!NWClient
Here is the latest working version of !NWClient, a program that
allows you to access a Novell NetWare®
file server from your Acorn RiscOS machine.
This software is now finally getting to the point where all the obvious
problems have been fixed, and from now on it can be considered to be
no longer beta software, but instead released software. There are still
likely to be minor problems, and if you find one I'd like to hear from
you.
Mailing list
There is a mailing
list for discussions about !NWClient on
onelist.com.
Features
- Convenient access to file server, no need to have NFS and a Linux box.
- Data rates of over 900KB/s (using decent ethernet cards).
- Uses OS/2-style extended attributes to store RiscOS file type.
- Supports long file names if you have long name space loaded.
- Supports 10-character and 8/3-character file names on DOS file space.
Requirements
- Acorn RiscPC or other Acorn machine with RiscOS 3.1 or later.
- A network card that supports the DCI4 specification, preferably not an EtherM.
- Lanmanfs module not loaded.
- Novell NetWare™ 3.x, 4.x or 5.x. (2.x not tested)
OS2.NAM or LONG.NAM loaded on file server
(optional, but nicer).
- OS2 or LONG name space added to every volume you'll want to use from RiscOS.
Known bugs and limitations
- Login scripts are not read nor executed.
- Packet burst and long packets not supported (although we fake it using
some kind of magic streaming mode).
- This is not a full NDS aware client, so it does not support aliases and will find
users only in the file-server's or the bindery context.
Recent improvements [1.72]
- Added interactive help (!Help) to NWFiler.
- Internal changes to all modules to use new module library.
- Replaced Attach and Login programs with a new NWClient Filer module task.
- Now can invent file types from whole file names (e.g. !Run->Obey).
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