[comp.dcom.lans] PC-Telnet with Novell Lan

japplega@csm9a.UUCP (Joe Applegate) (01/26/89)

Has anyone had any success in running NCSA's telnet software over
a network which also is running Novell Netware?

We recently hooked our lan to a bridge connected to the campus backbone
and found that Telnet and FTP work fine unless we log onto the Novell
server (2.0a) first... even logging out and removeing the Netware shell
from memory does no good.

Our Novell distributor merely asked "Telwhat?  That's not a Novell product!"

Surely others have a need to do remote logins from a lan???

Can anyone tell us what the problem is?  Or suggest a way to get around it
without checking out boot disks (most of our machines use boot roms!).

Joe Applegate - Colorado School of Mines Computing Center

bkc@sun.soe.clarkson.edu (Brad Clements) (01/30/89)

From article <1223@csm9a.UUCP>, by japplega@csm9a.UUCP (Joe Applegate):
> Has anyone had any success in running NCSA's telnet software over
> a network which also is running Novell Netware?
>

I think the best way to do this, is get the version of Novell that
uses FTP software's packet driver specification. Then get a packet
driver for the card you are using and get the new NCSA telnet that
uses the packet driver. 

I think this is exactly what the packet driver spec is all about.

I'm not sure how that will work w/ boot roms though, I guess it depends
on how your system boots up.

Brad Clements
Network Engineer
Clarkson University