Novell Client and Login Scripts?

All:
I'm a former administrator of NetWare 3.x, 4.x and 5.x systems and am
intrigued by the NLSBS 9 offering. I have downloaded the trial version
and have installed it on a test server.
Since I am "old school", I was wondering if I could use the Novell Client
for Windows XP and login scripts to automatically map shares using groups
like I did back in the day.
I'm very new to the Novell/Linux world since every organization I've
worked for in the past 10 years abandoned NetWare for Windows. I'm sure
a LOT has changed since the Linux OS was brought on board, so I thought
I'd ask.
Thanks,
Greg

Not sure. It would depend on whether Novell is still offering a product upgrade to the OWS from Windows 2000 SBS and what that price looks like. Otherwise, I was more thinking about the software side itself, re: the Linux side. Either way will work. Just work out the figures.
>>> <[email protected]> 5/23/2006 5:02 am >>>
I guess I'm looking at it this way: If I purchase the 5-user upgrade
license of NLSBS for $211.00 which includes upgrade protection, then
according to Novell, I can upgrade to OWS for free after July 31st. A 1-
user license for OWS at CDW is about $125.00. $125.00 x 5 = $625.00.
Is my logic flawed?
> Why not just get the Open workgroup suite? Its basically the same
thing, =
> but you will have todays licences instead of the licence that is
already =
> obsolete according to Novell.
>
> >>> <[email protected]> 5/17/2006 12:30:13 pm >>>
> Will do. Thanks guys!
>
> I'm getting ready to pull the trigger on purchasing the Novell Linux=20
> Small Business Suite product. I'm going to get the Upgrade version =
> with=20
> 5 users licenses and one year of upgrade protection for a little over=20
> $200.00 from CDW. I guess I can get by with the Upgrade version since =
> I=20
> have a full retail copy of Microsoft SBS 2000 still in the
shrinkwrapped=20=
>
> box. Also, a representative of Novell told me in an e-mail today that =
> if=20
> I have upgrade protection on NLSBS, then I can upgrade to the new =
> Novell=20
> Open Workgroup Suite for free when NLSBS goes out at the end of July.
>
> Sounds like a win-win to me...
>
> Thanks again,
> Greg
>
> > I also had a link to a cool solution, that explained how to use
LDAP=20
> etc.. =3D
> > to link up NDS to the Linux box so you could use that to manage user
=3D
> > accounts.
> >=20
> > Let me know if you need that and I can dig it up.
> >=20
> > >>> <[email protected]> 5/16/2006 10:05:48 am >>>
> > All:
> >=20
> > I'm a former administrator of NetWare 3.x, 4.x and 5.x systems and =
> am=3D20
> > intrigued by the NLSBS 9 offering. I have downloaded the trial=20
> version=3D20
> > and have installed it on a test server.
> >=20
> > Since I am "old school", I was wondering if I could use the Novell =3D
> > Client=3D20
> > for Windows XP and login scripts to automatically map shares using =3D
> > groups=3D20
> > like I did back in the day.
> >=20
> > I'm very new to the Novell/Linux world since every organization =
> I've=3D20
> > worked for in the past 10 years abandoned NetWare for Windows. I'm
=3D
> > sure=3D20
> > a LOT has changed since the Linux OS was brought on board, so I=20
> thought=3D20
> > I'd ask.
> >=20
> > Thanks,
> > Greg
> >
>

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> [email protected] wrote:
>
>> That is, CASA can store information both on
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>
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>
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> Mirko,
>
> Am 09.04.2015 um 13:44 schrieb Mirko Guldner:
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>
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<[email protected]> wrote:
>
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On 25.04.2012 06:16, kvishwanath wrote:
>
> Welcome to Novell CIFS !!
>
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>
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> SP1.
> - CIFS service is a cluster enabled, It works seamlessly on cluster
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>
>
> In addition, CIFS supports Distributed File Services(DFS), Dynamic
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> Novell Documentation for more details.
I know this, but in real life there are always pitfalls...
>
> Specific to your infrastructure question of ~250 XP workstations, we
> have scaled CIFS service up to 4000 connections on single server 3 node
> cluster setup. Howe ever we are interested to know more details on your
> setup and infrastructure details further on this.
>
What would you like to know?
Most infos are on my first post.
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Plattform for Services, Shares and Authentication.
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Servers and map there Shares with help of the Loginskripts.
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So now we think about to bring the Applikation Server and Windows
Workstation into AD-Domain for using same User Accounts/Passworddatabase
and use the UNC Syntax for this kind of Applikations.
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with AD Authentication (sp. Citrix) or use this as Authentication Point.
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Regards
Thomas

