I have had good success using the ncpfs to make my linux machine a client. I think the warnings are mostly about where you want to use the linux machine as a novell server rather than a client. The only problem is that the nw utilities in linux don't provide a warning during your grace logins about the expiration of your password.
On Mon, 3 May 1999, Paul Schwebel wrote: > I am learning Debian/GNU Linux. I have a 2.0 install with ncpfs. I haven't > actually used it, yet, because the disclaimers in the readme's refer to such > things as potentially bringing the server down. I can't afford to do that in > our live environment, and we don't yet have a good test environment. > > I wanted to find out what experiences anyone's had with using a Linux box as > a network client in a Novell environment, especially 4.11 or better. How > well do the ncpfs utilities work? or do you use something else? > > Thanks, > > -Paul Schwebel > San Dieguito Union High School District > > > > > _______________________________________________________ > Get your free, private email at http://mail.excite.com/ > ---- Robert King, Australian Environmental Studies, Griffith University, Australia 3875 6677 [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.ens.gu.edu.au/robertk/ "When I was ten, I read fairy tales in secret and would have been ashamed if I had been found doing so. Now that I am fifty I read them openly. When I became a man I put away childish things, including the fear of childishness and the desire to be very grown up." C. S. Lewis, "On Three Ways of Writing for Children"
