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implementing IP on a novell 4.11 server
We are currently running a Novell 4.11 server in a mixed Novell - Windows environment. Novell is our main server. We are setting up a VPN but cannot connect to novell on the server side. What I would like to know is how to set up a novell 4.11 server so that it uses IP as a protocol with a novell client. We believe it would be easier to implement novell ip through the vpn tunnel as opposed to ipx/spx.
Thanks very much in advance.
Thanks very much in advance.
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Yeah, NWIP will work on NetWare v4.11...if you're sufficiently masochistic. And you can find it. Novell doesn't sell it any more.
The Asker should really upgrade to a version of NetWare from THIS CENTURY, one that will natively support TPC/IP.
The Asker should really upgrade to a version of NetWare from THIS CENTURY, one that will natively support TPC/IP.
Unless your VPN can tunnel IPX in IP, you're out of luck. NetWare 4.11 can only "talk" NCP (Novell Core Protocol) over IPX. Its TCP/IP support is limited to certain *nix-compatibility features or options like LPR/LPD print services and FTP. You cannot set up a NetWare 4.11 server to use the Novell client32 TCP/IP only. It's simply not supported in that configuration, period.
If you weren't using a long-obsolete-and-no-longe
To be bluntly honest, it would be easier to upgrade your NetWare to a currently-supported version than to try to tunnel IPX across an IP VPN, unless IPX tunneling is a supported feature of the VPN.
There was a "NetWare/IP" bastardization that *might* work for you on NetWare 4.11, but it's not much fun to work with. I wouldn't recommend it and only mention it because that's what it was for - tunneling IPX NCP packets over a TCP/IP WAN. I don't know if the current Novell Client32 has support for it any more.