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I cannot connect to Novell'siManager.  I can connect to iMonitor at https://<my.server.name>:8009
I've tried http://<my.server.name>:2200 like some places on the net suggest, also
According to this:
www.novell.com/documentation/lg/nw65/...

We have just added our first Windows 7 workstation to our small office network (all the others are XP - we skipped Vista).

I downloaded and installed the Novell Client 2 SP1 for Windows 7, but found that it's not mapping network drives...

Hi there,

We currently run a Netware 6.5 environment (with the latest service pack) and use group policies and DLU's in the in the following way:

Staff: DLU with user rights, No group policy assigned to user OU
Students: DLU with user...

We are in the planning stages of migrating our fileserver from Netware 6.5 to Windows Server 2003 or 2008 and i could use some advice on migration tools/methods.

Our Environment - We use Netware purely as our fileserver, already have an Active...

Hello I have been fighting a power chute issue, and have a new ups, and a new cable, I connected to the web iterface, and it now says AVR Trim Active what does this mean? also what are the recomended setups for this. Thank you in advance

We have 100 Dell Optiplex systems here that we what to remote wan on lan but nothing we have tried will work. We are using Novell 6.5 and Zenworks 6.5 with the latest SP an with Windows 2000 on the destop side. I have all the setting in the bios...

I've just installed SUSE Linux 10 SP3, and Novell OES2 SP2 on a Dell server.  I can get the OS, Novell, eDirectory, iManager, NSS etc. installed all with no problem.  However, I cannot figure out how to make new NSS Volume.  When in iManager I...

This has happend before to my linux system, but I cannot remember the solution.
It starts on the main console login to the server.
In the left pannel, a list of users is normally displayed, but now are missing.
I cannot login using any user...

We have old accounting system running on novell netware 4.11. The company which has made software has closed hence we are stuck up with it and are still using it.

How do we  connect desktops with windows 7 ultimate os to  novell 4.11 server...

Hi Experts,

I was using SSL Checkpoint VPN.  I had to reproduce a client error so changed many setting in IE. deleted cookies, Temp files, Form data, etc. Now I am unable to connect again
Everytime after I type in the username and password,...

GroupWise 6.5sp6 Netware 6.5sp7
WebAccess will not load.
Can not get tomcat or apache to load.
Recreated the LDap server and group
Recreated the SSL certificates by doing the following
First, make sure your tree is healthy by performing...

good afternoon true believers...

We have a piece of software that has been having a disconnect issue/time out issue.  We have replaced the server and done tons of other troubleshooting steps.  Our vendor is now saying that our problem is being...

My company recently purchased Dell OptiPlex 760 workstations with Windows XP.  The workstations are fully patched.  We have a Novell network and installed the Novell 4.91 SP 5 client.  

The issue we are experiencing is that after a user logs...

I am trying to access a NetWare server running the CIFS (NFAP) protocol.  I have CIFS configured correctly because I can access the NetWare server from a Mac running Snow Leopard.  I verified this works by unloading CIFS (CIFSSTOP) from the...

Beginning the painful process of migrating a longstanding network app from XP to Win 7 running on a novell network

Have a small net with a dozen workstations on it all happily running XPSP3 and sharing the VFP data on a novell net.
...

We just bought this new server and installed Netware 6.5 sp7 just fine from the Netware install CD.  We booted from it as normal and installed without problem.  However, I want to start over again with the install.  It now won't boot from "any"...

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We have been having problems with a netware 6.5 server for months now. Every few weeks, users are unable to log on, and the server has to be restarted to resolve the issue. The server has to be physically switched off by holding the power...

Hello all,

I am having an issue with GroupWise 8.  I have approximately 100 external entity users.  We are in the process of migrating to Exchange.  However, the external entity accounts cannot be accessed.  

Basically, I cannot log into...

We're going to be migrating from NetWare 6.5 to Windows 2008 R2.  The AD infrastructure, etc. is already in place.  We just have the file migration portion left.  One "problem" that we have with how Windows handles folder security is that when...

