IPX to Netware 5.1

I've been mounting Netware volumes from Netware 4.1x to linux for a quite a while now, works just fine.
We installed new Netware server with Netware 5.1 and I can't now mount any volumes. The error message is:
ncpmount: Unknown Server error (0x8901) in nds login Login denied.
The error is same if I try bindery login.
Any IPX gurus here or hints or links about ??

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Em Mon, Jun 11, 2001 at 03:50:39PM +0300, Lauri Tischler escreveu:

See if this makes sense:

http://developer.novell.com/support/sample/tids/bs98au6h/nwerrors.txt

#define ERR_INSUFFICIENT_SPACE          0x8901  /* 001 */
#define NWE_INSUFFICIENT_SPACE          0x8901  /* 001 */

And can you, just in case, check if IPX is enabled? ncpfs can work with tcp/ip as well and this can possibly be not related to IPX

- Arnaldo

On Mon, Jun 11, 2001 at 12:15:19PM -0300, Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo wrote:

The problem is related to the default NLSP (NetWare Link State Routing) stack loaded by default on NetWare versions 5.1 >. NLSP doesn't send RIP/SAP all the time, and if ipx_configure is set to --auto-interface=on --auto-primary=on, the ipx client in Linux will not set it's IPX address until it sees some traffic. This is usually a problem in setups with only one server on the entire network, since the server won't RIP/SAP right away.

Simply go to the NetWare 5.X server, and type at the console

:
:reset router
:

and this should cause the 5.1 server to send an old-style RIP/SAP frame which will then kick on all the Linux systems. You will notice that each time you turn off your linux machine, you will have to type this on the NetWare 5.x server console in order to get the server to kick out a RIP/SAP frame and allow the Linux box to auto-detect the network address. One way around this is to hard set the network address via ipx_configure and the problem is less troublesome.

Jeff

Yep. We did some testing and found that if the server has a RW replica of the partition your user ID exists in then the NDS login will work. Otherwise nothing works. Also if you have password restrictions such as minumum number of characters then most users must have a password that is exactly the minimum number of characters unless they have admin (supervisor) priviledges. Has us baffled.

We ended up making sure that the servers we use have RW replicas and that we use full context NDS logins.

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