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Posted: Tue Jan 04, 2005 1:27 pm Post subject: NCPFS on OS X

Does anyone know if Apple provides a port of NCPFS for OS X?

EEps · Posted: Fri Jan 07, 2005 7:36 pm Post subject:

NCPFS? What's that? Sad Smile

Posted: Fri Jan 07, 2005 7:48 pm Post subject:

BamZipPow wrote:
NCPFS? What's that?

I didn't either, so I did a bit of a Google for it. Turns out it is the "National Council on Physical Fitness and Sport" in Taiwan ( http://www.ncpfs.gov.tw ).

I think squahsman is talking about some sort of Novell thingy though (didn't find out exactly what it was, then stumbled across the site above and thought I'd share).

Posted: Sat Jan 08, 2005 12:20 pm Post subject:

It is the first thing that pops up on a google search.
http://freshmeat.net/projects/ncpfs/

I use it on my linux server to run some scripts are on our Netware File Servers. Our school district does not want to pay for the ProSoft OS X client so I was wondering if anyone had any luck port ncpfs over to OS X.

I actually got an email back from the author of NCPFS. I never expected to get a response from him and was ecstatic when he did reply.

Quote:
Yes, they failed because /usr/include headers on Mac OS X are not selfcontained,
so they had to add lot of #include-s into files, and after two or three files
they gave up saying that I'm very bad programmer...

I even installed (x86) OpenDarwin to one of my VMware's VMs, but unfortunately only to
find that it does not support AMD PCnet32, and also that it does not support ppp
(pppd depended on some crypto library which is not part of OD as far as I can
tell). As only way to get ncpfs to the VM was creating .iso image from it, and
there was no way how could I recheck whether it works or not without networking, and
also fixed sources could be copied from VM only by printing them to printer, I
gave up...

If you have Mac OS X machine with 'ssh' somewhere, and you can give me an account
for building/fixing/testing ncpfs, I can try to get userspace to work (so you can
use it for example for apache/pam/xxx authorization). But getting kernel driver to
work is lot of work, and it would require some tools which are not part of OD as far
as I can tell (I was trying to write driver for pcnet32, but documentation on OD
site talked about tools I do not have and/or about tools I could not run because OD
did not offered any GUI under VMware).
Petr