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copied!<p>When you say running Novell, you need to consider what that means.</p> <p>Most likely you mean either uses Netware servers, or use eDirectory for authentication. </p> <p>With the release of Open Enterprise Server, Novell ported the core functionality of most of the Netware stack to run on SLES (SUSE Linux Enterprise Server). Thus OES runs on a Netware or Linux kernel. Services are much the same on both (there are some subtle differences that are probably outside the scope of this issue).</p> <p>If you mean Netware servers (or even OES Linux servers providing file shares) then it becomes an issue of how you access the file system. If it is simple reads and writes from a network drive, then there are two approaches.</p> <p>1) Install the Novell Client on the box that needs the file system access so it can make an NCP (Novell Core Protocols) connection to volumes and data hosted there.</p> <p>2) Get the Novell server admin to enable CIFS/Samba (On Netware kernels, it is CIFS a not-ported-from-Samba implementation of CIFS. On OES Linux it is currently Samba using eDirectory for credentails. On the soon to be released OES 2 Sp1, on the Linux kernel, the Netware CIFS stack has been ported to Linux since it is much more performant and scalable, when compared to just Samba) on the server.</p> <p>More likely however you mean eDirectory is used for Authentication. If that is the case, just pretend it is an LDAP directory and you should be pretty much fine.</p> <p>eDirectory is cross platform, and runs on Windows, Netware, Linux (SLES and Red Hat at least), Solaris, AIX, and HPUX. It is practically indistinguishable which platform it is running on, so whatever you have in house expertise on the core OS, install an eDirectory instance on it, set up a test tree, and you can test your authentication code against it fairly easily.</p> <p>There should be a free 250,000 user license available for just eDirectory for Developers still. (In fact I do not think they even bother asking for licenses for just eDirectory. The add on products require licensing. OES requires a license to access file shares or shared printers. Identity Manager (IDM) is bundled with almost any other Novell product license, but only for use with the bundled drivers (AD, eDir, Notes, Exchange) the rest require licensing.</p> <p>Hope that helps. If you are looking for pointers and beginners guides, there is a huge amount of content at <a href="http://www.novell.com/communities/coolsolutions" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Novell Cool Solutions</a>.</p> <p>If you have a specific problem let me know and I will see if I can help out.</p>

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