Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 5 Nov 1997 23:46:03 +0000 (GMT) | From | Tim Ricketts <> | Subject | Re: Bill's NCPFS patch. |
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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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