There is certainly not enough material to call this an FAQ, but some questions reach me regularly. Probably the documentation is not clear enough. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Q: The ncpfs utilities like slist or ncpmount tell me that they can not find a server, although I'm sure there are servers on my net. What's wrong? You probably used ipx_configure --auto_interface=on --auto_primary=on and you have Windows (95?) workstations on your network. Windows 95 makes Linux configure IPX interfaces for non-existent frame types. To solve this problem, you have to configure your IPX interface manually with the command ipx_interface add -p <device> <frame> For <device> use eth0, eth1 or whatever you network adapter is called. The value for <frame> must match the frame type used on your network. Possible values are 802.2, 802.3, SNAP and EtherII. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Q: I have difficulties with NetWare 4.1. What can I do? To be honest, I do not really know. Currently my only test equipment is a NetWare 3.11 server. You should make your 4.1 Server as 3.x-compatible as it can be. As I do not know 4.1, you are on your own doing this. A promising hint that has already helped some people is to switch off packet signatures on the 4.1 server, as ncpfs does not support them. Note: ncpfs, as of 2.0.12, and kernel 2.1.89, does now support packet signatures. Note2: My test environment currently consist of couple of NW4.11/NW5 servers. I have no 3.x servers around anymore. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Q: When I re-export ncpfs-mounted directories via nfs, I get messages like 'pwd: cannot get current directory', and other strange things happen to the nfs clients. What's wrong? When you want to export a directory via NFS, you have to do two things: - You have to invoke mountd and nfsd with the option --re-export. On my computer, both are invoked at system startup from the file /etc/rc.d/rc.inet2. - You can not export a complete NetWare server hierarchy with all volumes under a single mount point. You have to mount a single server volume to make it re-exportable. Invoke ncpmount with the option -V volume to do this. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Q: I cannot login into server with these utilities. It was possible with an older version. A: You are probably connecting into Netware 4.x or IntraNetware. If you want a temporary workaround, add the option "-b" to the ncpmount commandline. For the future you should determine your Directory Services user name and use that instead of your bindery name. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Q: I found bug. What I should do? A: Report it to "Petr Vandrovec" <vandrove@vc.cvut.cz>.