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So, I'm lazy and don't like clicking GUIs for some stuff and then sometimes I do.

In this case, I wanted an easier way to map drives to servers. So I wrote a wrapper script to pass my options to the Novell Linux Client command line tools.

This works for mapping drives to NetWare and Linux OES servers.

Here's my script:

nwmapper.sh

#!/bin/bash

if [ $# = 1 ] || [ $# = 2 ]; then
echo "number of arguments is $#"

if [ $1 = "DEL" ] || [ $1 = "del" ]; then
nwmap DEL /home/user/U:
else
        if [ "$2" = "" ]; then
        nwmap -d u -s $1 -v sys
        else
        nwmap -d u -s $1 -v $2
        fi
fi
else

if [ $# = 0 ]; then
echo "must pass at least 1 argument"
exit 0
else
echo "only 2 arguments can be passed"
exit 0
fi
fi

#end script

Then I call it from the command line like:

./nwmapper.sh SERVERNAME

By default it will map the U drive/folder to the SYS volume on your server. You can also specify the volume name on the command line:

./nwmapper.sh SERVERNAME VOL

And if you want to dismount/unmap:

./nwmapper.sh del

Then, I can use this for a number of uses.

For example, I've been asked to copy files to multiple servers. So I wrote another wrapper script that wraps around my script.

copyfiles.sh
#!/bin/bash
sh /home/user/nwmap-syntax.txt $1

ls -l /home/user/U/LOGIN/Banner.exe
cp /home/user/Banner.exe /home/user/U/LOGIN/Banner.exe

ls -l /home/user/U/LOGIN/Banner.exe
sh /home/user/nwmap-syntax.txt del
#end script

Then I create another file with my server names listed:

sh copyfiles.sh SERVERNAME1
sh copyfiles.sh SERVERNAME2
sh copyfiles.sh SERVERNAME3
sh copyfiles.sh SERVERNAME4

Good luck!