface or mars_nwe.
# ipx_interface add -p eth0 802.2 0x39ab0222
ipx_configure
This command enables or disables the automatic setting of the interface
configuration and primary interface settings.
--auto_interface
allows you to select whether new network devices should be
--auto_primary
automatically configured as IPX devices or not.
After your IPX network is configured you should be able to use the slist
command to see a list of all of the Novell fileserver on your network:
# slist
WITH OUT MARS-NWE!
http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/IPX-HOWTO.html
Brandon Caudle
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15yr Old Avid Unix User (HP-UX,FreeBSD,Linux)
>From: "Jose M. Sanchez" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Reply-To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Subject: RE: [expert] Anyone successfully using ncpfs on Mandrake 8.0?
>Date: Sat, 4 Aug 2001 17:49:50 -0400
>
>
>But eh, I think you've missed the point...
>
>Mars is the only app that probes the frames and network numbers
>correctly that in turn permits ncpmount to function...
>
>Linuxconf should do this upon startup, but it does not.
>
>Loading ipx by itself or running ncpmount doesn't autoprobe...
>
>-JMS
>
>
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Brandon Caudle [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
>Sent: Saturday, August 04, 2001 8:38 AM
>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Subject: RE: [expert] Anyone successfully using ncpfs on Mandrake 8.0?
>
>
>right as i stated in one of the emails its not
>
>Brandon Caudle
>--------------
>15yr Old Avid Unix User (HP-UX,FreeBSD,Linux)
>
>
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