From: [email protected]

I have had another thought, which is to mount giving also the
DNS name of the server with -A:

$ ncpmount -S UK-AC-MCC-NEWFS1 -U ZLSIIAL /local/home/zlsiial/novell
Logging into UK-AC-MCC-NEWFS1 as ZLSIIAL
Password:
ncpmount: Server not found (0x8847) when trying to find UK-AC-MCC-NEWFS1
$ ncpmount -A fs1.mcc.ac.uk -S uk-ac-mcc-newfs1 -U zlsiial /local/home/zlsiial/novell
Logging into uk-ac-mcc-newfs1 as ZLSIIAL
Password:
zlsiial@frankfurt:~$ ls novell/
SYS VOL3

As I want to do this from within a script, this might be an adequate
solution; it is a simple matter to look up the DNS name of the
appropriate server. I take it this means that the Novell routing
does not work properly on certain subnets, unless I specify a
DNS name, in which case that actually works.

-- Owen


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From: [email protected]

On 13 Aug 04 at 14:57, Dr A V Le Blanc wrote:

As I want to do this from within a script, this might be an adequate solution; it is a simple matter to look up the DNS name of the
appropriate server. I take it this means that the Novell routing
does not work properly on certain subnets, unless I specify a
DNS name, in which case that actually works.

Probably. If you do not specify -A, it attempts to establish IPX
connection, with using SAP and Bindery to resolve name to IPX address.
If you specify -A, it attempts to establish IP connection and
(currently) uses only DNS to resolve name to IPV4 address.

You can use '-o tcp' in addition to '-A' on ncpmount command line to
force it to use TCP instead of UDP connection - f.e. if you are going
through NAT or if server administrator disabled UDP.
Best regards,
Petr Vandrovec




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