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Re: Connecting to NOVELL, USING its PRINTER



Shalom Shay, 

Thanks for your detailled answer,


Shay Rojansky wrote:
> 
> > Is someone know if I can connect my Linux box to a Novell, and do remote
> > printing, ie. use its printers. If yes, HOW ?
> 
> There are three ways I know of to connect (and print) to a Novell server.
> 
> The first one, which I strongly recommend, is using ncpfs. It's a free
> Novell client that supports both Novell-filesystem mounting and printing
> via a Novell server's queues and works great as far as I know:
> linux01.gwdg.de/pub/ncpfs
> 
> The second one is getting Caldera. Caldera is a commercial distribution
> that adds many things, including interfaces, office tools, and Novell
> client features. 

Do you know something about ELF / Motif and Caldera ? 

Is Someone running Caldera / ELF  / Motif  box, that can tell me some
about this ?  


> If the ONLY thing you need is Novell client features,
> there's no reason to pay for something that's free.
> 
> The third one (and the one I personally despise most) is buying Netware NFS.
> Netware NFS is a set of NLMs that run on the Novell server and provide Unix
> services. For example, it allows NFS mounting of its filesystems, Unix
> access to its print queues, etc.
> 
> Shay
> 
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> Shay Rojansky, roji@cs.huji.ac.il                 Finger for PGP public key


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