"map" a netware 5.1 Volume to Solaris

[Harfe]

Hi @all,

I want to use a netware volume as a ressource for a solaris server. I use Netware 5.1 and Solaris 8
How can I mount the netware volume?

Thanks for all answers

 

[sstoppel]

I am not a Solaris guy, but if the volume is traditional you can add the NFS namespace, and if it is NSS it should already be mountable as a remote volume by Solaris. There may be some configuration of the authentication methods required.

I will google some about it and post again.

 

[ITsmyfault]

you need to use a product called Novell Native File Access. It shipped with Netware 6 & 6.5. This "announces" the netware volumes via CIFS, NFS and AFP and then your Solaris box can mount the Netware volume. We use this feature here to run our accounting system which is Solaris based, but saved us lots of $$ by giving us a journalled file system for "free" rather than buying Veritas Foundation suite etc. It works great, just make sure you use a "soft" mount on the Solaris side. This way if you're doing maintenance on the Netware box, the Solaris box won't get hung up.

I believe you can purchase it to install on a 5.x box, although 5.1 is at end of life so I don't know if you'll be able to get support etc if you need it. If you have upgrade assurance it might be a better value to just upgrade the server & get NFA (*and new functionality like iFolder, Netstorage, Apache, mysql, ssh, etc.) for free essentially.