Many organizations make use of directories such as Microsoft's Active Directory AD and Novell's Netware Directory Services NDS, which can be deployed in conjunction with an appropriate Web server, to provide user identification at the Web server level. In the context of user authentication, which is usually done via a...
XP Power Management group policy toolNice GeorgeWe push down a registry ACL that allows users to manage power settings themselves.Sorry George, but this is useles for me.All of us still refusing to join the land of Microsoft's Active Directory find this a pretty useless point. Though we should all...
Novell checks out of Hula projectLDAP and NDSNovell Directory Service NDS and LDAP appear to be all that is needed to get interoperability between email systems. The Novell/Microsoft marriage means that one of the big issues for corporate america and government (the issue of making exchange/outlook work with other email...
Active Directory: adoption rates reveal extent of pervasivenessOK, so businesses have upgraded their serversI bet that most of these businesses haven't used most of the features of Active Directory, they're just using it for user management.Still a Third Rate DirectoryIt doesn't matter what MS says. AD is still a...
DS Login is program that provides a secure login environment for Macintosh computers on a Novell NDS network. Featuring:Forced authentication to NDS before using computing resourcesContextless login (from the user's perspective)Auto-mount of user's home volume, with creation of an alias on the Desktop to the user's specific home directoryAuto-mount of...
After a stall of the OS or a crash of an application, the service provided by the system becomes inaccessible. Automatic Server restart devices or watchdog timers provide a mechanism to detect these situations and reboot the system. The use of a Server Restart device thus optimizes the availability of...
The Ministry of Defence as with many government bodies in the United Kingdom is updating many areas of its business to take advantage of new technologies and the Internet. The Ministry of Defence required that in the solution process all authentication information should be within the DMZ. When using Novell...
While building a new tree from scratch can be a complex task, migrating existing directory information from another service presents its own set of challenges. Many networks are currently using Novell Directory Services NDS as their primary storehouse for directory service information, and with the release of Windows NT Server...
NDS Nutritional Products, Inc. is focused on improving the health of individuals through weight loss support programs, sport nutrition products, and general health improvement supplements, including vitamins, minerals, phytonutrients, and protein powders. The company wanted to enhance decision making through expanded access to business information. The challenge was to create...
Windows Server 2008 and Windows Vista SP1 are soupWhy March?n/tServer 2008In theory, it has a lot to offer. In practice... what's Microsoft's history of features vs reliability of said features?And will Microsoft play around with their licensing agreements? "Bait'n'switch" I believe the term is called...The clock is...
AdmWin is a toolkit for the Windows, Linux and Novell network administrator. Batch manage SAM, AD, OpenLDAP, NDS, eDirectory, Exchange, Terminal server, IIS, Samba and GroupWise. Modify user accounts, passwords, mailboxes, directories, quotas, webshares and the registry. Transfer accounts, including passwords, between different platforms. Create or manage accounts on many...
And the battle rages on"Education" is certainly a broad topicAs someone who works in a higher education IT, it is a little more apparent to me now that what students, and staff [b]need[/b] heavily depends on the setting.In the last talkback, I questioned someone's claim that Linux was an adequate...
NetWare Control Center is an advanced logfile analyzer with powerful search and filter options for Novell NetWare 4.x, 5.x, 6.x and Open Enterprise Servers. The NDS-/eDirectory Health Check feature will offer a simple and fast solution to check the directory services health. It is completely based on TID10060600 and includes...
Microsoft, Novell paint target on Red HatAnd anyone with an iota of intelligence WILLhave an emotional agenda regarding ANY involvment of M$ with Linux!"Most professionals", as you so condescendingly put it, will understand that allowing M$ a foot into the Linux door is like giving the fox the key to...
Symantec Backup Exec 11d for Windows Servers uses the same generation of technology in the Remote Agent for NetWare Systems as did BEWS 10. There are however some enhancements and changes to some operations. Using this agent, users of Backup Exec can back up the NetWare file system, Novell Directory...
Noorda, network computing pioneer, dies at 82Thanks for everything RayNTExcellent, now go haunt Bill GatesSome one needs to and Ellison and Jobs are too young.You won't be forgotten!As one of the premier PC companies in the ninties, Novell was instrumental in shaping and propelling the personal computer industry to the...
Microsoft gives Linux a virtual hug. ZDNet talkback Linux zealots say, "Ewwwww! Cooties!"5, 4, 3, 2, 1....*pop*Thousands of linux zealots' heads explode in unison.Microsoft gives Linux a virtual hugThis is an excellent way for people to migrate from the atrocity known as linux to Windows. Microsoft was thinking 2...
No suprises. Novell CEO Messman dragged out with boots on.Novell is like the restNo direction and big fat cat CEO's sitting aboard making millions and the workers getting replaced by offshoring and friendly H1B visa people...http://www.theallineed.com/news/0505/291174.jpgAbout time for Novell to make a moveIts about time that Novell starts to...
One point I want to make in this series, is that these identity fallacies don't occur and become ingrained in thinking and technology design because people are stupid. They occur because people tend to see the evolution of computing as one of incremental steps, and rarely note that it is...
One of my favorite Marvel comics back in the day was the "What If..." series. It was a comic which considered the outcome of alternate paths characters in the Marvel universe might have taken. What if the Fantastic Four had never been exposed to cosmic rays? As it turns out,...
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