TronXP Posted March 31, 2008 Posted March 31, 2008 This forum is very queit! How many people on edugeek use Netware still??? I am using Netware 6.5 SP7 and Zenworks 7.
Mike Posted March 31, 2008 Posted March 31, 2008 Yep still using it here. Netware 6.5, Zen 7 and GroupWise 7. I believe we are the only ones still using it in the county now! Know of one school using it in nearby Bath.
googlemad Posted March 31, 2008 Posted March 31, 2008 We use NW 6.5, Zen 7 and GW 7. Actually we don't really use Zen in any great capacity as it often ends up creating more problems than it solves!
riedquat Posted March 31, 2008 Posted March 31, 2008 Yep, still using NW6.5, Zen 7 and GW 7 here...or I am until end of July 31st when our annual licence agreement runs out...Senior management have decided we will switch to a RM CC3 (4 in the summer) network which is currently being built over this easter break.
daveyboy Posted April 1, 2008 Posted April 1, 2008 Netware 6.5 sp7 / Zen 7.01 / XP Why would you want to use anything else?
cookie_monster Posted April 1, 2008 Posted April 1, 2008 It might be too late but i'd be tempted to avoid RM unless you're short on staff/windows skills. You can do pretty much anything with a vanilla setup and maybe a couple of third party utils.
shappaeye Posted April 18, 2008 Posted April 18, 2008 Hanging in there but by the end of the summer we will have been assimilated by RM CC4 as our LEA states to our Senior Team that they will not support Novell although their version of support is receiving the issue then phoning RM themselves.......... NW 6.5 SP7 Zenworks 3.0 (which works really well on Client 4.90 SP2 but any later and the policies go wandering!) yet another example of not getting funding for Novell yet huge amounts being chucked at RM to do stuff that Novell invented many moons ago!!!!!
Shaun_Dark_Lord Posted May 2, 2008 Posted May 2, 2008 Still running Netware very happily here. Zen 7 is a godsend!
sirsir Posted May 16, 2008 Posted May 16, 2008 We use NW6.5 sp5 for curriculum - 1600 users - 1 server - no problem...
riedquat Posted May 16, 2008 Posted May 16, 2008 (edited) Well we now have one fewer netware servers as our shared docs and staff home dir server decided to cusinart its RAID controller on Wednesday. I can only assume it decided to throw in the towel rather than face the onslaught of the darkside :-) So i'm down to 2 OES(Netware) and 1 OES(SLES) now and those will be retired over the coming month. Edited May 16, 2008 by riedquat
MkII Posted May 16, 2008 Posted May 16, 2008 In our LEA 2 schools are still on Netware, and the LA is still on Netware 4.x!
e_g_r Posted July 11, 2008 Posted July 11, 2008 It might be too late but i'd be tempted to avoid RM unless you're short on staff/windows skills. You can do pretty much anything with a vanilla setup and maybe a couple of third party utils. The beauty of Netware is you don't need third party apps. I always say "Netware. Doing what Microsoft Server can't do 10 years ago"
lill Posted July 11, 2008 Posted July 11, 2008 worked with netware at college of cakes in brum up to this time last year, not sure if they have moved over to AD yet, but it was on the cards. Im now waiting to hear from a school advertising for a tech thats got a 4.11 network. Fingers crossed there wont be too many applicants that have 9 years expericence with Novell
cookie_monster Posted July 11, 2008 Posted July 11, 2008 MS have a large third party software system that they don't like to disturb that's why so many features don't find their way into the basic product, Novel went down the line of doing everything them selves.
evil-tom Posted July 11, 2008 Posted July 11, 2008 Works well here - supports whatever is thrown at it - including Apples. Debating when to move to OES Linux, but once the AFP support is there, we're going that way. GW, NW, ZW all up and running. No need to change.
nicholab Posted July 11, 2008 Posted July 11, 2008 It like go form technic lego to duplo what it idots. I missed the netwear bus you are lucky to have ridden it!
evil-tom Posted July 11, 2008 Posted July 11, 2008 It like go form technic lego to duplo what it idots. I missed the netwear bus you are lucky to have ridden it! Well, the travel sickness has been acute at times as other parts of the world have changed for better or worse. However, I'm now a part of a move to make more of Novell in UK education - particularly training people to "go green rather than blue". I've got a meeting at Novell in the US next week with school and university NWAdmins. If you've got anything you want me to say, (that's repeatable!) then you have a small window of time if you want.
scotspgc Posted August 25, 2008 Posted August 25, 2008 Running a combination of novel 6.5, zenworks 7, GW 7, OES linux and windows. Switching more of our servers to run XEN and oes linux. I find the novel side of things very nice to work with and switching to the new zen suite 10 will be a godsend, NO MORE NOVEL CLIENT!
torledo Posted August 25, 2008 Posted August 25, 2008 ....and no longer the edirectory requirement either with Zen 10 !!!....well i think that's a good thing.
sirsir Posted September 5, 2008 Posted September 5, 2008 We use it here in darkest Surrrey as well. NW6.5 sp5 and xp clients everywhere and 40 ndps printers - 1 box. By the way could anyone point me in the right direction to enable getting Imacs to log into my netware server? Tom
evil-tom Posted September 5, 2008 Posted September 5, 2008 Load afptcp.nlm Take a look at the sys:/etc/cifsctxs.cfg and the afpvol.cfg file for more information. Tom
ccs Posted October 13, 2008 Posted October 13, 2008 Still using version 5.2 from fresh install on new servers installed in 2002. It has been rock solid. Hoping for new servers 2009. Not sure what version to install when this happens.
MkII Posted October 13, 2008 Posted October 13, 2008 Our LA are now switching to AD from Novell 4.x to comply with DWP security requirements.
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