Is there a reason for being client-averse? Just because you don't want to, or have you been hearing and believing scare stories? I can tell you truthfully that 99.9999% of the scare stories are just that - stories, told to scare you away from NetWare, the Novell client, and anything else Novell-related. They may have some remote relation to facts, but are more often anecdotal or unsubstantiated rumor, often spread by unsuspecting techies or 3rd-party software support folks that are either ignorant of reality or hope to bend reality to their viewpoint to narrow your choices and make their jobs easier by not having to look outside their box.
The easy way, if you're not a NetWare administrator/engineer, is to install the Novell Client32. You do not need to set it up to be primary login provider, or to support anything not needed for the secure access to the files/directories you have need to access. It will sit there unobtrusively waiting for you to try to access a NetWare resource, when it will kick into action.
"shares" are a windows-ism, by the way. The only way you can have a "share" on NetWare is to use CIFS, to emulate a Windows server. Same for Linux/*nix which don't have "shares" unless they run Samba to emulate a Windows server.
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by: alextoftPosted on 2007-07-19 at 12:07:04ID: 19525072
Novell server? Netware? Linux? 4? 5? 6? We need to know.
<if> it's a Netware 6.5 server, this can be done easily. You need 2 things;
1) Enable CIFS
2) Enable Universal Password
<if> it's an older version of Netware there are ways to do it providing it's Netware 5+, but it's done differently.
Tell us what version of Netware (after all, Novell sell lots of software, but I'm guessing Netware since you posted in the Netware TA).