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Our parent company wants to implement stricter password choices.<br> <br> Does Novell or a third party make a product that could make NDS require passwords to have at least one numeric character (and possibly limit the use of the user's first or last name, maybe no common words, etc.)?<br> <br>...

I'm pretty sure that they will broadcast a license violation if you do that. <br> <br> If you have the single server edition, you'll need another license. If you have Multi-server, it could backup the other server.

Actually, you are only installing an agent on the other server and not an entire copy of BackupExec. You do need the multi-server version, however.

Are there any other Novell 4.11 HP Netserver LH4 & Pro users out there?<br> <br> I've been having trouble getting SMP to run on the new hardware the department finally shelled out some cash for. Both servers are running 4.11 with service pack 5b and the common tcp/ip update 5 [TCPIP.NLM...

I hope they were making backups of some kind. Reinstalling Netware w/o deleting the old nwserver directory is pretty messy too.

Well, one way to do it would be to follow tid 2934033 which describes using install or dsmaint to lock NDS and then back it up to a file.<br> <br> I use the procedure for swapping out old servers with new servers and it works great!

I would try running the appropriate 3com configuration .exe before writing the NIC off as bad (e.g. for the 3c905 it's 3c90xcfg.exe). If you don't have the disks or cd-rom you can get them from the 3-com web site.<br> <br> The configuration program will auto detect the media type, or you can...