dixon@gumby.paradyne.com (Tom Dixon) (01/09/90)
Greetings, Is there any software available that will allow me remotely access pc's plugged into my ethernet running novell from my Unix host? Also, is there a public domain remote access program available for ethernetted pcs? This could be worked into what I want to do, if I had the source.... Tom Dixon AT&T Paradyne dixon@pdn.paradyne.com uunet!pdn!dixon
mw@beach.cis.ufl.edu (Michael Wohlgemuth) (01/10/90)
In article <6918@pdn.paradyne.com> dixon@gumby.paradyne.com (Tom Dixon) writes: >Is there any software available that will allow me remotely access >pc's plugged into my ethernet running novell from my Unix host? I believe Novell sells a TCP gateway that will allow 1 host on the TCP side to access the Netware at a given time. Mike
jqj@rt-jqj.stanford.edu (JQ Johnson) (01/11/90)
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. JQ Johnson voice: 415-723-3078 Manager, Special Projects Internet: jqj@jessica.stanford.edu Networking and Communications Systems Pine Hall Rm 125-A Stanford University Stanford, CA 94305-4122