Client Support "Novell NetWare "

Client Support  

Novell supports a wide range of diverse clients. To facilitate this, Novell developed client software that allows many client operating systems to take advantage of all NetWare features. Specifically,
Novell’s clients (sometimes called NDS clients) enable access to the NDS database. Even though some clients are included with various operating systems and the vendors themselves design them,
you should implement Novell’s client on the client operating systems you are running to get the most functionality out of NetWare—including being able to administer NetWare. The NetWare client written by Novell for a particular operating system provides full NDS functionality and is therefore the best choice for connecting that operating system to a NetWare network.
Table 5.1 lists the Novell clients that are available for NetWare and the special feature(s) of each.

NOTE:

There are NDS clients for UNIX, but the UNIX vendor usually develops them. One rare exception is UNIXWare, a product Novell developed several years ago. This rather cool version of UNIX has been completely integrated with NetWare.

TABLE 5 . 1 Available Novell Clients 

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Features "Novell NetWare"

Features
NetWare is popular in large networks (more than 20 servers) because of features such as centralized
administration of all users and their properties. The most important features of Net- Ware 4. x and later are the following:

• The directory service
• The simple user interface
• Fairly minimal hardware requirements
• Scalable hardware support
• Third-party support
• Interoperability with many types of computer systems

NetWare has always been an excellent directory, file, and print server, but with its acquisition of many Java technologies (including the Java graphical user interface [GUI] on the server introduced with NetWare 5), it is starting to encroach on the application server market. These features make NetWare an excellent choice in the directory, file, and print environments.

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Novell NetWare

Novell NetWare

NetWare is one of the more powerful network operating systems on the market today. It is almost infinitely scalable and has support for multiple client platforms. Although many companies larger than a few hundred stations are running NetWare, this NOS enjoys success in many different types of networks.
    As this book goes to press, the current version of NetWare is version 6.5 and includes workstation management support, Internet connectivity, web proxy, native Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol (TCP/IP) support, and continued support for its award-winning directory service, NDS.

NOTE:

For more information on NetWare, check out Novell’s website atwww.novell.com .

In the following sections, we will look at the features of NetWare and how it functions as well as how it interoperates with other operating systems. Specifically, you will learn about the following topics:

• Features
• Client support
• Interoperability
• Authentication
• Directory structure
• File and print services
• Application support
• Security

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