Novell Client End?

Novell Client End?

[Kent Borg]

Has anyone ever done any Linux work on Novell protocols--but the
client end?  (Specifically, for a printer?)

(Anyone know they could write such a thing with ease?)


Thanks,

-kb

Re: Novell Client End?

[Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo]

Em Thu, Sep 13, 2001 at 12:30:11PM -0400, Kent Borg escreveu:
> Has anyone ever done any Linux work on Novell protocols--but the
> client end?  (Specifically, for a printer?)

> (Anyone know they could write such a thing with ease?)

you mean nprint/rprint? That needs SPX and SPX is humm, unmaintained and
incomplete in Linux as of now, I plan to do some work on it in the future,
to have nprint/rprint working in Linux, docs are available at the Novell
site.

- Arnaldo

Re: Novell Client End?

[Petr Vandrovec]

On 13 Sep 01 at 12:30, Kent Borg wrote:

> Has anyone ever done any Linux work on Novell protocols--but the
> client end?  (Specifically, for a printer?)

What do you think by this? You can use 'pserver' from ncpfs, which
attaches to some job queue on Netware server and processes jobs in the
queue.

If you are talking about rprinter protocol, then you are lost, as rprinter
needs SPX, and SPX implementation in Linux is a bit fragile - and besides
that, you can configure Netware Printserver to use lpd protocol, so there
is no need for that.

If you have further questions, you should join linware@sh.cvut.cz (send
subscribe linware to listserv@sh.cvut.cz), IPX & NCP are discussed there
(long ago there was linux-ipx on vger.rutgers.edu, but it is really long
time ago).
                                        Best regards,
                                                Petr Vandrovec
                                                vandrove@vc.cvut.cz