On Wed, Apr 27, 2011 at 12:19:06PM -0300, ferna...@lozano.eti.br wrote: > Tecnically there should be no problem implementing IPX > support in Samba like it worked with DOS Lan Manager and > Windows for Workgroups. It has nothing to do with NCP and > Netware. NCP is akin to SMB, not TCP. IPX has SPX which is > the connection-oriented protocol, while IPX would be used > directly for datagram messages (like UDP). I guess the > same kernel syscalls and glibc sockets API would support > the IPX stack instead of TCP/IP, so it would not be so big > a change in code. If someone wants to try, just grab the > sources and start hacking (I won't). But I heard IPX > support is no longer mantained in current linux kernels, > and thus porting Samba to IPX could be a dead-end.
The problem is that SMB over IPX does not use SPX. It has its own sequencing protocol that Samba would need to implement and thus is a larger change to Samba. Volker -- SerNet GmbH, Bahnhofsallee 1b, 37081 Göttingen phone: +49-551-370000-0, fax: +49-551-370000-9 AG Göttingen, HRB 2816, GF: Dr. Johannes Loxen -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/options/samba