I would like someone to convince me that Novell is a better product than what Microsoft has to offer, based on several things I have noted having worked in two Novell networks:

1. Third party tool availablility - it is possible I'm simply...

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I am trying to add Pools to my SLES 10 sp3, OES2sp3 server which I installed into an existing Tree. In iManager I LUM enabled admin, setup Role Based Services for Admin in the Tree and updated all plugins. Now when I attempt to add Polls &...

I have a windows 7 image that I was able to finally get roaming profiles to work with however several files in the application data folder are not copying over to the profile when logging out of the computer giving an error message that not all...

I have a Win 7 pc set up with Novell Client 2 sp1 win7 ir4 configured, when I set up Static ip on the pc I receive the followin message when I try to login to Novell "tree not found". When I chang the ip setting to DHCP I am able to login to...

We have a client using UltraTax by Creative Solutions on Novell.  On one workstation they are able to access UT06, the current version of the application but unable to access UT05 (2005 version) any longer.  On other workstations they are able to...

NetWare 6.5 server MUSTANG is one of four NetWare servers on this LAN, one of the four is running NW 5.1 but is only used for images (no client access)

Problems with setup and configuration of iPrint and iManager lead us to find a repeating...

Hi all!  

I'm in need of a method of transferring a shared NSS filesystem (OES2 Linux) to NTFS (2k8R2) while retaining as much of the permission structure as possible.  I'm already using Identity Manager to keep ADS and eDir in sync so I dont...

Hi experts,

Without any (known) changes having occured at the server, at least 1 employee is unable to map to any drives, whereas yesterday he could. What is error code 8901? I read posts here on experts exchange talking about migrating from...

Problem Description:
School network of @ 150 workstations.  2-3 times per day, anyone who attempts to login will suddenly be unable to connect to a specific one of the two servers that they map drives to.
This particular server has all their...

We rebooted a 6.5.1 server and Apache and Tomcat failed to load. In a browser, only LDAP responded (on ports 389 and 636); none of the other web services responded, because Apache wasn't loaded.

We eventually figured out Apache was failing to...

How to login to windows and authenticate to novell automatically

Hi.  

I have been working at a site that was an independent network.  
By this I mean the site had its own Router, Switches, Servers, Clients.  
Now this site joined an enterprise network that runs novell servers.

The site has 2 domain...

After upgrading a GroupWise server from NW6SP5 to NW 6.5SP6, the backup speed to is only 500K/min according to TSATEST.   After the upgrade IP would not bind to the board (Intel Pro/100 S) until I changed the Max Physical Receive Packet Size to...

Hi there,

Using SLES10.3, OES2, Zen 10.3.

I am trying to get pxe/preboot functioning.
Workstations are configured to connect to preboot server.
DHCP server is configured for pxelinux.0 preboot file. I don't use my SLES server for DHCP.
...

I have a Netware 3.12 file server,(patched with the last patch) with 80 MB de RAM and 2 HD of 2 gb (2 volumes, SYS and SYS2) and 6 gb (2 volumes, SYS3 and SYS4).

Everything was working ok, but yesterday the SYS4 volume did not mount. The...

We have one very old legacy system running on a Novell Netware 4.11 server.   Everything else is running on Windows 2003 or greater.   We have been connecting to the Novell server via XP without issues using the Netware client supplied my...

I have a Win XP Pro machine that i'm having client difficult with.

Is there a tool or utility out there to completely remove all instances of any novell clients that have been installed on a machine?

Thanks,

Patrick

I am trying to remove a Netware 6.5 server from the tree Permanently. This server is a Secondary server and has a Read/write replica on it. All data has been moved off  as well as any users. My plan to remove this server is as follows.
1....

Main server in a three server setup.  All NW 6.5 with recent patches, etc.  Everything running fine when we left on Friday.  This server holds the Master Replica, but we do have two RW elsewhere on the network.

