I have one last RH 7.3 system that I want to convert to CentOS 4, but I can''t find the ncpfs utilities that I used to use to mount Netware shares. Has support been removed from the 3.x and 4? Regards, Paul Berger
On Tue, 2005-03-22 at 22:22 -0600, Paul wrote:> I have one last RH 7.3 system that I want to convert to CentOS 4, but I > can''t find the ncpfs utilities that I used to use to mount Netware > shares. > > Has support been removed from the 3.x and 4?Well I dug though the RH''s site and in the release notes for AS 3.95 ite mentionsed that ncpfs has been deprecated. I can''t find the release notes for 4, but assume that they must have removed support in the kernel along with the package. It looks like I''ve reached a dead-end unless I want to build a custom version of the kernel for this workstation each time a new one comes out. That looks to be more work than continuing with it as it is and using fedoralegacy updates. Anybody have other ideas? Paul Berger
On Thu, 2005-03-24 at 19:33 -0600, Paul wrote:> On Tue, 2005-03-22 at 22:22 -0600, Paul wrote: > > I have one last RH 7.3 system that I want to convert to CentOS 4, but I > > can''t find the ncpfs utilities that I used to use to mount Netware > > shares. > > > > Has support been removed from the 3.x and 4? > > Well I dug though the RH''s site and in the release notes for AS 3.95 ite > mentionsed that ncpfs has been deprecated. I can''t find the release > notes for 4, but assume that they must have removed support in the > kernel along with the package. > > It looks like I''ve reached a dead-end unless I want to build a custom > version of the kernel for this workstation each time a new one comes > out. That looks to be more work than continuing with it as it is and > using fedoralegacy updates. > > Anybody have other ideas? >---- See if SuSE has a source rpm Craig
On Thu, 2005-03-24 at 18:39 -0700, Craig White wrote:> On Thu, 2005-03-24 at 19:33 -0600, Paul wrote: > > On Tue, 2005-03-22 at 22:22 -0600, Paul wrote: > > > I have one last RH 7.3 system that I want to convert to CentOS 4, but I > > > can''t find the ncpfs utilities that I used to use to mount Netware > > > shares. > > > > > > Has support been removed from the 3.x and 4? > > > > Well I dug though the RH''s site and in the release notes for AS 3.95 ite > > mentionsed that ncpfs has been deprecated. I can''t find the release > > notes for 4, but assume that they must have removed support in the > > kernel along with the package. > > > > It looks like I''ve reached a dead-end unless I want to build a custom > > version of the kernel for this workstation each time a new one comes > > out. That looks to be more work than continuing with it as it is and > > using fedoralegacy updates. > > > > Anybody have other ideas? > > > ---- > See if SuSE has a source rpm >I nabbed the src.rpm from FC3 and built it ... it only halfway works because of lack of ncpfs support in the kernel. It finds the server and authenticates, but can''t mount the volume. Personally I only want to support one "flavor" of Linux ... in the past that has been "RH & RH based". Since we are a Netware shop it''s looking like SuSE may be a better choice ... shame there is not a rebuild project like CentOS. I used SuSE 9 at home for a year as my main desktop and I did not really like it. I don''t like YaST and not a fan of KDE either ... maybe I''m too set in my ways. Regards, Paul
On Thu, 2005-03-24 at 20:16 -0600, Paul wrote:> On Thu, 2005-03-24 at 18:39 -0700, Craig White wrote: > > On Thu, 2005-03-24 at 19:33 -0600, Paul wrote: > > > On Tue, 2005-03-22 at 22:22 -0600, Paul wrote: > > > > I have one last RH 7.3 system that I want to convert to CentOS 4, but I > > > > can''t find the ncpfs utilities that I used to use to mount Netware > > > > shares. > > > > > > > > Has support been removed from the 3.x and 4? > > > > > > Well I dug though the RH''s site and in the release notes for AS 3.95 ite > > > mentionsed that ncpfs has been deprecated. I can''t find the release > > > notes for 4, but assume that they must have removed support in the > > > kernel along with the package. > > > > > > It looks like I''ve reached a dead-end unless I want to build a custom > > > version of the kernel for this workstation each time a new one comes > > > out. That looks to be more work than continuing with it as it is and > > > using fedoralegacy updates. > > > > > > Anybody have other ideas? > > > > > ---- > > See if SuSE has a source rpm > > > > I nabbed the src.rpm from FC3 and built it ... it only halfway works > because of lack of ncpfs support in the kernel. It finds the server and > authenticates, but can''t mount the volume. > > Personally I only want to support one "flavor" of Linux ... in the past > that has been "RH & RH based". Since we are a Netware shop it''s looking > like SuSE may be a better choice ... shame there is not a rebuild > project like CentOS. > > I used SuSE 9 at home for a year as my main desktop and I did not really > like it. I don''t like YaST and not a fan of KDE either ... maybe I''m > too set in my ways.---- yeah - I don''t know what I was thinking - without the kernel module - the utilities aren''t worth much. SuSE (Debian, Gentoo) or compile your own kernel - it isn''t that hard to do. That does rather bite - one of these moments I''m gonna have to see if they included appletalk module in RHEL 4 since I do have a number of customers that need that - it was in kernel-unsupported in RHEL 3 which makes me suspicious that I too may be sailing the same seas as you are. Craig
On 24 Mar 2005 at 19:33, Paul wrote:> Well I dug though the RH's site and in the release notes for AS 3.95 ite > mentionsed that ncpfs has been deprecated. I can't find the release > notes for 4, but assume that they must have removed support in the > kernel along with the package.Try installing the kernel-unsupported module. Both ncpfs.o and ipx.o (should you still require it) are in that module, at least for CentOS 3.x--haven't looked at 4.0 yet myself. ---- Nels Lindquist <*> Information Systems Manager Morningstar Air Express Inc.