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An apology from Novell's CEO

Posted Apr 21, 2003 14:23 UTC (Mon) by dlcarraw (guest, #10786)
Parent article: An apology from Novell's CEO

>Linux is simply not an option in my (academic) labs until a user can >login via NDS and have their home directory on the server, like MacWin >users have had "forever".

With Novell's Native File Access product, it's possible to publish a NetWare volume via CIFS (aka SMB), which Linux clients can mount; LDAP PAM should enable eDirectory authentication. A native client would clearly be superior, however.

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Novell Client for Linux..

Posted Apr 22, 2003 11:15 UTC (Tue) by david_eliasson (guest, #10815) [Link]

There´s a very nice GUI Novell Client for Linux available at novelclient.sourceforge.net

It´s 100% GPL and does exactly what you want..

Novell Client for Linux..

Posted Apr 22, 2003 17:46 UTC (Tue) by jeff_couillard (guest, #10823) [Link]

Thanks for the info. I went there, donwloaded the Novel Client, ran the script, and I'm in business.

Now I can hardly wait for the GroupWise Client for Linux to be released.

Thanks