ncpmount + Debian

[elewin]

I just installed Debian 3.0 on my computer and wanted to mount a volume from the Novell-server. Unfortunatly I always get the message: ncpmount :No such device in mount (2). The server, Ip-adress, username and mountpoint are correct (It used to work with Suse 8.0)
I hope that somebody can help me
Elewin

[Cadillac84]

I use ncpmount to connect to my NetWare 3.12 server from a RedHat 7.3 box (2.4.18) and I just checked the version in case that is part of your problem.

ncpmount -v

returns: ncpfs version 2.2.0.18

I'm assuming that Deb 3.0 is still a 2.4.x kernel(?)

My Novell is IPX (assume yours is also as I've been told that ncpmount doesn't work (hope I'm wrong) with the IP only NetWare).

Have you remembered to set up IPX on your eth1?

My script /etc/sysconfig/network

contains:

# Attempt to set up NetWare volume mounting
IPX=yes
IPXAUTOPRIMARY=on
IPXAUTOFRAME=on
IPXAUTOINTERNALNETNUM=0

Good luck with that. I don't have a printer on my Linux apparati, so having the NetWare connection is very handy. Also, the boss likes to look at the Internet usage logs every day and it is nice to be able to have them posted on VOL_2: for him every morning when he comes in at 3:45 a.m. (Sometimes I meet him coming in when I'm going home! :)

Hope I was able to remind you of whatever simple thing it was that slipped through the crack in the changeover.

By the way, I REALLY REALLY LIKE SuSE 8.0 and I'm using the RedHat only because I got it started before I got a copy of SuSE 8. I want to try Debian 3.0 when I get some time. Isn't it great that the computers we get to do this with are so readily available for so little $$$.


Good luck.
Chuck Moore

[rustskull]

type modconf.

go through the selections until you find the one for novell stuff.

if it's not been loaded, add it in.

see if that helps.

You should have also invoked the bf24 option when installing debian. There's novell support in the 2.2.x kernels, but I'm not sure if it's what you need. I know it's there, though, but not by default (IIRC) in debian's distro. The 2.2 kernel is still the default on debian, you have to invoke the 2.4 one manually by saying bf24 at the install boot prompt.

It was unloaded during potato and woody installs for me, I think if it;s not something a great majority of people would need or a possible security risk that debian tends to not do it by default. I know the pcmcia package installs are annoying, but they're critical to people trying to install to laptops.

-rust