I am going to jump right into...

Running a 3.12 netware server is in principle possible - instructions for doing it are at http://www.vmts.net/article/installnovell.htm. My installation was not so simple, as did not have a 3.12 install kit, but had to install 3.11 and upgrade...

What version of ldap does Windows Server 2003 Active Directory use?

Hi experts,

Scenario: I'm a newbie at Netware and having trouble getting iManager to work. My client has Netware 6.5 SP3 (yes, I will update to SP5 soon). When I try to open iManager, I get this:

There was a problem starting the servlet:...

I know Netware can recognize USB devices, but have not been able to find anything one way or the other on mounting a USB drive on a Netware server.

How can i export a list of users from NDS to a text file - i cant find the option to do it within console 1 or netware admin and copy and paste into excel will not work.

we are using netware v5 and users are within organisational containers
...

i have one user who is experiencing issues with groupwise. anywhere she goes, on any computer she logs onto, when she opens groupwise and enters the password, the groupwise client crashes.

i can log into her laptop open groupwise, and log...

Hello Experts,

I am trying to mount a Novell Netware 6.5 SP8 cifs using net use command.
net use o: \\server\share /user:NameHere

This connects and I am able to access the share from a command prompt session only(read/write).  The explorer...

I'm cleaning up some old scsi disks i have not used in a while, and because i used to be a novell CNE (MCNE at some point) some of the disks contain netware partitions / volumes.

So, i'm wondering if these netware partitions with their volumes...

when i tried to login and change the password In XP professional the following error occurs
No NetWare NDS trees were detected, unable to perform change password operation.
You may need to change your password separately on NetWare 2.X and 3.X...

I have my first Windows 7 PC and need to connect it to my Netware 3.12 server.  I have been running Windows XP successfully with the server.

I have read on another post that people have used Virtual PC with a new installation of XP to gain...

I have a computer running Windows XP Home edition.  This is a remote computer that needs to VPN into our network periodically to get access to files on the Netware server.  My initial thought was to just install the Netware Client on the machine...

I am in need of a way to silently remove the Novell client 2 SP1 for Windows (IR6) from all Windows Vista\7 machines in my domain.  Any process involving a silent script, GP or SCCM will work.  The problem is that the uninstall string is...

Hey,

Does anyone know where I can find a dl of the install disk? I have the licence disks, but not the actual server install disk, and need it desperately.

Cheers for any help.

PowerChute Business Edition has detected the following event:
Insufficient Runtime Available on Agent ZACA3

what do I do about this the agent is running on teh novell server, and the main part is running on the windows server

Hello Experts,

      I have a progarm which runs as a windows service (on NT/Win2k/Win XP machine) and it needs to access novell share.
      If I login to the computer with user x and authenticate with novell, the login script runs and i can see the...

How do I manually uninstall the Backup Exec Remote agent? The Agent is not showing up in the Add or Remove programs.

I need to uninstall and reinstall because when I first tried to install the agent and I received an error stating that my...

I have a problem that have been popping up now and then over the years. In Novell Netware (currently using 6.5 but it's been the same with the older versions) if a process hangs, like if I shut down MCaffee Netshield antivirus and the screen...

I have just discovered that our Netware server's LDAP_SSL - [servername] certificate has expired. PKIDiag doesn't fix this certificate and I can't find anything online in Novell's documentation on how to do perform and update. I've never messed...

Hello,

I am setting up a Windows Server 2008 R2 system with GroupWise 2012 and I am having many problems. I

My first hurdle is with eDirectory. I installed eDirectory but it does not appear to be working. How will I know if it is working? I...

I just completed a 6.0 to 6.5 migration. Post-migration, I am trying to get Apache 2.0 and Tomcat 4 to load. They appear to load fine (no errors on the console), but the apache2\logs\mod_jk.log shows this error everytime I go through the load...

