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I would like to mount netWare service on my linux. Could someone give me example how such a line should looks like in fstab?

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From the directions here,

EXAMPLE:

1) Verify the installation of ncpfs:

linux~# rpm -q
ncpfs-2.6.6-7

2) Create a mountpoint for the server

linux~# mkdir /mnt/myserver

3) Create a group to assign the filerights to

linux~# groupadd nwaccess

4) Assign users to the defined group

linux~# usermod -G nwaccess veerh01

5) Create a password file

linux~# echo myserver/myuser.location.nds:mypassword >/etc/ncp-pass
linux~# chmod 600 /etc/ncp-pass

6) create a mount line in /etc/fstab - that is edit /etc/fstab with your favorite editor and add a line to it with the following definitions:

<server/user> <mountpoint> ncp uid=root,gid=<group>,mode=660,owner=root,A=<server>,passwdfile=/etc/ncp-pass     0 0

For the example described above it becomes:

myserver/myuser.location.nds /mnt/myserver ncp uid=root,group=nwaccess,mode=660,owner=root,A=myserver,passwdfile=/etc/ncp-pass 0 0
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    My share looks like this: \\SMTH\SMT\SMT and there's no user. On windows machine I see this share on my J drive. I usnderstand that I need ncpfs but still don't know how that fstab line should looks like in my case.
    – s1c
    Mar 14, 2014 at 13:42
  • If you don't need to actually read and write the files, why do you need the share? If you do need to read and write the files, you need a user. Mar 14, 2014 at 13:44
  • humm I guess you right, so I could use the same user which Im using when login to novel network on my windows pc. So lets say my user name is test and my password is stored in that ncp-pass file. How this line shoould looks now?
    – s1c
    Mar 14, 2014 at 14:02
  • Also, it's so your Linux user has permissions to the filesystem once mounted. Mar 14, 2014 at 14:10
  • Ok after few tries I finally understand this and it works. Thank you.
    – s1c
    Mar 14, 2014 at 14:58
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We (still) run a mixed back of netware and OES servers.

To attach to the netware servers we tell our users to use the following cifs command:

sudo mount -t cifs //NETWARESERVER/VOLUMENAME /mount/point/ -o username=USERNAME,file_mode=0777,dir_mode=0777,sec=ntlm

The most important part in that is the sec=ntlm since netware is running an earlier version of cifs.

To attach to OES servers we tell the users to run the same command, but without the sec-ntlm option.

If you're adding this to fstab I think you would need to also add a password=PASSWORD to the options too.

Hope that helps.

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