I spent a day or two trying to get Novell Account Manager 3.02 to work in my VPC setup. Wow, does it have Issues. First off, the 3.0 build I had wouldn't work in the Win2003 setup, which had me spending way too long figuring out that I needed 3.02 to install on Win2003. Aie. Then the 3.02 install, which looked prettier, persistantly crashed the register-service process. Even when I set compatibility levels for a Win2K level on the exe (deconstructing the build process in the, er, process) it still crashed.
Grumbling, I pulled out a Win2K build I had and tried it on it. That, thankfully, worked. I got the manager installed and to the management web-page.
The the Agent installer crashed when trying to configure IT. Dr. Watson stuff, not LDAP-fu.
At this point, I'm wondering if it was some Windows Update that screwed things up. I'm not sure if it is worth it to persue. For what I'm seeing on our License Fulfilment site implies that we don't actual, say, licenses for the software. But it doesn't go out and say it specifically. If we have to purchase for each of our objects, then this is a dead issue toot sweet; I don't care if it is $.15/head.
Perhaps it'll work better if I try installing it to a NetWare server instead? I don't want to do that since NetWare doesn't play nice in VPC; NetWare, just like Win95, has an idle-loop that NOOPs instead of HALTs, which makes for a high CPU usage on the host OS. Things like Java do not take well to a high CPU usage, even if it is set to a lower priority.
Grumbling, I pulled out a Win2K build I had and tried it on it. That, thankfully, worked. I got the manager installed and to the management web-page.
The the Agent installer crashed when trying to configure IT. Dr. Watson stuff, not LDAP-fu.
At this point, I'm wondering if it was some Windows Update that screwed things up. I'm not sure if it is worth it to persue. For what I'm seeing on our License Fulfilment site implies that we don't actual, say, licenses for the software. But it doesn't go out and say it specifically. If we have to purchase for each of our objects, then this is a dead issue toot sweet; I don't care if it is $.15/head.
Perhaps it'll work better if I try installing it to a NetWare server instead? I don't want to do that since NetWare doesn't play nice in VPC; NetWare, just like Win95, has an idle-loop that NOOPs instead of HALTs, which makes for a high CPU usage on the host OS. Things like Java do not take well to a high CPU usage, even if it is set to a lower priority.