Just Curious 1

[iolair]

I'm just curious, does anyone still have Netware servers running in your enterprise?

Iolair MacWalter
Network Engineer

 

[58sniper]

What's that got to do with Windows Server 2008?

Pat Richard MVP
Plan for performance, and capacity takes care of itself. Plan for capacity, and suffer poor performance.

http://www.ucblogs.net/blogs/exchange/

 

[iolair]

I'm looking to see if anyone who is running Windows 2008 is also using Netware, and if so, for what purpose, and if so, are they using any integration tools.

Iolair MacWalter
Network Engineer

 

[58sniper]

Okay - THAT makes more sense. Your initial post was quite vague.

Pat Richard MVP
Plan for performance, and capacity takes care of itself. Plan for capacity, and suffer poor performance.

http://www.ucblogs.net/blogs/exchange/

 

[Davetoo]

What's Netware? ;-)

I'm Certifiable, not cert-ified.
It just means my answers are from experience, not a book.

There are no more PDC's! There are DC's with FSMO roles!

 

[iolair]

Davetoo,
Netware is a network operating system that was created in 1983 by Drew Major at Novell. It was originally created to share files. Netware dominated the LAN OS space until sometime in 2002 or so. However, just as Microsoft destroyed the superior desktop OS, OS/2, they also destroyed the superior server OS, Netware. I am curious to see if anyone is still using it, and if so, for what purpose.

Iolair MacWalter
Network Engineer

 

[pagy]

Not any more. Friends of mine have Netware 6.5 running in their environment but that will be gone by the end of the year in favour of 2K8 R2.

I miss Netware but I do get paid more overtime nowadays to keep my Windows boxes patched

Paul
VCP4

https://www.mcpvirtualbusinesscard.com/VBCServer/PaulP/profile

RFC 2795 - The Infinite Monkey Protocol Suite (IMPS)

http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc2795.html

Difficult takes a day, impossible takes a week

 

[iolair]

Any thoughts on where to find information for converting Netware login scripts to Windows logon scripts? Just looking for simple drive mapping, and printer connections. Nothing elaborate. I seem to have a lot of problems using "net use", especially when I try to delete an old map and create a new one. I tried:
net use h: \\w2k8\home /delete
net use h: \\w2k8r2\home /persistent:yes
But I always get a message saying "h has a remembered connection, do you want to overwrite?" Which confuses the users to distraction, thinking they've caught a virus or worse. I know you're supposed to use profiles and policies, but I can never figure that out. Maybe I need a course in basic Windows administration? Oh, I've been in IT a long time, but I am used to Unix and Netware.

Iolair MacWalter
Network Engineer

 

[58sniper]

2008 R2 GPOs do both of those beautifully. No need for any login script.

Pat Richard MVP
Plan for performance, and capacity takes care of itself. Plan for capacity, and suffer poor performance.

http://www.ucblogs.net/blogs/exchange/

 

[pagy]

Yep if you have, or can move to 2008 R2, do as Pat says. If your clients are XP you would need to install the Group Policy preference extensions on them I believe.

have a look at this faq as well;

faq329-5798




Paul
VCP4

https://www.mcpvirtualbusinesscard.com/VBCServer/PaulP/profile

RFC 2795 - The Infinite Monkey Protocol Suite (IMPS)

http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc2795.html

Difficult takes a day, impossible takes a week

 

[iolair]

Thanks! Great info!!!

Iolair MacWalter
Network Engineer

 

[iolair]

Oh, and yes, we have two 2008 R2 servers, along with several 2003 R2 servers.

Iolair MacWalter
Network Engineer