I hope I'm not insulting you all by bringing up the six letter word "Novell". I have a need to access the data from a database housed on a Novell server. All I want to do is mount the Novell filesystem on my Solaris 2.5.1 server and use the data in Solaris analysis programs. Samba works great for me with PCs and I thought I heard there was some work going on for Novell. How far away is this feature or will it ever be. Most Novellites would purchase a module to do, but we are not looking at our own system, it is a customer's system and we will be analysing the customer's data. Sun and other vendors are dropping their support of this software. I'm forced to look elseware and I don't want to go to Novell for the solution. It doesn't have to be freeware, it just has to work and be supported if we need it. ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ + Virginia L. Baca Coded Communications + + Systems Administrator 1939 Palomar Oaks Way + + Carlsbad, CA 92009 + + Voice: 760-431-1945 Ext.284 + + Fax: 760-438-4708 + + email: vbaca@coded.com + ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ My opinions and remarks are mine alone and not those of others. Don't assume that I know what I'm talking about. I just walk around here talking like I do. :-)
On Tue, 9 Sep 1997, Virginia L. Baca wrote:> I hope I'm not insulting you all by bringing up the six > letter word "Novell". I have a need to access the data > from a database housed on a Novell server. All I want > to do is mount the Novell filesystem on my Solaris 2.5.1 > server and use the data in Solaris analysis programs. > > Samba works great for me with PCs and I thought I heard > there was some work going on for Novell.samba-1.9.15p8 ported as an NLM.> How far away is > this feature or will it ever be. Most Novellites > would purchase a module to do, but we are not looking at > our own system, it is a customer's system and we will > be analysing the customer's data. Sun and other vendors > are dropping their support of this software. I'm forced > to look elseware and I don't want to go to Novell for the > solution. > > It doesn't have to be freeware, it just has to work and be > supported if we need it.ok, how about this. 1) get an NT server. 2) install the "Netware Gateway and Client services" 3) buy some NFS server program, or get SOSSNT (SOSS - nfs server for windows. SOSSNT - nfs server for windows, ported to NT). 4) configure the NT server to "re-export" the Novell server. this is all documented in the microsoft help files. mount the Novell server as a network drive on the NT server. 5) re-export, _yet_ again this network drive on the NT server, under NFS. 6) hope like hell that it works. luke
>Date: Mon, 8 Sep 1997 08:46:34 -0700 >From: vbaca@lx8.Coded.COM (Virginia L. Baca) >To: samba@samba.anu.edu.au >Subject: >Message-ID: <199709081546.IAA10401@Coded.COM>>I hope I'm not insulting you all by bringing up the six >letter word "Novell". I have a need to access the data >from a database housed on a Novell server. All I want >to do is mount the Novell filesystem on my Solaris 2.5.1 >server and use the data in Solaris analysis programs.>Samba works great for me with PCs and I thought I heard >there was some work going on for Novell. How far away is >this feature or will it ever be. Most Novellites >would purchase a module to do, but we are not looking at >our own system, it is a customer's system and we will >be analysing the customer's data. Sun and other vendors >are dropping their support of this software. I'm forced >to look elseware and I don't want to go to Novell for the >solution.>It doesn't have to be freeware, it just has to work and be >supported if we need it.As Luke replied, there is a Novell version of Samba. (Haven't tried it myself. Best of luck.) It seems like you could use this with smbtar to get those files off of the Netware server. Your next best solution would be to set up a Linux system, copy the files off of the NW server and into an NFS'd directory (or use ftp.) I think there is a problem with NFS reexporting SMB/NCP mounts from Linux because of the lack of inodes in the latter. Eric