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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!nntp.coast.net!news00.sunet.se!sunic!news99.sunet.se!news.lth.se!beyond.malmo.lth.se!gnork From: Gustav Bjoerkman <gnork@beyond.malmo.lth.se> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc Subject: Re: Mount a NetWare volume in NetBSD? Date: Sat, 16 Dec 1995 15:44:42 +0100 Organization: Lund Institute of Technology, Sweden Lines: 28 Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.3.91.951216153526.12135A-100000@beyond.malmo.lth.se> References: <4a1ako$jm9@dingo.cc.uq.oz.au> <4a627t$5gu@atlas.uniserve.com> <4ah6bs$36h@zk2nws.zko.dec.com> <4aovob$g6@server.cs.vt.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: beyond.malmo.lth.se Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII NNTP-Posting-User: gnork In-Reply-To: <4aovob$g6@server.cs.vt.edu> On 14 Dec 1995, Carl Harris wrote: > In article <4a627t$5gu@atlas.uniserve.com>, tom@uniserve.com (Tom Samplonius) writes: > : The hard part is the Netware core protocol. Those who > : understand it, can't tell anyone becuase it is protected by > : non-disclosure. > : > : Netware will not be supported unless: > : > : - hell freezes over, and Novell releases the specs, or > : - someone reverse enginneers it (which is a bit difficult) > > - or Novell sees dollar signs (i.e. begins to perceive the free-u*ix- > on-PCs as a lucrative market), and makes a port of their UnixWare > package available for FreeBSD, Linux, and/or NetBSD. If IPX support > is already in the kernel, the rest of the porting task shouldn't be > so bad. I believe that if enough people were interested, and those > people began calling Novell's marketing people asking when a port to > FreeBSD/Linux/NetBSD was going to be available, we'd see UnixWare for > free u*ix before too long. > Netware support for Linux has been available for a time now. One package called "Ncpfs" lets you mount Netware volumes. The other, "LinWare", makes your linux machine act as a Netware server. /G