Greetings, samb'ers Sorry if this is repetitive, but I can't imagine the answer is NO, so I would like to trouble the list again.... My PC-maintaining colleagues ask, "Can SAMBA log in to a Novell 5.1 file server and authenticate through NDS (Novell Directory Services)? We are trying to use SAMBA to move files from our Sun to a Novell 5.1 server not running FTP services." If the answer is NO, does anyone have an inexpensive solution to this - or, advice - my PC people don't want to run FTP services on a server running an important application. They are batting around the idea of Novell with FTP on an old (retired) server. Or, can I tell a Novell server to use a Samba share as a sharable directory? Thanks Seth Rothenberg
Seth You do have some choices but samba isn't one of them ... ncp isn't the same as smb, despite Novell NetBIOS. * Out of the box NW5.1 has ftp as you mention. Its not as bad as all that. The username and password *is* authenticated via NDS, you have to enter a fully qualified bone fide NDS username and password to gain access. FTP as a protocol is just as "secure" as smb. *You can purchase NFS for NW5.1 *You can try out NDS for Linux - I haven't seen anything of it yet but I'd imagine file sharing is an option. NDS Corporate Edition is your man - ther may be a limited user demo, which would be ideal for you. *You can roll up your sleeves and write some pretty severe extensions to samba :-) Cheers Jon Gerdes>>> "Seth Rothenberg" <SROTHENB@montefiore.org> 01/04/01 08:34pm >>>Greetings, samb'ers Sorry if this is repetitive, but I can't imagine the answer is NO, so I would like to trouble the list again.... My PC-maintaining colleagues ask, "Can SAMBA log in to a Novell 5.1 file server and authenticate through NDS (Novell Directory Services)? We are trying to use SAMBA to move files from our Sun to a Novell 5.1 server not running FTP services." If the answer is NO, does anyone have an inexpensive solution to this - or, advice - my PC people don't want to run FTP services on a server running an important application. They are batting around the idea of Novell with FTP on an old (retired) server. Or, can I tell a Novell server to use a Samba share as a sharable directory? Thanks Seth Rothenberg
Seth Rothenberg wrote:> > Greetings, samb'ers > Sorry if this is repetitive, but I can't imagine the answer is NO, > so I would like to trouble the list again.... > My PC-maintaining colleagues ask, > > "Can SAMBA log in to a Novell 5.1 file server and authenticate through NDS (Novell Directory Services)? > We are trying to use SAMBA to move files from our Sun to a Novell 5.1 server not running FTP services." > > If the answer is NO, does anyone have an inexpensive solution to this - or, advice - > my PC people don't want to run FTP services on a server running an important application. >If you're dead-set against FTP: Look for ncpfs, which should let you mount the Netware volume from Linux. Then you could use Samba to expose that as a smb share. I know ncpfs is supposed to have some level of NDS support now. Or, mount the volume from a WinPC running Novell client, and share that using Windows File Sharing! (Haven't tried this...)