[NTLUG:Discuss] re-exporting NCP thru NFS

[Chris Cox]

Are you using Kernel space NFS or the user space NFS daemon?
You might want to try the user space daemon and see if
that works.

"George E. Lass" wrote:
> 
> I have encountered some odd problems trying to interface
> an OLD SYS V Unix system to my Novell Netware 5 file server.
> 
> Although Netware 5 comes with a "free" NFS package, it is
> worth about what you pay for it...... NOTHING
> 
> Here is my setup:  My client is a Motorola VME Based Unix
> System V computer.  It does an NFS mount of a directory on
> my Linux PC.  The Linux PC is running RedHat 6.1.  The
> directory on the Linux PC is actually an NCP mount of my
> Novell 5.1 server.
> 
> Here are my problems:
> 
> 1) When my SYS V client computer creates a file on the server it
>    is not set up as shareable under Novell so it can't be
>    read by other Novell clients while it is being written
>    from my SYS V client.
> 
> 2) After writing ~32MB into a file from my SYS V client, I
>    copied a really small file on top of the 32MB file.  The
>    32MB file was unchanged (basically the copy had no effect)
> 
> 3) Tried the same thing as 2) above with an EMPTY file.  This
>    also had no effect on the 32MB file.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> George
> 
> --
> ... Unix IS a user friendly O/S ...
> (It's just picky about its friends)
> 
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