On Thu, 2005-03-24 at 20:16 -0600, Paul wrote:
> On Thu, 2005-03-24 at 18:39 -0700, Craig White wrote:
> > On Thu, 2005-03-24 at 19:33 -0600, Paul wrote:
> > > On Tue, 2005-03-22 at 22:22 -0600, Paul wrote:
> > > > I have one last RH 7.3 system that I want to convert to CentOS 4, but I
> > > > can't find the ncpfs utilities that I used to use to mount Netware
> > > > shares.
> > > >
> > > > Has support been removed from the 3.x and 4?
> > >
> > > Well I dug though the RH's site and in the release notes for AS 3.95 ite
> > > mentionsed that ncpfs has been deprecated. I can't find the release
> > > notes for 4, but assume that they must have removed support in the
> > > kernel along with the package.
> > >
> > > It looks like I've reached a dead-end unless I want to build a custom
> > > version of the kernel for this workstation each time a new one comes
> > > out. That looks to be more work than continuing with it as it is and
> > > using fedoralegacy updates.
> > >
> > > Anybody have other ideas?
> > >
> > ----
> > See if SuSE has a source rpm
> >
>
> I nabbed the src.rpm from FC3 and built it ... it only halfway works
> because of lack of ncpfs support in the kernel. It finds the server and
> authenticates, but can't mount the volume.
>
> Personally I only want to support one "flavor" of Linux ... in the past
> that has been "RH & RH based". Since we are a Netware shop it's looking
> like SuSE may be a better choice ... shame there is not a rebuild
> project like CentOS.
>
> I used SuSE 9 at home for a year as my main desktop and I did not really
> like it. I don't like YaST and not a fan of KDE either ... maybe I'm
> too set in my ways.
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yeah - I don't know what I was thinking - without the kernel module -
the utilities aren't worth much.
SuSE (Debian, Gentoo) or compile your own kernel - it isn't that hard to
do. That does rather bite - one of these moments I'm gonna have to see
if they included appletalk module in RHEL 4 since I do have a number of
customers that need that - it was in kernel-unsupported in RHEL 3 which
makes me suspicious that I too may be sailing the same seas as you are.
Craig
