Re: using a linux box in place of a novell server...

["Casey Boone" <cboone@clearwaveonline.net>]

> You can load NDS on Linux.  I did that once.  I got the
> impression it was more for use as an LDAP server than as
> the Netware Administration tool most Novell users are used
> to.  That is, the association of the user to a home
> directory (and other resources) was not readily obvious (to
> me).  

know where i can find info on that?

> 
> There is also a Novell emulator.  I believe it emulates NW
> 4.1.  I started to load it but it requires (required?) the
> DOS emulator to be loaded first (yuk!).  
> 

does it emulate nw or is it nw running on top of the dos emu?


> Caldera has the best client utils.  I used to login to
> Netware 4.x servers and mount my Novell home in my Linux
> file system.  That worked pretty good.  Printing was pretty
> nicely handled, too.
>  

heading to caldera's site now :)

Casey


> --- Casey Boone <ophidian@mychoice.net> wrote:
> > anyone familiar with using a linux box in place of a
> > novell server?
> > 
> > is there linux support for NDS ?
> > 
> > Casey
> > 
> > i do happen to like novell, but i fear that novell will
> > be no more in 5
> > years :\r
> > 
> > 
> > 
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