[NTLUG:Discuss] More Hillcrest Questions/Netware

[Kathleen Weaver]

>Since you bring up Samba, I should point out that there is no relation
>whatsoever between Netware and Samba, save that they are both
>network-related.  Samba is a way of interfacing with "Windows networks" -
be
>they 95's peer-to-peer or NT's domain-based.  Samba doesn't talk to
Netware,
>and Netware doesn't talk to or in Samba.

I understand that.

>It sounds like to do what you're wanting to do you would set Samba up on
the
>Linux box, connect network drives on your client machines (Windows
systems?)
>over to the Linux box via Samba.  Have the students save their work on
those
>particular network drives instead of the Netware drives.

>So far as synchronizing other information, you'd probably be looking at a
>routine similar to the following: extract the account name, description
>information, etc, from the Linux box, then use a program to import that
data
>into Netware and create the accounts accordingly.  I know in Netware 3.x
there

I know that I can set up a file with the necessary information for Netware
account setup -- I could always write a C++ program that could do a
similular thing for the Linux boxes.



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