HOWTO: Install Novel Client on Ubuntu

[porter238]

I get an error when I try to login. I can view the Tree and Context.

failed;server BLAH belongs to tree BLAH2 and you are not authorized to it

or at times I get

Could not mount server. failed:ncplogin: Server not found (0x8847) when trying to find BLAH

Of course BLAH and BLAH2 are not the real server/tree.

I am getting the same error. The "Not authorized to it" error. Please advise. Thanks.

[Weazl2000]

I am getting the same error. The "Not authorized to it" error. Please advise. Thanks.

I am also receiving this error

[Weazl2000]

I'm wondering if this has something to do with LDAP, Is there something else I have to do?

[mezcla]

I'm getting the same error as well. I've tried to mount to the server using ncpmount as well but neither are working for me. Any help would be much appreciated.

failed;server BLAH belongs to tree BLAH2 and you are not authorized to it

[ycardinal]

I am getting the same error, please help us!

failed;server BLAH belongs to tree BLAH2 and you are not authorized to it

[Antikx]

After pulling my hair out all day, I figured it out. Ya!
Downgrade your ncpfs package to 2.2.6-3
There is a bug in 2.2.6-4 that causes this exact problem on Gutsy.

Because I'm all about the love I'll even link to the package:
http://packages.ubuntu.com/edgy/net/ncpfs

Install it via command line:

sudo dpkg -i packagename.deb

Please, post below if this helped, or didn't help.

[Mttechserv]

Hey there...
Just stepped back to 2.2.6-3 ( ncpfs ) and I still seem to be having the same issue.

First rolled back ncpfs itself. Same issue.
Then rolled back libncp. Same issue
Then rolled back libpam-ncp. Same issue.

Not a lot of time to play with this right now, but if anyone has any suggestions, I'm willing to listen.

[asaturn]

I downgraded all 3 ncp packages in dependent order... then I got this error:

ncpmap must be installed suid root

... so I used this command:

sudo chmod u+s `which ncpmap`

... which gets rid of that error and brings back this error:

Error: Could not mount server.
failed:Server servername.abc.def belong to tree ABC
and you are not authenticated to it

does this have anything to do with SLP?

[Antikx]

Yes, in order to run the client as a regular user I had to do the following as well:

	sudo chmod u+s /usr/bin/ncplogin 
	sudo chmod u+s /usr/bin/ncpmap
	sudo chmod u+s /usr/bin/ncpmount
	sudo chmod u+s /usr/bin/ncpumount

Not sure if I needed to do all of them, but oh well.

can you mount via commandline?
This is the kind of string I'm using to test:

ncpmount -S 130.179.19.56 -A hsl-nw.cc.umanitoba.ca -U username.hsl.corporate.local.umb -V hsl -u username /mnt/novell/

[Mttechserv]

This gets more and more interesting... if I attempt to log in via a command line, here is what I get... ( some things replaced for security, of course )

mturner@cfs-testbed:~$ ncpmount -S 198.XXX.XX.XX -A blahdns.blah -U mfturner.blah.blahgov -u mturner /home/mturner/mnt/novell/
Logging into 198.XXX.XX.XX as MFTURNER.BLAH.BLAHGOV
Password:
Get host address `blahdns.blah': Server not found (0x8847)

Next, the odd part...
Blahdns.blah is one of the two internal name servers... it is pingable, responds to nslookup, etc... though it is on a different subnet from myself. I am also unsure if there are firewalls separating the subnets, etc. ( This is a gov't office, none of this information if available to me )

Though, when I boot into Windows XP ( it's a dual boot machine ) - I log in... no issues.