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This is version 0.1 of ncpfs, a free NetWare client for Linux. For me
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it works with 1.3.32 and 1.3.35.
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I know that this piece of software is VERY incomplete, as it only
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gives you read-only access. I have to apologize for that. But I
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thought I should make it publically available, because I have tried to
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ask several people about the legal status of the code. I did not get
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very satisfying answers. So I publish ncpfs to open it for
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criticism. If nobody complains, I will go on working.
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To install ncpfs, just type 'make', 'insmod ncpfs.o' and
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'ncpmount server mount-point user password'. Please note that your IPX
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system has to be configured correctly. There has to be a route to the
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internal network of your server. I use tools from the dosemu-0.60.3
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distribution to do this. Once again I have to apologize for this
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cryptic description, but before I'm sure that I'm allowed to do all
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this I will not do more.
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I read that Novell is not very open when it comes to technical details
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of the Netware Core Protocol. This might be especially true for the
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encryption stuff. I took the necessary code from Dr. Dobb's Journal
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11/93, Undocumented Corner. I asked Jon Erickson <jon@ddj.com> about
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the legal status of this piece of code:
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Date: Thu, 12 Oct 1995 13:44:18 +0100
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From: Volker Lendecke <lendecke>
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To: jon@ddj.com
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Subject: legal status of your source code?
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Hello!
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I hope that you're the right one to write to, you are the first on your WWW
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server. If you are not, could you please forward this message to the right
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person? Thanks.
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I'm currently exploring the possibility to write a free (in the GNU GPL
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sense) NCP filesystem, which would allow me to access a novell server
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transparently. For that I would like to use the encryption functions you
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published in DDJ 11/93, Undocumented Corner. I would make some cosmetic
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changes, such as other indentations, minor code changes and so on. But I do
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not know if that allows me to publish this code under GPL. One alternative
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would be to publish a diff against your listing, but that would probably
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contain much of your code as well, and it would be very inconvenient for
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the average user.
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I think that you have some kind of standard procedure for such a
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case. Please tell me what I should do.
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Many thanks in advance,
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Volker
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+=================================================================+
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! Volker Lendecke Internet: lendecke@namu01.gwdg.de !
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! D-37081 Goettingen, Germany !
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+=================================================================+
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--
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I got the following answer:
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From: Jon Erickson <jon@ddj.com>
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X-Mailer: SCO System V Mail (version 3.2)
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To: lendecke@namu01.gwdg.de
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Subject: Re: legal status of your source code?
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Date: Thu, 12 Oct 95 5:42:56 PDT
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Volker,
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Code from Dr. Dobb's Journal related articles is provided for
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anyone to use. Clearly, the author of the article should be
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given credit.
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Jon Erickson
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---
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With this answer in mind, I took the code and made it a bit more
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C-like. The original seemed to be translated by a mechanical pascal->c
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translator. Jon's answer encouraged me to publish nwcrypt.c under the
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GPL. If anybody who knows more about copyright and sees any problems
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with this, please tell me.
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