Any way to enable IPX on FreeNAS 11 box?

[lowlytech]

I have a few vintage dos machines where I use IPX exclusively. I had this working before on my 2003 windows server to allow these clients to talk, but since I migrated everything to freenas, I find myself missing this protocol. I searched IPX but didn't come up with any hits on the forum. On the flip side I do have a WFW311 box with TCPIP installed and I can see my freenas server in the browse list since I set the SMB minimum protocol to LANMAN1, but every time I try to connect with my credentials I get an access denied and can't seem to find out why.

So far I have only found FTP to be a way I can access my shares. I also tried to make a VM and install say server 2000/2003, but I can't figure out how to connect to it to install it since I get the error that only UEFI boot methods can create VNC links. Any suggestions besides the FTP route?

Thanks again...

 

[dlavigne]

Nope. FreeBSD stopped supporting it some time ago: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/base?view=revision&revision=263140.

 

[lowlytech]

Thanks for the reply. I guess FreeBSD stuck it out longer than Microsoft did. Didn't realize Microsoft dropped IPX with Server 2008. I now have TCP/IP installed under my pure dos machine, but still get access denied at the password phase, will continue to troubleshoot this under TCP/IP.

 

[bigphil]

For your very old client, you may need to enable NTLMv1 or even lanman auth to get access. See the docs for more info.

 

[lowlytech]

Thanks for the tip bigphil. I tried setting the auth level down, because before that, the network browser option on my WFW311 client wouldn't even show the FreeNAS box. When I set that down it did find it in the browse but it still refuses to let me connect with a vague, Error 5: access denied when I type the password I know is correct. I tried setting those lines in your doc link in the .conf file and restarted the FreeNAS box with no change however. I have since changed gears and started using the 3com packet driver for my card (instead of the microsoft client) and the mTCP suite and find the FTP option works flawless and the packet driver only uses appox. 3k of memory, so that is pretty good for transferring files to these old classic workhorses. I just can't manipulate the network as a drive letter which would have been nice.