I'm cleaning up some old scsi disks i have not used in a while, and because i used to be a novell CNE (MCNE at some point) some of the disks contain netware partitions / volumes.
So, i'm wondering if these netware partitions with their volumes contain any data that i could recover. Is there a simple way to mount these volumes on a windows XP box? That is - without building a complete netware 4.x / 5.x server...
The hardware part of the job is done, i can access the DOS partition on the scsi disk just fine. Now if there only was a way to mount the netware volumes... XP disk manager sees only "Healthy (unknown partition)".
I just realized that Suse linux was bought by Novell... Would a Suse system be ably to mount these volumes?
Thanks
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Because i don't want to go through the work of building a netware server in order to get access to the data.
In the mean time i found out that there IS such a thing as netware file system driver for linux and windows.
http://forgeftp.novell.com
http://developer.novell.co
I'll see if i can get this thing to work.
Found an installable executable at
http://mirrors.zoreil.com/
And guess what? It actually works! I can now mount the netware volume SYS as a drive under XP, and have full access to the netware file system.
Waalll... hush my mouth and feed me chitlins....
Looks like I don't get by Novell's DeveloperNet Forge as often as I should. 'Course, would help if I was a programmer....
Good finds, when you request your points back (since you solved this one yourself) it'd be nice if this Question was PAQed instead of deleted - good info here.
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by: PsiCopPosted on 2006-09-03 at 18:15:43ID: 17447114
Short Answer: No.
Long Answer: Of course not, you honestly think Redmond is going to implement/support anything like that?
Longer Answer: And not only that, XP may have already trashed the NetWare partition. Windoze is stoopid and will happily overwrite anything it doesn't understand.
Linux: Open Enterprise Server (http://www.novell.com/oes
Question: Why are you making this so difficult? Download NetWare from Novell's site and install it without a license - it'll default to the 2-user trial license. Mount the disks, get your data. It's no more difficult to do that than to load up a Linux server or a Windoze box.