Mounting Novell fs

From: Malcolm Kay (malcolm.kay_at_internode.on.net)
Date: 08/31/04

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Date: Tue, 31 Aug 2004 23:40:24 +0930

    I need to mount a Novell fs on RH9 via ipx.

    >From the distribution I've managed to find and
    install 'ipxutils-2.2.1-1.i386.rpm' and 'ncpfs-2.2.1-1.i386.rpm'
    and with help of manual pages for ipx*, ncp* and nw* I've managed
    manually configure an ipx interface and mount a Novell system for
    a Novell user under an ordinary linux user. Just what I need.

    The problem is that I can't find any documentation on how to
    automate setting the eth0 interface for managing ipx connections.
    Once this is done the actual mount of the fs should not be too much
    of a problem -- this will be done, when necessary, via a shell script
    run under cron to find and transfer files at regular intervals.
    (Yes I found the need set uid on execution for ncpmount and
    ncpumount).

    But for the IPX connection I'm not able to find a setup wizard under
    the default desktop, nor have I been able to find anything in the
    man pages or gnu info on how the relevant setup files work.
    (My wife tells me I'm blind and can't find anything anywhere at
    anytime).

    I believe what is required is some additional assignments in
    /etc/sysconfig/network and /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0.
    And I believe I've gathered some clues by perusing the scripts
    /etc/rc.d/init.d/network, /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifup
    and /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifup-ipx.
    Is this documented somewhere?

    Also I find /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0 has hard links
    to /etc/sysconfig/networking/devices/ifcfg-eth0 and
    /etc/sysconfig/networking/profiles/default/ifcfg-eth0 and I'm curious
    as to why?

    Malcolm 

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