Question about Novell

[Brian Kelsay]

Rick Meeker wrote:

> Are you using the Netware client to login, or are you trying to login
> through the standard Windows login?
> 

On the Windows side I just went to the Network Neighborhood and double 
clicked then looked at Computers near me(using Windows 2000).  Double 
clicked on the Netware server name and tried both admin w/ the correct 
password and admin.support.ripcrd.org with the same password and neither 
work.  My next step will be to load the netware client on the windows 
box.  That is probably the problem.  On the server install I did install 
the windows services and the NFS services, so I didn't think I would 
need the netware client just to connect.  Maybe because I am trying to 
connect as admin.

They don't let you create any regular users at install time like Linux. 
  I don't know how many people here have checked out Netware or use it 
on  a regular basis, but it has some striking similarities to Linux.  If 
the OpenLDAP guys got their stuff simplified a little there wouldn't be 
much need for Netware at all.  The NDS stuff from what I've read uses 
the X.500 protocol, which is LDAP, and they just have a neat little GUI 
tool for administration.  If I can get it to work, I'm going to learn 
some more about LDAP from it before I install OpenLDAP on Linux.  From 
having worked w/ Active Directory on Windows 2000 I see a LOT of 
similarities between it and NDS (AD also uses the X.500 protocol).  I'm 
just rambling here, but maybe this will make sense to all of you. 
Netware has a GUI that can load at boot time (or can be turned off) and 
it is an accelerated X server.  I think the screen said Xi graphics, but 
it went by real fast.  Like under Linux, but unlike Windows, you can 
restart the X server if it gets fubared.  One more thing, the GUI for 
NDS admin is a program run in a JVM, so that would make it easily 
portable to other systems.  Why it was easy to port to Linux.

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