Help converting to a new Linux server

[Brian K. White]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Nathan Lehman" <nlehman06 at gmail.com>

> On Thu, Aug 21, 2008 at 12:26 PM, Jay R. Ashworth <jra at baylink.com> wrote:
>> The most important thing you need to confirm for us, though, is *how
>> your windows clients are talking to your fileserver*.  Is it Samba?
>> Netware/Linux?  Or something else?
>
> On the Linux server we use Novell's eDirectory to set up a share.
> Every employee then uses Novell Client to log in to the server which
> runs a script that maps that share as a drive on their computer.  From
> there they can access everything on the share through Windows
> explorer.  This share is where we store filePro (p.exe, rreport.exe,
> rclerk.exe, etc..).

I think you are in no-man's land unfortunately.

If you were using samba, or better yet if you were using linux directly 
(1000% better) there would be quite a bit of experience and expertise to 
draw on. Not just here but everywhere.

Even in the world of netware emulation, there has been a form of netware 
emulation in linux since ages ago (MARS/NWE) that, while almost no one uses 
that either (probably no one here btw), at least just because of the fact 
that it's been there forever you have some shot at googling some tips & 
hints. It only emulates simpler/older versions of netware, 3.x at the latest 
I think, so if you actually need features from newer netware then that might 
be why this was your only option.

Whatever salesperson sold on this idea, I think just about all support will 
have to come from them, make them answer for putting you in such a position.

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