Mounting NetWare Volumes under Linux

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By Amritpal Bath

Digg This - Slashdot This Posted: 10 Feb 2005

The Linux kernel does not natively support mounting Novell NetWare 4/5 volumes.

SOLUTION: Use the opensource ncpfs project at: http://freshmeat.net/projects/ncpfs/

Build it and use ncpmount to authenticate yourself and mount the volume. If you're using IPX, be sure to build IPX support as a module, and not directly into the kernel - otherwise things just don't work well.

If you have any questions you may contact Amritpal at amrit@transamrit.net

Reader Comments

• minimal documentation and no examples.
• trash, this is an example of why linux never got into the enterprise. mount netware 4 and 5 volumes, who cares. Novell needs to give good answers and get this clutter off the novell site.
• It's a solution but it ain't cool
• This is even easier if you use yast on SuSE. 1) Install the ncpfs packages using yast. 2) Download and install the novelclient from http://novelclient.sourceforge.net/ Bingo! Graphical Novell login.

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