Mailing List os2-netware_users@2rosenthals.com Archived Message #139

From: Lewis G Rosenthal <os2-netware_users@2rosenthals.com> Full Headers
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Subject: OS/2-NetWare Users List: Netware IP
Date: Thu, 12 Jun 2003 16:38:19 EST5EDT4,M4.1,M10.5
To: os2-netware_users@2rosenthals.com

Phil, are you running LDAP services on the server(s) now? I'd be really interested to hear how this works for you, as I'm thinking of implementing LDAP on a couple client sites. It would be nice to know in advance whether we have sufficiently robust tools under OS/2 to access this data.

Over here, when I need to drop to Windows to do something, I usually use a Citrix session. I've had some stability problems with my VPC setups recently, so I've pretty much put that on a back burner.

Insofar as a re-write of the NetWare client, it would be interesting to see if Innotek could do a package of the NT/2000 client akin to their Java 1.4 offering. This would sidestep the requirement for a ground up re-write of the existing 2.12 requester. I'm just talking off the top of my head here, as I'm sure there are probably 1,001 reasons why it can't be done that way....

Phil Brown wrote:

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We are planning to phase out IPX at our site & I am in the process of transferring from a warp 4 system running the IPX client (which has worked reliably for years)
to an ECS1.1 system running IP only.

I currently use VPC to access the Windows Tools that I have to use.

As has been noted Netware management tools are moving in the web direction so using them is becoming less of a problem.

The two areas providing the most challenge are: effective file access/management
& extracting info from the NDS.

I am currently using netdrive to map drives, this seems stable using a netware 6
server running FTP and setting netdrive FTP type to UNIX (Ultrix).
This works well from a command window but is very slow with gui tools.

I am looking at extracting info from the NDS using LDAP tools (ldaptools.zip from Hobbes)
which will let me extract publicly available data from the NDS.

I think an update of the Netware Client, while it would be very nice in the short term, is a bit late now. Netware are moving into the web access route & away from
the Netware client, so a new client would be likely to be being phased out as soon
as it was completed.

It would be nice to see improvements in the above products, LDAP / Netdrive, to deal
with current requirements which may easier to achieve than a rewrite of the netware client.



Phil Brown
Lan support
Room 2-04 Halpern House
ISO department
University of Portsmouth
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