[KLUG Members] NDS for Linux...disappointing

[Adam Tauno Williams]

>My first impression of NDS for Linux is one of great disappointment. You can 
>install it, bring your Linux server into the NDS tree, send replicas,
yadda 
>yadda, but here's what you can't do: access the resources (disk space) 

Can you please briefly explain to us NDS ignorant what this means.  I
thought NDS was a directory system (like LDAP).  Does NDS also
incorporate file/print sharing? 

>of your Linux server! After all my effort, I finally found a Novell TID
that
>stated very clearly that NDS for Linux lets you authenticate to the
tree so
>you can access other NetWare resources (volumes). This TID went on to
say
>that if file sharing was necessary, the freely available Samba would

Does Novell use SMB for file/print sharing?  I though they had their own
NCP(?) protocol for this.  The Linux kernel mentions this for mounting
Novel volumes.

>facilitate this. Well gee, no kidding. So then I say to myself, "Self,
what
>good is this NDS for Linux then?". To which I replied, "Not much.".

What NSS catagories does NDS Linux augment?
	passwd
	group
	hosts	
	services
	networks
	protocols
	rpc
	ethers
	automount
	aliases

BTW,  since your have it up and running, does an NDS directory support
LDAP queries?