I have just upgrade one of my customers from Novell Netware 6.5 to a Windows Server 2003 network.  Under the Novell network, they were using ZENworks Application Launcher to distribute their applications based on a group membership.  Now that...

I’m trying to run novell console 1 from Windows 7 and doesn’t want to work.

I’ve tried running console 1 in different compatibility modes but no luck.

It seems you can start console 1 and look at stuff just fine, but the problems comes...

Hello,

Does GroupWise 6.0.1 have the ability to export the calendar to ICS file? If so, how?

Thanks,
John

Problem is that we are unable to use the CIFS drive mapping from a Windows Vista or 7 client.

To map the CIFS share, we modified the local security policy for Network Security: LAN Manager Authentication Level, and changed it to Send LM &...

I have installed Novell Client 2 for Windows Vista on a Windows 7 RC computer.  The netware login script is not running.

Any ideas?  Is there a more appropriate Novell client to use?  That was all I found.

Can anyone share your experience of the best (and perhaps fastest) method to copy large numbers of files/folder WITH their trustee assignments between volumes on a netware 6.5 server?

Thanks in advance,
DK

I have a problem pinging the Netware server.
From Novell client /Novell connection I see that Trans type is IPX.
on the server I used LOAD INETCFG.NLM and found that TCP/IP is Disabled, so I reenabled it, but I can't see where to enter the...

Hello,

I'm back again. This time trying to configure the Groupwise WebAccess agent. I have a clean Novell Netware 6.5 Server running The latest version of Groupwise 7, and I'm having trouble installing the web access agent. The agent loads up...

I need help with the following vbscript.

This script keeps failing at Set TheGroup = NWUsrGrp1.Groups.Item("NDS:\\tree\org\ou\group")
I get Error: Item not located  Code: 800ACEDE Source: NWUsrGrp

I found the code on another site and...

I have small network of 4 Novell Netware 6.5 servers.  One of the severs is running on VMWare ESX server 3.5.  Whenever I check the Timesync status in DSRepair the server is not in sync and is +9 off.  

I ran DSRepair on both the single and...

I have been suffering several abends recently, I was not aware that they were happening at first because they were occuring out of hours (about 30mins into the backup) and no downtime was reported.  The abend was "Kernel detected an attempted...

NW 6.5 server, SP8

In an attempt to install more user licenses on this server, we were led to TID 7000769, that states the following:

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To install a new unlimited license into a tree where stratified NetWare...

I'm building a web front end to our corporate helpdesk system for our Intranet. Using PHP from a server I want to harvest information about the PC submitting the helpdesk enquiry - specifically, information from the registry of the PC being used....

Does anyone have experience in migrate a Netware volume with it user data to an OES2 Linux SLES 10 server ? The original nss volume is on an ISCSI netware 6.5 SAN.
Is there a way just to migrate the user rights and trustees to a new SLES device...

Hello,

We recently migrated a number of servers to the latest Netware 6.5.  I think I'm having a certificate issue with some of the servers.  New server installs work fine, and "some" of the other migrations also work fine.

However, on at...

Hi,

I have a Novell server which I have created a script on the top level tree. Here is the script:

Map Display Off
Map Errors On

Map F:=SYS:\
Map Root G:=SYS:\Programs
Map Root H:=SYS:\Data
Map Root U:=SYS:\Users\%CN

This...

After the novell login the windows workstation comes up asking for the user and password. After putting them in and checking the sync with windows box. It still asks each time I login to windows to sync with windows workstation. It also brings up...

RConsole to the server and the keyboard does not behave like an English keyboard (probably French since the keyboard is in Montreal). Of particular distress is that I cannot use the backslash key ( \ ). Have issued 'LOAD KEYB United States' which...

Is it possible to clear the DNS cache on a netware server without bringing it down?

much like you would on windows with ipconfig /flushdns

many thanks

We're in the process og removing novell login from our computers and going over to a windows only network. Since we're satisfied with use zenworks actively for remote control and application control, we want to continue using it. We now want...

