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Bug 2569

Summary:	Cannot find Novell servers
Product:	[Retired] Red Hat Linux	Reporter:	tcc1000
Component:	ncpfs	Assignee:	David Lawrence <dkl>
Status:	CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE	QA Contact:
Severity:	high	Docs Contact:
Priority:	medium
Version:	6.0	CC:	chaimf, michael.redinger, persteinar.iversen
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Hardware:	i386
OS:	Linux
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Last Closed:	1999-05-11 16:35:21 UTC	Type:	---
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Description tcc1000 1999-05-05 11:51:55 UTC

slist does not list any servers, error message:

slist: No server found in ncp_open

ncpmount does not work either - it can't find any servers
either.

tcpdump shows that there is a broadcast and some form of
communication, but this doesn't last as long as correct
conversation.

Contrib version 2.2.0-2 works fine, so it's definitely in
ncpfs package.

Comment 1 Bill Nottingham 1999-05-10 20:02:59 UTC

are you running this as root or another user?

Comment 2 tcc1000 1999-05-11 09:58:59 UTC

CORRECTION: ncpmount, etc. appear to work correctly.

slist fails to work either as root or another user

UNLESS logged in to a Novell server, in which case it works correctly
both as root and another user. I hope this helps.

Comment 3 Bill Nottingham 1999-05-11 14:56:59 UTC

*** Bug 2692 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

slist does not work, it just returns:

slist: No server found in ncp_open

ncpmount and other IPX utilities work well,
no problems copying files from linux to multiple
Netware servers.


------- Additional Comments From tcc1000.uk  05/11/99 06:00 -------
Same as bug 2569.

Comment 4 Bill Nottingham 1999-05-11 16:35:59 UTC

Will be fixed in ncpfs 2.2.0.14-1, which will be in the next
Raw Hide release. Meanwhile, here's a patch.

--- ncpfs-2.2.0.14/lib/ncplib.c.orig	Tue May 11 12:02:49 1999
+++ ncpfs-2.2.0.14/lib/ncplib.c	Tue May 11 12:09:21 1999
@@ -1111,7 +1111,10 @@
 		sprintf(b1, "%d", type);
 		buf2[1] = "-t";
 		buf2[2] = b1;
-		buf2[3] = server;
+	        if (strlen(server)==0)
+	          buf2[3] = NULL;
+	        else
+		  buf2[3] = server;
 		buf2[4] = NULL;

 		err = exec_nwsfind(buf, sizeof(buf), buf2);

Comment 5 Bill Nottingham 1999-05-13 15:53:59 UTC

*** Bug 2787 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

When last used under 5.2, slist correctly returned a list
of available netware servers.

Under 6.0 this requires that some server be mounted.

Sounds like a catch-22 doesn't it.

Comment 6 Michael Redinger 1999-06-08 17:02:59 UTC

Hm, I just upgraded to 2.2.0.15 (rpm package from rawhide). Doesn't
work either ...