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SubjectRe: Bill's NCPFS patch.
On Wed, 5 Nov 1997, Troels Arvin wrote:

> I tried Bill's latest NCPFS patch for 2.1.61 (on a 2.1.62).
>
> Before the patch, all I could do was to create an IPX interface, showing
> normal values in /proc/sys/net/ipx*
>
> An impovement after Bill's patch is that I can now get a result of
> 'slist' (which lists the 'available' servers).
>
> But apart from that, nothing works here :-(
>
> A 'nwuserlist -S server -U user -P password' doesn't produce any kernel
> messages (provided that the modules are already loaded). However,
> nwuserlist responds:
> ncp_reply_size 0 <8
> ncp_reply_size 0 <54

I haven't applied the patch (I'm using a clean 2.1.62 tree) but I get
exactly the same results - slist works but nwuserlist etc don't.


> I'm testing on a RedHat 4.9.1 (beta) which uses glibc. RedHat has
> patched the ncp utilities (ncpfs-2.0.11) in order to make them compile

I'm using RedHat 4.2 with ipxutils-1.0-1 and ncpfs-2.0.5-4 so this is
probably irrelevant.

> How can I contribute to the development of the kernel ncp filesystem
> support at this point? - What kinds of tests should I do?

--
Tim
Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum viditur.


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