Archive for the 'Novell' Category

Published by kyle on 04 Jul 2008

NDSRepair on Linux

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.

Published by kyle on 06 Mar 2007

Evolution

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 and suchlike. A few clicks and you can install a fully functional Evolution 2.6.2.

Well, that was the theory. I was planning on writing up something a bit more substantial here, but Evolution has conspired against me. The startup batch files seem to do the job, but then evolution-2.6.exe hangs silently and does nothing. I’ve left it running for over half an hour, but to no avail. I guess I’ll leave the writeup for another day then.

Published by kyle on 04 Dec 2006

Zenworks & DNS pain

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 A records there. Continue Reading »