From rick Thu Jan 9 01:34:14 2003
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Quoting Paolo Marchiori (paolo@marchiori.net):

> And for NDS, mars-nwe does everything for you.

Unless it's been radically changed since I last looked, mars-nwe (Martin
Stover's NetWare Emulator) is modelled after NetWare _3.x_, and
therefore doesn't even support single login among multiple servers, not
to mention all the other aspects of NDS. In other words, nothing like
NDS, at all.

Checking...
http://systemhaus.gkdmedien.de/mars_nwe/

Hmm, my German isn't quite adequate to the task. Maybe someone else can
interpret.

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Cheers, "My file system's got no nodes!"
Rick Moen "How does it shell?"
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From rick Wed Oct 8 00:25:36 2003
Date: Wed, 8 Oct 2003 00:25:36 -0700
To: linux-questions-only@ssc.com
Subject: Re: [TAG] Exporting linux durectories to NDS
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> How can I export linux directiories to Novell Directory server? Right
> now I'm using an emulator (MARS) on linux. But the problem is that NDS
> is not discovering that. "map" command also doesnt work. Are there
> any other way we can do this?

Sajeev, MARS_NWE (MARtin Stover's NetWare Emulator) is unfortunately,
not really the right tool for that. Please see its maintainer's page,
at http://www.compu-art.de/mars_nwe/ .

In essence, the problem is that MARS_NWE emulates NetWare 3.x, the
pre-NDS versions -- and has been (if I recall correctly) developed only
to add minimal amounts of NDS support.

Searching for prior Linux Gazette coverage on the NDS/eDirectory matter:
http://www.linuxgazette.com/issue32/tag_NDS.html
You'll note that a company called Caldera features prominently in that.
E.g., http://www.caldera.com/support/docs/netware/linuxclient/
Too bad what happened to them.

Fortunately, you can get Novell's very good proprietary eDirectory
software for Linux, instead: http://www.novell.com/products/edirectory/

The open-source ncpfs also does pretty well for client access, and is
included (along with pieces of MARS_NWE and the ipxutils) in an
open-source suite called the Netwhere Client for Linux:
http://forge.novell.com/modules/xfmod/project/?nwcunix

It's possible that only the Novell-branded solution will work for some
configurations and/or some recent NetWare versions -- given Novell's
evolution of the NetWare Core Protocol stack and NDS operation over
time. I don't know that for a fact (have never had occasion to use any
of that software), but just wanted to warn you of the possibility.

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