So i downloaded and installed the newest client novell 1.1 for suse 10.

In the YAST2 manager I cannot access the client, the button on the bottom left where the super user mode is suppose to be is not there.

I have groupwise configured and it works great, I just need to get the novell client running so I can log in full context to my network shares on our netware servers.

Where should I start?

Thanks in advance for help.

Hi,
I made this in suse 9.0.
Now I have Suse 10.0.
It seems you have to install "ncpfs" first to appear in the yast2 sys-config. It should be in NETWORK-NOVELL.
From there on you can try what you need.
I hope this will help a little.
I've only tried this one time in my friends company.

Good Luck!!!

i installed ncpfs which is a package that allows you to view netware file systems, and the client is configured, how can i run the client once in the OS to log in?????

I just want to access a few file servers and mount network drives...

anyone?

Thanks for the help

Did you make a mountpoint on /mnt ?
Did you config your fstab?

Have a look at this http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/IPX-HOWTO-9.html

Also this http://www.novell.com/coolsolutions/trench/16445.html

okay I think I have the everything set minus a few things...

I created a mount directory for both of my servers, and created a path to them full context with user name and password for my novell log in.

A few questions

for some reason I don't have an /etc/fstab directory, and I am not sure why???

So, I want to configure fstab to auto mount all those share points every boot up.

type as root
pico /etc/fstab
fstab is a FILE

Do U have ICQ?

no sorry i dont have any chat clients installed on this machine at the moment

I edited the fstab file with this line

servername/tlarkin.fullcontext /mnt/servername ncp uid=root,gid=nwaccess,mode=660,owner=root,A=servername,passwdfile=/etc/ncp-pass 0 0

I created the proper pass word profiles added the groups, I guess what I am missing is how to exactly mount it.

I do have the google chat client running in my gmail tho

I think it is one minor step that I am missing

try to mount it from your deasktop.
Rightclick-new-device-hdd....
search for your mount and select it.
In this case only root can mount it.

so now my linux box boots up and tries to mount the netware drives on start up, you can see it trying to mount it, and it even displays my full context.

However, something is wrong and it hangs, how do I bypass this from start up?

Do, I have to boot up like run level 3 and then use a file editor via command line to edit this stuff?

So, should I boot up to single user mode? When I try to boot into linux it hangs when trying to mount the netware shares. It just sits there. I even let it sit there for a few minutes just incase there was some latency/bandwidth issues with our network.

okay, so the system just hang when fstab tried mounting the network shares completely. So i boot off the SuSE cd and did a resuce of the system and deleted those configs in fstab.

I think I figured out my problem though....

A couple questions I have about this, I have a user account set up in our novell systems, so I am going to use that user name instead of root.

Also, in my config line I left out the . before my user name, and novell requires the . (the dot) when logging in full context

so i think i should change this:

servername/tlarkin.fullcontext /mnt/servername ncp uid=root,gid=nwaccess,mode=660,owner=root,A=servername,passwdfile=/etc/ncp-pass 0 0

to this:

servername/.tlarkin.fullcontext /mnt/servername ncp uid=tlarkin,gid=nwaccess,mode=660,owner=tlarkin,A=servername,passwdfile=/etc/ncp-pass 0 0

oh well I am going to give it a shot and see what happens...,

well i ended up editing the /etc/rc.local file using the ncp mount commands, and i was able to authenticate and mount my file server's network drives.

However, for some reason fstab is just not wanting to cooperate.

Thanks for your help though, it seems that first link you gave me was the most helpful one. In the end I think I would like to use fstab to configure them just to see if I can get it to work.

okay one more final problem

it is definitely a permissions thing, and I can't seem to figure out.

there is a directory I created call /mnt which has sub folders for each server mount, there are two servers I want to mount.

I can mount them but only if I am root using the ncpmount command via terminal.

what do I need to do to make this happen at boot up every single time?

I added the line in /etc/fstab and I created a group called nwaccess and added another folder containing password files for the user logins for the novell file servers. It did not seem to work.