We are migrating from Netware to Windows Active Directory and all machines are XP - most running 4.90 or 4.91 netware clients.

Is there any easy way to uninstall or disable the Netware client using Group Policy in AD so we don't have to...

I have a need to do an unattended/silent uninstall of the novell client for windows 7.  So far I have been unable to get it to uninstall completely without prompting me for something.  The only valid ways to uninstall the application seem to be...

I recently purchase an HP DL380 G6 to replace our current Novell server. Before I installed any software I ran burn in test for a couple of days and ran the full insight diagnostics several times.  

When I tried to do a test installation II...

Novell Client does not populate Tree, Context or Server on Windows 7 Pc's.  If you browse for the Tree, context and server they show up and can be selected but the login stil fails.  If you do it a second time (select all three) then the Novell...

Okay, I know we are way behind the times but we are still running our AD in mixed mode, with 1 remaining Windows 2K Server.  We had planned to remove it this evening, but we find that we have a couple of issues that I really need answered as soon...

I am running Windows XP Pro and am logging into a Netware network. Once XP loads, it is very slow to display the drives in Windows Explorer, it seems to be caching the drives, folders and files, because if you go out and come back into it,...

I have recently installed the GroupWise 6.5 Client on my Windows 2000 Server machine but I am unable to connect to the main Post Office on a GroupWise 6.5 server. (NetWare 6.5)

When started, GroupWise attempts to connect to the Post Office...

New install as evms volumes, and able to create any file format except for NSS.
"Engine: FSIM plug-in NSSFS returned error code 4 when called to mkfs on volume dev/evms/Data1"  is the error I receive.
Has anyone resolved this issue before? ...

I keep seeing seemingly-random XP Pro PCs that have issues accessing Netware (6.5 SP4) drives (mixed MS and Novell environment).  Novell login appears OK and the drives appear in My Computer but when you try and double-click a file in one of...

Both Novell and Microsoft servers are all patched up.

Primary Novell Network running on OES2 Linux with eDirectory 8.8SP2.  Also running Windows 2003 Active Directory Network.  Clients use Novell Client 32 4.91 SP4.

Novell share are quick...

How would I go about putting a bootcd.iso image on a USB key to boot and create/restore images?
Thanks!

I need to run a report against our Grouwise 8 database to show account activity. Is there any way to find out when the last time an account was used? I need to clean house and i am not getting any reports from HR on staff that are no longer...

Using Novell OES2 (SLES10.3).  Zenworks 10.3

My Zenworks Config Manager is reporting that my LDAP directory server certificate has expired.  I did some reading on the web and found some points about this issue.  The most popular being I should...

When a user tries to save a Microsoft Word document to a Netware Drive she gets this error "Check the drive and make sure the door is closed and it contains the correct disk or cd. " This does not happen with any other Microsoft product.. ie....

We had an issue with this on a NetWare 6.5 IBM server with ServeRaid 7t (Adaptec 2410SA) SATA RAID disk system and 1 Gbit NIC.
Copying smal files was so and so, while storing of large files - like iso images - on the server took "forever".
All...

 I am using Novell client for Windows Vista ver. 1.0.  When I try to change my Novell password I get the following error message:  Unable to login to eDirectory tree with Old Password.  Password cannot be updated now!  I even tried changing it in...

We have several of the NeoWare Thin Client systems running Windows CE connected to our terminal server.  I need to know how to do a factory reset on the system, the Terminal Properties pasword has been changed and we don't know what it is.  So...

Error message "cache memory allocator out of available memory appears on Netware 6.5 server. What can I do to fix this problem?

Trying to open GW archive from a mapped drive to a Netware volume. The archive is 20GB, using a GW client (7.0.3) on Vista. The 820e error comes up when the user opens any of the e-mails, the appointments open up correctly.

GW client is able...

I've asked this question (or similar in the past) but never received an answer that worked.

The problem:
When copying files from server to workstation (or visa versa), the copy process can become very slow and almost appear as if the process...