If you're looking for a GUI frontend to the ipxutils and nwclient, you can use
gnlogin (http://www.wm.f2s.com/gnlogin-v1.3.tar.gz). I used it a few times, and
it works.
FYI,
Kenny
> On Mon, 24 Apr 2000, cdowns wrote:
> > anyone know if there is a good novell client availabe for linux yet?????
>
> Depends on your definition of "good".
>
> IPX and NCP (Novell Core Protocol) support is built-in to Linux kernels
> going back at least to 2.0.0. To make use of it, though, you need two
utility
> packages -- ipxutils and nwclient -- both of which are included with the
> better distributions.
>
> ipxutils gives you the commands needed to configure an IPX network
interface
> and setup IPX routes and networks. See the man page for ipx_interface(8) to
> get started.
>
> nwclient (also called ncpfs) gives you the commands needed to connect to
NCP
> servers, mount volumes, print to print queues, etc. See the man pages
> nwclient(5), ncpmount(8), and nprint(1) to get started there.
>
> AFAIK, the above mentioned utilities only support NCP Version 3. If you
> want to connect to servers using older protocols (e.g., NetWare 2.x, MS
> Windows), you are out-of-luck. If you want to connect to servers running
> newer protocols (e.g., NetWare 4.x or 5.x), you can either enable bindery
> emulation on the servers, or buy Caldera's "Network Desktop" (or whatever
> they're calling it now), which includes a commercial (proprietary,
> closed-source, non-free) NetWare client for Linux.
>
> Hope this helps!
>
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