I'm not sure I know how to telnet to a specific port; I tried to install telnet, then used the following command:

telnet 192.168.2.110:139

I get the following result"

could not resolve 192.168.2.110:138/telnet: temporary Failure in name resolution

With this command

telnet 192.168.2.110:139

it says:

Connected to 192.168.2.110
Escape character is '^]'.

Does this mean whatever is supposed to be working is okay?

(BTW, I'm cursing Nokia's decision to include a three line keyboard and no support for a bluetooth keyboard right now!)

From around version 5 at least, Novell began offering what they call "native file access" which is how they describe the ability to access files on their servers without a dedicated client. As such, protocols such as AFP, SMB/CIFS, and NFS allow Mac, Windows, and Unix machines (respectively) to access the server using the protocols that they already include, and without a Novell client.

Since it is unlikely and probably unnecessary to expect a Netware client for the N900, I was hoping to gain access to our servers using one of these other protocols. I can confirm that at least CIFS and NFS protocols work, which have allowed me to connect to the server using Windows and other systems that did not have a Netware client installed.

The problems that I am currently having seem to indicate that there are some additional parameter requirements or variations in the CIFS protocol not covered by the implementation available via WM. I've tried some of the switch options in attempts to mount manually from the console, but am not sure if I'm doing it correctly. It is not clear to me whether mounting from the command line needs to be done as root, whether there are any modules need to be installed, or what the correct syntax is for each parameter since each example I can find seems to have random variations.

I set up a share on a Windows XP system, which I can connect to using Sharity light on another system, but still cannot connect to with the N900 and WM. This time, the error message is:

[mount] Ops! An error occured:
mount: mounting //192.168.2.62/Downloads or
media/Remote_Filesystems/
Downloads@192.168.2.62 failed: Permission den

Is there some dependency or prerequisite to using WM that I may be unaware of?

As for the router, since all of these systems including the wireless connected machines, are operating inside the LAN/Firewall, there is no port forwarding as far as my understanding goes.

So at present, I can't get WM to connect to either a Windows XP share or the CIFS share on the server, so I must be missing something rather important. Do I need to use the name of the server instead of the IP, and make an addition to the HOSTS file or something?

Thanks