HOWTO: Install Novel Client on Ubuntu

[asaturn]

try that with all IP addresses...

[Mttechserv]

Same deal when I replaced the DNS Server's name with it's IP address. Or with the alternate DNS server's address.
Only a little odd, I find...

[asaturn]

I want to meet the guy who got this working the first time with no problems. or the guy at novell in charge of client development on linux and ask him to rationalize why novell doesn't have an official version that works on anything but their $50 linux suite.

[Mttechserv]

Trust me, I do agree with you there.
I've been using linux for over 5 years now, often times from an administrative point of view... 3 years now using strictly Ubuntu... and I've never once seen anything this complex to get running.
I really wish that using Alien to convert the Novell RPMs to Debian packages worked... but of course, there's some stricly SUSE dependencies thrown in... mostly due to the fact that Novell is an aging dinosaur, and scared of the threat that Ubuntu poses to them. Sad, really... that a company that used to be a major competitor in the network server field is scared of an Open Source project... lol.

In my case, I'm not too worried about it, though it would help me out. All I have to do is boot to Windows ( Which I despise ) and copy the files over... nothing major, but quite an annoyance...
I'm Kind of wondering what a Virtual Machine under Ubuntu might do... might try that out later today... though it seems to be needless work to copy a few files to the network for a backup...

[asaturn]

try Innotek Virtualbox

I tried the command line login, got the -330 error just like the novel client gets! (invalid server response)

maybe this is a protocol compatibility issue?

if I don't type out my full novell context and I use just my username, I get error: ncpmount: No such entry (-601) in nds login. Login denied.

[Mttechserv]

As far as I can see, the (-601) seems to simply indicate that it can't find your user ( and without the NDS context, this does seem pretty normal )
It would seem to be some form of protocol issue, either server side, or client side...

Thanks for the suggestion, btw.

[ycardinal]

I downgraded my ncpfs package to 2.2.6-3.

I am now getting the following error:

Error: Could not mount server.
failed:ncpmap must be installed suid root

[Antikx]

I downgraded my ncpfs package to 2.2.6-3.

I am now getting the following error:

Error: Could not mount server.
failed:ncpmap must be installed suid root

See:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php...0&postcount=19

[ycardinal]

Thank you fro your great help, that worked but now I'm getting the following error:

Error: Cannot map home directory.
failed:Volume path 'NEWHOME///USERNAME' is
invalid: 'Invalid argument'

[Antikx]

Thank you fro your great help, that worked but now I'm getting the following error:

Error: Cannot map home directory.
failed:Volume path 'NEWHOME///USERNAME' is
invalid: 'Invalid argument'

Your welcome.
hmmm... can you try doing a command line mount (see one of my previous posts) you may be able to figure out what you need to plug into the client easier that way.
I don't know your Novell environment and I'm not really a Novell Admin, but I'll try and help the best I can. My guess is that you may need to put something different for your tree, or it's having problems creating a directory in your Linux home directory because of all the forward slashes. I'm not sure why you are seeing so many slashes. hmmm