What is NWGWFS?

[IdahoTech]

Hello All,

I am looking at the NFS files I just downloaded from Novell and from what I am seeing, tell me if I am wrong or right, that it allows Linux partitions on a linux box as if they were installed on the Netware server? So if I logged in to a NW 6 server with this installed and running it would allow me to see these drives as if they were located on the NW box??

Has anyone used this feature? Tell me about how your using it or if you had trouble with it. I have NW 6 SP4 with all the latest patches even the new Java patch.

Just curious on what it does and if anyone out there has tried it as well as thier experience with it.

The one thing that I notice is it seems very complicated to setup or am I just seeing things??? Thanks for any responses.

IdahoTech
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[Provogeek]

Could you post a link to the software your talking about?

It almost sounds like NFAP, but your description of it's assumed functionality is way off.

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[ITsmyfault]

It sounds like you're talking about the new product which is the "opposite" of NFAP - can't recall the name just now.. but yes, rather than exporting a netware volume as an NFS share, it lets an NFS share appear as a sharepoint on a Novell server IIRC. I'm pretty sure the thing is in beta right now.. very funky stuff. Beta site is erroring out right now or I'd post a link. I have used NFAP/NFAU and it works very well (at least from Solaris & Redhat) I'm very happy with it and it's going to save me a lot of $ as I can store critical data from my Solaris box on my Novell server and back it up from there - and not have to purchase a Solaris SAN agent (for $5-8,000 extra) That alone will pay for better than 1/2 of my Netware installation here. Plus it simplifies client access to those files by an order of magnitude.. (no NFS client on the Win32 boxes for one thing.. there's another $1k in licenses we won't need)
Gotta love Novell.