Did you know that the NCP utilities for Linux are capable of mounting Netware 5 server volumes via IP as well as IPX? Up until this morning, I didn’t. I’ve been jumping through hoops for years, setting things up so that my Linux machines can see the fileserver. As of now, I have a lot fewer hoops to jump through.

For what it’s worth, the trick is to use the “-A xx.xx.xx.xx” option (or the “ipserver=xx.xx.xx.xx” in /etc/fstab if you’re doing it like I am). That tells the ncp code to use UDP instead of IPX. You still have to supply the server name, though.

Nifty. Damned nifty. Removing complexity is a good thing.