Re: [SLUG] Maintaining files on a Novel Server from Linux box.

[DaZZa <dazza@nospam.zip.com.au>]

On Wed, 21 Jun 2000, Michael Lake wrote:

> The UTS here has just moved to a Novell Server and although
> I can ftp my files up telnet is turned off and ssh is not
> installed. Previously I ftp'ed my tarballed homepages up,
> telnetted in and unzipped and untarred my files. For small
> changes I edited base text files with vi and a script
> regenerated the html pages. They then went into their
> correct places.

Last time I looked, Novell didn't have a telnet service. You can FTP to
the box, but there's no way that I know of to telnet to it in its defautl
configuration.

I believe you can add products like Netware Connect to enable it, but good
luck getting your IS department to add them to a production server. Even
then, I'm not sure if it's going to give you access to the filesystem -
usually it'll only give you access to the console - a vastly different
thing on a Novell server.

{Above comments apply for NW 3.x and 4.x - I'm not sure if 5.x has a
telnet server in it yet.}

> Otherwise Novell clients for Linux, HTML page management
> apps with NDS support - what else? Any suggestions from
> experience?

Caldera has an NDS aware client for Linux to connect to Novell servers -
hell, they've got a Netware 4 _server_ which runs on Linux. The easiest
way would be to get the client, install it, and use ncopy - which does sub
directories etc.

Alternately, you could try and remote mount the Netware volume on your
Linux box, and then simply use the good old CP command. I've never done
this, but I understand it's possible.

DaZZa

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