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Questions related to Novell products such as NetWare or Open Enterprise Server (OES)

Netware

NetWare is a computer network operating system developed by Novell, Inc. It initially used cooperative multitasking to run various services on a personal computer, using the IPX network protocol. The final update release was version 6.5SP8 of May 2009; Netware is no longer on Novell's product list. NetWare 6.5SP8 General Support ended in 2010, with Extended Support until the end of 2015, and Self Support until the end of 2017. The replacement is Open Enterprise Server.

Novell Open Enterprise Server (OES)

Novell Open Enterprise Server (OES), originally released in March 2005, is the successor product to Novell, Inc.'s NetWare operating system (OS). Initial versions allowed running on an underlying kernel of either the proprietary Novell kernel or SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES), but since OES 11, only SLES is supported.OES 11, SP2 was released on January 28, 2014. OES 2015 was released in 2015.

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Novell Clustering Problem

I am trying to cluster 3 servers to then mount an NSS. I have all 3 configured and ready to roll. The only problem is none of them are apart of any cluster. When I run the: "cluster join" command I get the following: Joining... Now a member of…
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Windows treats mapped drives differently based on host server type (Netware vs 2008R2), file create issues

We have a ~30 PC heterogeneous network environment. DOS, Linux, OSX, Windows 98, XP, 7 , and 10 clients, to name a few. The question: How can I get Windows desktops to treat Mapped network drives as first-class-citizens? rephrased: How can I get…
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GroupWise 6.5 IMAP Service Shuts Down-Needs Constant Restarting

I have an issue with my aging (and soon to be replaced) GroupWise 6.5 system. The IMAP service in the GWIA tends to periodically shut down, requiring that I restart the service. When IMAP is down, my end users who use Blackberry BIS cannot send or…
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windows clients cannot get dns resolution until you open and close ipv4 properties page

This strange problem has started recently. Some windows clients cannot seem to get dns resolution to the internet after boot, and sometimes again at some point in the day. Internal hosts are also slow to resolve. trying to ping an interal host by…
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Database Administrator

I have a Novell LDAP server running on RHEL. and I want to authenticate my LDAP users from the Website on one of my machine having HTTP, so I use in the httpd.conf AuthType Basic AuthName "Stooges Web Site: Login…
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Novell Netware 6.5 Server Logs

I have inherited a Novell Netware 6.5 server to manage. We had have some users move folders into other folders that they were not supposed to be able to do. Additionally, there have been cases were it would be nice to view a log of when a user last…
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How to force Novell Client to access NDS tree on a specific IP interface

I have a legacy NetWare 6.5 server that offers file shares to about 40 clients. It also acts as the router between our two internal subnets and our parent agency's network. We are planning on replacing the routing functionality with a Juniper…
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NetWare to SLES Apache alias

I have a NetWare server running Apache that has directory aliases that call out to other NetWare servers. I'm about to migrate one of those NetWare servers to SLES10SP3 with OES2. When I test the Apache config with a new alias calling to a SLES…
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Need advice for working with an old NetWare server

Hey, I have an old server at the police dept that they want to pull some data off of. Unfortunately, anybody who might have known anything about it is long since resigned / retired / passed away. No documentation / records. It was, at our best…
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Error ORA-01034: Oracle not available

I have an old Novell server which runs DocsOpen. I know very little about this system, basically we had a disk fault which halted the system. The server was rebooted and came up, I had to manually mount the DATA volume and then reboot again. All…
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Merging Novell and Active Directory Users

After having two separate companies merge into one, we were left with two existing environments, a Novell environment, and an Active Directory environment. Prior administration decided not to merge them, and instead maintain both environments…
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Novell JRBUtils How do I find a combined membership of multiple groups without duplicates

Using GRPLIST.EXE from JRBUtils I can get a list of all members in one group or another, or even a list of members that appear in multiple groups (excluding the indivudals not in one or the other). What I want though is a list of all members from…
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Turn LDAP tracing on WebSphere 7?

I am having difficulty logging into our test environment, but not production. I confirmed in the WebSphere Admin console that our LDAP configuration is the same as production. Nothing has changed on the configuration end. Does anyone know the steps…
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How do I export the groupwise database into .pst or .csv format?

I have only an ssh connection to the server and I need to extract the groupwise database and import all the users and hopefully emails too into MS Exchange. When you google for tools, the only thing that pops up are .exe files (What part of SUSE…
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Novell iPrint Client delays Windows login

At the University I work at, we have a system in which every student gets a laptop and this laptop comes installed with the Novell iPrint client to allow for wireless printing throughout campus. This year the laptops the students are receiving will…
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