Netware support in NS 3.0

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2 total messages Started by William C. "Spike" White Mon, 26 Oct 1992 21:01

Author: William C. "Spike" White
Date: Mon, 26 Oct 1992 21:01

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I'm new to this group, so I hope this hasn't been discussed ad nauseum already.

We're bridging our Netware LAN and our TCP/IP LAN next week.  Among other
denizens, our TCP/IP LAN houses several NeXTs, most running NS 3.0.

I need something to provide e-mail and NFS connectivity between Netware and
the UNIX boxes.  I've looked at Pegasus/Charon as an e-mail solution, but I
don't have any old, tired PCs laying around to use as a Charon gateway.  

If I can just mount Netware volumes on a UNIX platform, I know how to do the 
equivalent (I think).

I've been eying NS 3.0's NetInfoManager and NetWare client support.  I can't
find it documented (except for one or two lines that say refer to the Novell
manuals).  Does this NetInfoManager provide full client support?  Can I mount
a volume from our Netware server on a NS 3.0 NeXT?  This is the difficult part
of building an SMTP <=> Novell gateway.

For NFS support, Can I then NFS export this directory's parent directory, so I 
can get access to the NetWare volume from another UNIX machine (Sun, etc.) via 
the NeXT?


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Spike White     Tybrin Corporation, Shalimar, FL   | Moderation in all things --
spike.white@tybrin.com                             | and abstinence in none! 
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	     who speaks for the company.

Re: Netware support in NS 3.0

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Author: Andrew Loewenstern
Date: Thu, 29 Oct 1992 08:17

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In article <1992Oct26.210115.8775@tybse1.uucp> swhite@tybse1.uucp (William C. "Spike" White) writes:
>I'm new to this group, so I hope this hasn't been discussed ad nauseum already.
>
>We're bridging our Netware LAN and our TCP/IP LAN next week.  Among other
>denizens, our TCP/IP LAN houses several NeXTs, most running NS 3.0.
>
>I need something to provide e-mail and NFS connectivity between Netware and
>the UNIX boxes.  I've looked at Pegasus/Charon as an e-mail solution, but I
>don't have any old, tired PCs laying around to use as a Charon gateway.  
>
>If I can just mount Netware volumes on a UNIX platform, I know how to do the 
>equivalent (I think).
>
>I've been eying NS 3.0's NetInfoManager and NetWare client support.  I can't
>find it documented (except for one or two lines that say refer to the Novell
>manuals).  Does this NetInfoManager provide full client support?  Can I mount
>a volume from our Netware server on a NS 3.0 NeXT?  This is the difficult part
>of building an SMTP <=> Novell gateway.

You want to fire up NetWareManager.  Click the menu choice that says
"Turn on Novell Networking" and poof.  All of your servers will appear
in /Net next time you reboot.

>For NFS support, Can I then NFS export this directory's parent directory, so I
>can get access to the NetWare volume from another UNIX machine (Sun, etc.) via
>the NeXT?

You can't do this, but you can get NFS for your NetWare servers and
mount them directly on your Suns.

Around here we've tried mounting our NetWare servers onto the NeXT via
IPX/SPX, NFS, and AppleTalk (heh) and they all work pretty well.  I
think loading up the NFS module on the NetWare server and doing it
that way works the best (it's the fastest...), but it's been a while
since I did that.


andrew
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