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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.uwa.edu.au!disco.iinet.net.au!news.uoregon.edu!newsfeed.internetmci.com!howland.reston.ans.net!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!usenet.ucs.indiana.edu!news From: jfieber@indiana.edu (John Fieber) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Serving Novell clients using FreeBSD Date: 30 May 1996 05:17:54 GMT Organization: Indiana University, Bloomington Lines: 28 Sender: jfieber@fallout.campusview.indiana.edu (John Fieber) Message-ID: <4ojb22$flo@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu> References: <4nppc7$fi1@charm.il.ft.hse.nl> <4ntshg$195@anorak.coverform.lan> NNTP-Posting-Host: fieber-john.campusview.indiana.edu X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.3 In-Reply-To: <4ntshg$195@anorak.coverform.lan> To: brian@awfulhak.demon.co.uk (Brian Somers) In article <4ntshg$195@anorak.coverform.lan>, brian@awfulhak.demon.co.uk (Brian Somers) writes: >Edwin Mons (edwinm@il.ft.hse.nl) wrote: >: Is there free software to serve files to Novell-clients? I do not >: have the resources to buy Netwar/NFS (or equiv.). > >No. But then, why are they Novell-clients if you don't have Netware ? Could be that he can't afford netware server software, and yet is surrounded by netware clients and servers owned by other people sharing the wires. Personally I'm in that situation. I can serve up stuff using samba, but have you ever tried jamming netware, msclient and a tcp/ip stack on a little old ms-dos machine? It leaves just about enough room to do...well...not much. The contortions you have to go through (not to mention the bugs in msclient) make setting up a unix box seem like a piece of cake. Some netware clients in this environment would be handy too, printing in particular. There are a couple perfectly good laser printers in the building, but the nearest one I can print to using unix is a good 20 minute walk away. (And no, the powers that be are not interested in installing the netware lpd server. <grr>) -john == jfieber@indiana.edu =========================================== == http://fallout.campusview.indiana.edu/~jfieber ================