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Xref: sserve comp.os.linux.development:22776 comp.os.386bsd.development:3061 Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!yarrina.connect.com.au!news.mira.net.au!news.netspace.net.au!serval.net.wsu.edu!netnews.nwnet.net!oracle.pnl.gov!osi-east2.es.net!lll-winken.llnl.gov!uwm.edu!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!news.sprintlink.net!news.cloud9.net!cloud9.net!tls From: tls@cloud9.net (Thor Lancelot Simon) Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.development,comp.os.386bsd.development Subject: Re: SAMBA and NETWARE mounting Date: 23 Jan 1995 15:43:28 GMT Organization: Cloud 9 Internet, White Plains, New York, USA Lines: 25 Message-ID: <3g0ir1$9kc@news.cloud9.net> References: <3eo2j1$l5o@uqcspe.cs.uq.oz.au> <D267uw.Grq@park.uvsc.edu> <D2HtyC.EnD@info.swan.ac.uk> <3fup7s$66o@NE3995.rabo.nl> NNTP-Posting-Host: cloud9.net In article <3fup7s$66o@NE3995.rabo.nl>, Fons Botman <botman@rabo.nl> wrote: >Alan Cox (iialan@iifeak.swan.ac.uk) wrote: >: This much information is already around. A lot of network snoopers can take >: the simpler Netware protocol requests apart. I got as far as reading/writing >: files, cd and a couple of login bits before it became apparent that waiting >: for Undocumented Netware was easier 8) > >I thought so too, but waiting for "Undocumented Netware" turns out to be >like waiting for win95. At least three small-to-middlin' companies that I know of have started with the Berkeley XNS implementation and implemented the whole run of Netware services, including the network filesystem, with no exposure to Novell code or documentation. I used to work for one. Novell threatened to sue, and our product didn't happen -- no great loss as it was done primarily in several people's spare time, and the company invested essentially no development funds. I wouldn't want to try it myself (and wasn't much involved in 1990 or so when I saw aforementioned project happen) but given a few brilliant people it didn't seem an enormous task. -- Thor Lancelot Simon tls@cloud9.net Somewhere they're meeting on a pinhead, calling you an angel.