In other news, I tripped across this link:
http://www.nwfusion.com/news/2003/1215netware.html
In short, Sometime Soon, Nsure Linux Services will be rereleased to include NCP as a transport option.
In the second half of 2004, Novell will again revise Nterprise Linux Services by adding support for Novell's NetWare Core Protocol (NCP). NetWare file servers use NCP to process workstation requests and handle file and directory access.
The other task customers will be able to perform with this release is to bring up a Linux server and mount a newer Novell Storage Services (NSS) or NCP volume on it, so existing file volumes can run on Linux. NSS was introduced with NetWare 5 in 1998.
"Rather than having to migrate all your data across the wire, you could simply move the volumes from one server to another," Hutchinson says.
Baring the usual risk of losing your trustees, of course. But you could shift things around like that! In a SAN environment, this is pretty neat. It also makes clustering that much more doable. Our 6 node cluster could make use of this, should we decide it was needed.
If we don't get to our NW6.5 upgrades this summer, we'll be going to NW7 next summer. It all depends on scheduling this year.
http://www.nwfusion.com/news/2003/1215netware.html
In short, Sometime Soon, Nsure Linux Services will be rereleased to include NCP as a transport option.
In the second half of 2004, Novell will again revise Nterprise Linux Services by adding support for Novell's NetWare Core Protocol (NCP). NetWare file servers use NCP to process workstation requests and handle file and directory access.
The other task customers will be able to perform with this release is to bring up a Linux server and mount a newer Novell Storage Services (NSS) or NCP volume on it, so existing file volumes can run on Linux. NSS was introduced with NetWare 5 in 1998.
"Rather than having to migrate all your data across the wire, you could simply move the volumes from one server to another," Hutchinson says.
Baring the usual risk of losing your trustees, of course. But you could shift things around like that! In a SAN environment, this is pretty neat. It also makes clustering that much more doable. Our 6 node cluster could make use of this, should we decide it was needed.
If we don't get to our NW6.5 upgrades this summer, we'll be going to NW7 next summer. It all depends on scheduling this year.