Today I need to pull some files off a Novell file server. This is not particularly easy in Linux. First you need to install and configure the NCPFS and IPX packages:

# apt-get install ncpfs ipx

# ipx_configure --auto_interface=on --auto_primary=on

Then you need to know the Server and Volume name of the device you want to mount. For this example, the server name is BIGBOY and the volume name is VOL1. I’ll create a folder and mount it.

# mkdir ~/vol1

# ncpmount -S BIGBOY -V VOL1 -U adam ~/vol1