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From: jqj@rt-jqj.stanford.edu (JQ Johnson)
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Subject: Re: Remote access to Ethernet Novell Clients from Unix
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Date: 10 Jan 90 21:10:52 GMT
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In article <21698@uflorida.cis.ufl.EDU> mw@beach.cis.ufl.edu ()
writes:
>I believe Novell sells a TCP gateway that will allow 1 host on the TCP side 
>to access the Netware at a given time.  
Dunno about such a Novell product, but Interlan sells a gateway that
plugs into a Novell file server or IPX router (aka "bridge") and gives
TCP/IP users access to *that server's* file system via FTP.  Not necessarily
what you want, since the user interface (FTP) isn't great, and since it
doesn't generalize well to a multiple-Novell-server environment.  Some
alternatives:

1/ a SUN 386i (possibly with 2 Ethernet interfaces?) can talk both
TCP/IP and Netware/IPX simultaneously.  This hardware platform would
give you a number of options for building gateway functionality.  For
example (I haven't tried it), you might be able to simply import a
Novell filesystem and re-export it as an NFS filesystem).  The
advantage of this approach is that you have a Unix platform on which to
build complex gateway functionality.

2/ Given a PC running DOS, you could probably set your machine up as a
Novell workstation, importing some number of Novell disks, then use the
publicly available SOS (Stan's Own Server) NFS server code for the PC
to re-export them as NFS filesystem.  Such a scheme would, of course,
not do any authentication translation:  access to the Novell files
would be governed by whatever user ID the PC was logged in as.

3/ Perhaps the simplest scheme:  take a PC running DOS and a Netware
shell, and run the public domain NCSA Telnet FTP server on it as well.
This has the same user-interface disadvantages as the Interlan gateway,
plus does no authentication translation.  But it's cheap; you can build
a gateway for $700.  Since you get source code for NCSA Telnet, you
might be able to hack the FTP server to do a Novell login/logout for
you based on the FTP user and password lines.  You could do the same
thing with any of the commercial TCP/IP packages for the PC, of course,
modulo the cost of a binary or source license.
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