Category: Novell

Accessing Novell Groupwise from Ubuntu, Mint, etc

July 12, 2012 - Computers , Geek , Novell , Work - by admin - No Comments

We use Groupwise at work, and up until recently Groupwise support was available in Evolution. I don’t know why it was dropped, but it’s fairly easy to reinstate it again if you’re prepared to build from source. These are the steps I used to build it on two Linux Mint […]

Changing OES DHCP Range

May 21, 2010 - Computers , Geek , Novell , Technology , Work - by admin - No Comments

Recently we were in the unfortunate position of running out of IP address in our DHCP pool. The Novell DNS/DHCP Management Console will give you a handy utilization % for your subnet, but will not tell you how much of your allocatable pool is in use. As a result, machines […]

NDSRepair on Linux

July 4, 2008 - Cool things , Linux , Novell - by admin - No Comments

Migrated to OES on Linux, and missing out on that menu driven dsrepair fun? Fret no more, as DSRmenu will nicely wrap up the CLI version of ndsrepair, and put it into a nice menu driven system for you.

Evolution

March 6, 2007 - Computers , Cool things , Linux , Novell , Technology - by admin - No Comments

It’s been around for a while and I vaguely recall checking out the collection of Zip files, but it took this article to encourage me to give it a shot again. Evolution now has (well, back in July 2006) a slick Windows installer to ease the pain of dependency checks […]

Zenworks & DNS pain

December 4, 2006 - Computers , Novell , Technology , Zenworks - by admin - 1 Comment

I’ve been wondering for a while how to import workstations into Zen when they are in a different DNS zone from the server that should be handling them. For instance, we have all our workstations in ch.nes.scot.nhs.uk, yet their DNS search domain is nes.scot.nhs.uk, due to the servers having their […]