Ncpmount gives server not found (0x8847)

[Juan Marcelo Rodriguez Monti]

Binary package hint: ncpfs

Ncpmount isn't able to mount Netware drives currently. This is a well known problem for the latest versions of the Package in Ubuntu, however the trick was to downgrade to an older version of ncpfs to make it work.

Nowadays it doesn't work using the latest package of ncpfs provided for Ubuntu, nor with the old ones. When I try to mount the Netware's Drives I got:

"No se encuentra el servidor (0x8847) al intentar buscar SERVERNAME" in Spanish, something like "Server not found ( 0x8847 ) trying to find SERVERNAME".

This bug is prohibitive, because there's no way to mount Netware's Drives with Ubuntu. I need to use this for my work. Also I tried Debian Packages, and I got the same error, in this case might be because aren't Ubuntu Packages, surely.

I also tried some patches and packages given here that didn't work either.

System Information:

- Kernel Version
Linux 2.6.32-21-generic #32-Ubuntu SMP i686 GNU/Linux

- Ubuntu Version
 Description: Ubuntu 10.04 LTS
Release: 10.04

- Package Version
ncpfs:
  Instalados: 2.2.6-7
  Candidato: 2.2.6-7
  Tabla de versión:
 *** 2.2.6-7 0
        500 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ lucid/universe Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

[ger (ger1)]

¿are you using IPX?

if so, verify that ipx has been successfully configured.

For example, with the command ifconfig you should see output like this

ifconfig | grep IPX
          Dirección IPX/Ethernet 802.3:01018901:001CC0AE8024

The script /etc/init.d/ipx attempts auto-configuration and sometimes this can fail.

For manual configuration, edit the file /etc/ipx.conf and set

IPX_CONFIGURED=yes

and change the value of the options

IPX_DEVICE=eth0
IPX_FRAME=802.2 # either 802.2, 802.3 or EtherII

there are other options, but i did not change none of them.

It also happens that sometimes, when trying to configure ipx, the init script runs before the network is configured

To resolve this, copy the attached file to /etc/network/if-up.d/ and give it execute permisions (sudo chmod +x levantar-ipx)