Very Computer

Hi,

Our corporate network has some Novell shares. At the moment we're
unable to mount the shares with Linux. The error we get is:

ncpmount: No referrals (-634) in nds login
Login denied.

I know one solution is adding a replica, but that's not possible in
our situation. (too much effort for a very small group of Linux users)

The network card I use is a Madge Token Ring 100/16/4 PCI card:

May 19 10:34:13 locutus kernel: Madge Token Ring Linux Driver v2.31
SMP
May 19 10:34:01 locutus sysctl: net.ipv4.ip_forward = 0
May 19 10:34:13 locutus kernel: Copyright (c) 1999 Madge Networks Ltd
May 19 10:34:01 locutus sysctl: net.ipv4.conf.default.rp_filter = 1
May 19 10:34:13 locutus kernel: tr0: Madge Smart 100/16/4 PCI Ringnode
at ac00 IRQ 22 PCI Bus 2 DevFn 50
May 19 10:34:01 locutus sysctl: kernel.core_uses_pid = 1
May 19 10:34:13 locutus kernel: tr0: BIA: 004081050C94 Force Ring
Speed: Auto
May 19 10:34:01 locutus network: Setting network parameters:
succeeded
May 19 10:34:13 locutus kernel: tr0: Tx Slots: 4 Rx Slots: 16
MaxFrameLen: 2040
May 19 10:34:01 locutus network: Bringing up loopback interface:
succeeded
May 19 10:34:13 locutus kernel: tr0: The adapter has opened in classic
mode at 16 MBit/s
May 19 10:34:08 locutus network: Bringing up interface tr0:  succeeded

My machine is running Linux 2.4.19 and all other network related stuff
is working alright.

With the 'slist' command I can see all Novell servers in the network.

A collegue of mine uses an 2.2.x kernel and she was able to mount her
Novell share. But, since the Novell people changed something in the
network (the moved the authentication server to another segment), she
some 'server not found' error. (slist works for her as well)

This could mean that the versions of 'ncpmount' we use are different,
but I'm not sure about that.

For me the ncpmount command (or novelclient for that matter) never
worked before, for her it did. We both use the same token ring card, I
had to compile a module (from the Madge site), (with a patch for
2.4.x) that wasn't in the kerneltree.

Please give me some suggestions on how to fix this. :-)

Kind regards,

Jasper Aukes

If networking works otherwise, the problem likely has nothing to do with the
network card.

--

Fundamentalism is fundamentally wrong.

james.knott.

Hello,

I found out, that when I connect to the server containing the
authentication database, I can perfectly mount the Novell server's
shares. So I guess the solution to my problem is, mounting a share
from server B while using server A as authentication-server.

Is this possible with ncpmount (I can't find it in the man-page)

Kind regards,

Jasper Aukes