-----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, August 13, 2001 10:30 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [expert] Anyone successfully using ncpfs on Mandrake 8.0? Yeah, I've done that... Depending on whether I manually set the network number or leave it to autoprobe, the addr field comes up with addr:0x0a0a0000.[MacAddress] or addr:[MacAddress]. --- What you are talking about is for ethernet, at a lower level... --- 0x0a0a0000 is the correct network number for my setup, but leaving auto_interface and auto_primary on never gets ifconfig to show the 0x0a0a0000 network number. --- I'm referring to the output from SLIST... You should see something like #slist Known Netware FIle Servers Network Node Address ------------------------------------------------------------------------ - LAN 34AB2ABF 00000003EFC Assuming that you are using IPX... This does not correspond to the output of ifconfig. The Network Number and Node address are assigned in the configuration of the Novell server call "LAN" above. When Mars autoprobes the network it picks up the Network Number from the existing server, for the first frame type it is set to use (the existing Novell server and Mars must "talk" the same frame types... I.E 802.3, 802.2, etc... Only one is needed, but both servers must know about the other's...) --- I see no messages in the various system logs that would indicate a network failure. --- Do you have ANOTHER Novell server on the network? If not you may need to manually set the IPX network addresses & frame types in the nwserv.conf file before running mars. NCPMOUNT / Mars might not be able to autoprobe your frame types if there is not already a running Netware server which is assigning them and the Network numbers... Remember this is for IPX, not TCP/IP and will NOT correspond to what you see in ifconfig. --- I'd almost rather can Novell and just go with FreeBSD as a print server, except that the SCSI card in the Novell box is not supported by either Linux or by FreeBSD. --- Is this what you are trying to do? Set up a print server? If so why not use Linux for it via Samba? --- I'd have to reconfig the hardware to even be able to make it work. The other complication is that its a 486DX66 with only 20MB or so of RAM. Novell works fine, but I don't have a good feel for what the other OS's require. --- Ouch, that's small even for Linux... ---
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