[NTLUG:Discuss] Can you use Linux to share Netware files without IPX?

[Chris Cox]

Richard Geoffrion wrote:
> Chris Cox <cjcox at acm.org> wrote:
> 
>>Moore, Tom wrote:
>>
>>>I need to connect some Windows clients ( 98, 2000, XP)  to a Netware
>>>3.12 resource (which I cannot upgrade)
>>>with out IPX. Can this be done with Linux ?
>>>
>>>
>>
>>You'll have to allow the Linux host to do an ncpmount to
>>mount the IPX share locally.  Then share the Linux
>>directory via samba.... you can also make it visible
>>via NFS as long as you use the SOFTWARE based NFS server
>>(not the kernel one).
>>
>>
> 
> 
> Wouldn't the 'mars' project allow him to do this?  I know the project is
> kinda dead, but it might get him by.
> 
> -or-
> 
> is ncpmount something totally outside of mars?
> 

Outside.  It's a part of ncpfs.  Mars is the netware server... you can
use ncpfs utilities to mount existing netware volumes.