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typically installs NICI in client mode (of course) where eDirectory
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I won't bore you, again, with my comments on platform choice. You're in
for a ride as you can see.
Hopefully you're in a VM and can revert a snapshot. Otherwise you may
want to call support to see if they can help fix this. There may be a TID
by now on this, but I haven't seen one lately. You may be able to
reinstall eDirectory, but on windows the eDir install both installs the
binaries that run the service as well as configure a tree, so you may need
to recreate the tree for this to work.
Good luck.
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Removing Novell Client from Windows 7

Hello,
We have an issue with programs running slowly on our SUSE Linux server 11.0. We set up a test machine with Windows 7 without Novell Client and the same programs run extremely fast. (They run fast on a Windows 2008 server too with or without the client.) This is great for the new test machine but I have about 20 workstations that need to have the Client removed. If we remove it through control panel (both NICI and Novell Client - whatever version is installed) the programs are still slow. However, if we do a restore to the time before the Novell client was installed, the machine is fast. Because these machines have had the Novell Client installed for months, we cannot go back to an old restore point. Is there some registry file or other file that needs to be removed or changed to make the computer like it was installed without the Novell Client? I really do not want to have to rebuild 20 computers in order to fix this. I have researched the web and forums and cannot find any information about anything else that needs to be changed when the Novell client is removed. FYI - this is the same on our few Windows XP machines with the appropriate last updated Client on them.
Any help would be welcome!
Susan

We have had many issues with the Novell Client / Windows 7. Here is what we have done to get to an acceptable point.
We are running OES 11SP1 fully updated up until July (Getting ready to apply more updates), we are also talking about switching from CIFS to Samba as we have been seeing some weirdness with CIFS and NSS disconnects.
OES11 SP1 - Primary File Server NSS with CIFS
OES11 SP1 - DSFW/DNS Server for Domain Authentication for the CITRIX Servers, this server also runs ZCM 11.2.2 (Also going to update this as we need windows 8 support and the ZCM Agent has some issues at this level; however ZCM has a horrible way to apply updates and is time consuming)
OES11 SP1 Squid Proxy With transparent user authentication using LDAP with SquidTrust. Also has NSS Shares
Other servers exist as well.
We standardized on Novell Client 2 SP3 or Greater. Currently SP3 IR3 is what is in use. But prior to SP3 the client had many issues for us.
Also, We do not use Group policy with ZCM (We tried But it was painful and slow and policies would randomly just quit working / remove themselves) we reverted back to just digging in and finding the registry keys. If a key only existed in the Policy Section we put it there and do a GPUPDATE /force on login.
Server Settings:
Disable OPLOCKS
Workstation Settings:
NW Client Settings
File Commit (Enabled)
File Cache (Disabled) - NW Client Setting
Name Services DNS / SLP Only (Default on the newer Netware Client)
Win7 Machine Settings:
Static DNS Server - Set to the internal servers only. No external server set. The win 7 machines for some reason would use the secondary DNS Server randomly instead of the primary, never really dug in on why but disabling / removing a public DNS Server as the secondary and adding in a second internal.
MS Client For Microsoft Networks Remove, We tried changing the preferred order on the network adapters with no help. I believe the fact that we are running CIFS on the Server side the client is having issues with deciding on how to connect to the NSS Volumes when the client is installed. With the MS Client removed we see a huge improvement In the Novell client.
Libraries Disable - Registry - We redirect Documents Folders and such and these libraries are wanting to index the locations. As the Libraries consist of multiple locations.
Offline Files Disable - Registry
Windows Search Disable Registry (Service)
Zone Mapping - Registry Adds the servers & domain to the Trusted list for the OS (Even though it says Internet Explorer its used by other portions of the OS)
User Access Control Registry
I have others that helped but this is the short list of changes that made major improvements.
When I have a moment I will look back and see if there are other major changes. This is just what I remember.

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