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From: roberto@keltia.freenix.fr (Ollivier Robert)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Serving Novell clients using FreeBSD
Date: 20 May 1996 15:21:01 GMT
Organization: Herve Schauer Consultants
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In article <4nppc7$fi1@charm.il.ft.hse.nl>,
Edwin Mons <edwinm@il.ft.hse.nl> wrote:
> Is there free software to serve files to Novell-clients?  I do not
> have the resources to buy Netwar/NFS (or equiv.).  

I'm afraid no. Full   server require NCP support  and  most  of it  is  not
available freely from Novell. You can use FreeBSD as an  IPX router but not
as a client or a server. 

Terry will no doubt correct me if I've forgotten something :-)
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