e_g_r Posted October 11, 2005 Posted October 11, 2005 Wish i did. My old school is still a Netware site and uses the likes of ZEN Works and Border Manager to good effect. NDS out performs active directory and you have far less issues with patch's.
mprcomp Posted December 12, 2005 Posted December 12, 2005 Why does a Novell Zen Works log in take 6 minutes in my school. I keep asking techies but just get its not on list of priorities. Is this me expecting too much? Paul
RoyG Posted January 14, 2006 Posted January 14, 2006 I've been running Netware on our 3 servers since 1996 - yes, it is addictive! Since then - number of unplanned occasions server down = 3 longest server downtime = 40 minutes I rest my case! RoyG
DMcCoy Posted January 14, 2006 Posted January 14, 2006 You must have missed netware 6.0 out then Netware 5.0 was very stable for us, no great issues with it. We then bought some new servers (compaqs) and Netware 6. Netware 6.0 (even with the first 2 overlay service pack cds) would abend during a clean install on the servers. Then there was the new filesystem. There were filesystem patches released constantly and we never got it working. This also affected backup, which usually crashed the server. I tried several backup products, but they all did the same. it was the tsa driver iirc (its been a few years now). The novell ndps server also used to abend the server every few days too! I also got put off by bordermanager. It had major issues. It didn't clear its cache when it got full (like the documentation said it would), and it needed manual configuration to fix its email proxy, otherwise it would eat all the mail. I would have been less annoyed if this wasn't labled as a bug and it wasn't fixed in 3.0, 3.5, 3.6 and 3.7. I assume that you are using a version thats based on suse for the server now? I can see how that would be stable, I would also say that I did like NDS. Unfortunatley for Netware we tried 6.0. As a consequence we don't have single netware product left.
john Posted January 14, 2006 Posted January 14, 2006 I did some work experiance at Nelson & Colne College and at that time they had Netware, they seemed to like it, don't know what its like now as a few years have gone since I was there, so cannot comment on it now.
RoyG Posted January 14, 2006 Posted January 14, 2006 You must have missed netware 6.0 out then Never got that far, we've stuck with 5.1. It hasn't broken, so we haven't mended it! I also got put off by bordermanager. It had major issues. It didn't clear its cache when it got full (like the documentation said it would), and it needed manual configuration to fix its email proxy, otherwise it would eat all the mail. I would have been less annoyed if this wasn't labled as a bug and it wasn't fixed in 3.0, 3.5, 3.6 and 3.7. The cache is fine, it just punts off the oldest items as required. Email proxy not an issue, our Email is hosted elsewhere. I assume that you are using a version thats based on suse for the server now? I can see how that would be stable, I would also say that I did like NDS. We're taking a look at Novell Open Enterprise server (Novell flavoured Suse) at the moment, but not in a rush to upgrade.
standunstan Posted February 25, 2006 Posted February 25, 2006 Why does a Novell Zen Works log in take 6 minutes in my school. I keep asking techies but just get its not on list of priorities. We once had this as a problem and found that the Novell and Microsoft network clients were both installed and going head-to-head for supremacy on logon. Removing the Microsoft client resolved the problem. (This assumes, of course, that the Microsoft client is not required for other reasons such as access to MS server-based applications such as SIMS etc.)
beama Posted March 25, 2006 Posted March 25, 2006 been using Novell on file server 5 years, its great.
riedquat Posted May 31, 2006 Posted May 31, 2006 Been using Netware here for almost 10 years now, currently running a number of Netware 6.5/OES servers plus a couple of Win 2000 servers to host the KS3 ICT tests etc.
davecox Posted November 23, 2006 Posted November 23, 2006 I was using it at my old school and it was fantasic. Did what it was supposed to do with out a hitch. Since I left and moved to a windows environment my old school have got zenworks and are raving about it constantly. I do miss it so much
riedquat Posted November 23, 2006 Posted November 23, 2006 I do miss it so much btw, you do realise that edirectory and zenworks installs on Netware, Linux and Windows now...no need for an actual netware server if they won't let you have one :-)
brubakes Posted December 10, 2007 Posted December 10, 2007 We have 13 servers. All but 1 are Netware. Mostly 6.5SP5 with two still at NW6. I always liked NetWare, ZENWorks, and other Novell software offerings.
Kained Posted December 10, 2007 Posted December 10, 2007 Why does a Novell Zen Works log in take 6 minutes in my school. I keep asking techies but just get its not on list of priorities. Is this me expecting too much? Paul Take a look at the service location ensure that this is setup DNS settings is your next step, try specifying dns settings in windows this helps speed things up usually.
TronXP Posted December 11, 2007 Posted December 11, 2007 We have a 4 node Novell Netware 6.5 Cluster with Zenworks Desktop Managment 7. I have gone through at a previous job a Novell to Microsoft migration and to be honest when I got this job I went straight back to Novell. Why does a Novell Zen Works log in take 6 minutes in my school. I keep asking techies but just get its not on list of priorities. Is this me expecting too much? Paul Are they using roaming profiles with Zen?? This can cause long logins unless you exclude certain things in the roaming profiles. We did quite a few tests with this before deployment. We now use a hybrid roaming/redirected profile.
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