NOVELL TECHNICAL INFORMATION DOCUMENT TITLE: NetWare 4 Days Q&A DOCUMENT ID: TID021643 DOCUMENT REVISION: A DATE: 28JUL94 ALERT STATUS: Yellow INFORMATION TYPE: Issue README FOR: 4DAY01.EXE NOVELL PRODUCT and VERSION: NetWare 4.0 NetWare 4.01 NetWare 4.02 ABSTRACT: NetWare 4 Days Questions and Answers ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- DISCLAIMER THE ORIGIN OF THIS INFORMATION MAY BE INTERNAL OR EXTERNAL TO NOVELL. NOVELL MAKES EVERY EFFORT WITHIN ITS MEANS TO VERIFY THIS INFORMATION. HOWEVER, THE INFORMATION PROVIDED IN THIS DOCUMENT IS FOR YOUR INFORMATION ONLY. NOVELL MAKES NO EXPLICIT OR IMPLIED CLAIMS TO THE VALIDITY OF THIS INFORMATION. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Self-Extracting File Name: 4DAY01.EXE Revision: A Files Included Size Date Time \ 4DAY01.TXT (This File) Q. Are there any improvements in interactivity between 4x and Add-ons (NLM), such as SAA 1.3B or connect? A. NetWare for SAA version 1.3B runs on NetWare 4.02 using Bindery Services. An NDS exploitive version of NetWare for SAA is currently in the Beta phase, however. The NetWare Connect product level 1.0.34 is required for NetWare 4.02. This also contains a readme file specifying other product component requirements. Updates are available on NetWire. Q. Can 4x compression & sub-Allocation be installed onto an existing 3x server without loss of data? How painful is it overall? A. These facilities are available only upon the NetWare 4.02 operating system. Upgrading from NetWare 3.11/3.12 can be performed as an in place upgrade. Novell has published a script to assist users in achieving a smooth upgrade. Q. When will DSMERGE become available? A. With the next major release of NetWare 4, scheduled for later this calendar year, an NDS directory merging utility will be available. At this stage, Novell recommends that customers convert to NetWare 4.02 and NDS now, and merge the directory trees later. This will allow them to reap the benefits of NetWare 4.02, and gain directory definition experience prior to merging the trees. Q. How would NetWare 4 be integrated in a site that is mostly SUN system based? What would be the primary benefits? A. Sun users can use NetWare NFS on the NetWare 4.02 server. In addition to the existing benefits realized with NetWare 3, the use of NetWare 4.02 allows these users to benefit from the NetWare 4.02 operating system advantages including data compression and migration. Q. We've recently installed a new NetWare 3.12 network (within the last year). If we move to 4.x, how difficult is the re-training going to be for the administrator and for users? Will 4.x provide any advantages for remote access? A. The new utilities, such as NWADMIN are Windows based, and user intuitive. This makes administrator and user training less burdensome. Remote access is provided by the NetWare Connect product. The product level required is 1.0.34, which contains a readme file specifying other requirements. Updates are available on NetWire. Q. What application note describes VLM 1.1? Is NW ADMIN only specific to NW 4 or can you use on a NW 3 platform? A. NWADMIN is exclusively a NetWare 4 utility. All printers defined through Pconsole can, however be administered through NWADMIN. Q. What Multimedia support is available on CD-ROM access with NetWare 4 - ie: sound card support, special video? Compatibility (Integration) of Application programs into NetWare 4 - How do I know what will work - ie: Lotus says notes doesn't yet how will we be informed of compatibility? A. Novell's NetWare Video 1.0 NLM product is currently shipping. This product plays back the audio and video from a server based file (CD ROM or file system resident), and feeds it to the Windows based user application running on the workstation. The NLM based service is transparent to the application. This allows centralization of multimedia data, which is accessible to all multimedia workstations on the network. For full details, contact your local NetWare Authorized reseller. Q. How long before NetWare 4 will displace the 66% market share of 3? A. NetWare 4 sales have been increasing. In 1993 NetWare 4 was ten percent of overall NOS sales. It took over two years from the announcement on NetWare 3 for it to overtake NetWare 2's revenue and licenses shipped. Today it is hard for us to say when NW4 will overtake 3 but we are on our way to making NetWare 4 pervasive and the new standard for distributed computing. Q. Is there any way to program a NLM module? A. There is a complete guide to NLM programming entitled "Writing NetWare 4.0 NLMs". It is available through..... Q. What Windows drivers are necessary for clients running OracleWare on NW 3.12 operating in a NW 4.01 system? When will OracleWare be available on NW 4.01? A. Firstly, it should be made clear that OracleWare, NetWare 3.12 Edition includes the NetWare 3.12 operating system, upon which it runs. Also, the Oracle 7 NLM, will run on NetWare 4.02 today. You can use the drivers provided in the NetWare "red box" package. The recommended most current DOS and Windows ODI drivers, however, are available by downloading from CompuServe: NOVFILES Forum DOSUP9.EXE for DOS ODI drivers WINUP9.EXE for Windows ODI drivers Novell has no plans to make OracleWare (the integrated database and network operating system in a single package) available on the NetWare 4.02 operating system. Rather, customers should contact Oracle directly for information pertaining to the packaging of NetWare 4.02 into the OracleWare product. Q. As Novell positions itself towards an enterprise wide provider of NOS, your company needs to also position itself from the support standpoint. What action, changes is your company taking to provide support to large companies...or will you be supporting companies through resellers as you have done for years? A. Novell is doing a lot of evaluation and analysis of what is the best way to support large enterprise networks. Currently Novell is working with all of the consulting partners like EDS, Aurther Anderson, etc as part of our Consulting Partners Program to support some large companies. We are also working with IBM, DEC and HP's support groups to support NetWare better and of course we have great education programs available today to train the users and administrators how NetWare 4.02 works. We strongly believe that the resellers and channel will be first line support for many business and we will support them as one of our first priorities. Questions from July NetWare 4 Days ---------------------------------- Q. How do we solve the following problem? We migrated out NetWare 3.11 to 4.01 over the weekend and it went well with the clients using DOS 7. We were using a Dlink-3200 on an EISA 486DX50 and found it corrupted memory above 16mb. Then we installed an Eagle NE3200 and the server would abend, even with less than 16mb. A. Please contact your local support organization. Technical support questions cannot be addressed in this limited space forum. Q. When running NetWare 4 without bindery emulation, will RIPS and SAPS on WAN links be cut down? A. A NetWare 4.02 server (with or without bindery emulation running) can adjust the timing of both RIP and SAP parameters. Also, a NetWare 4.02 server can restrict SAPs on specified networks. NetWare Link State Protocol (NLSP) will be able to replace RIP and SAP traffic on a WAN on NetWare 3 and NetWare4 networks. NLSP is also backward compatible with RIP and SAP. Q. Can NetWare 4 LAN script file put the LAN to sleep from 12am to 6am and put itself back on-line at 6:01am? (3Com Plus has this capability.) A. A fundamental function of NetWare 4 is the login restriction facility. Using this, the administrator can prevent users from logging in to the network during specified time periods. This is specifiable on a per user basis, so that some users (administrators, userids that run utilities, etc.,) can be allowed to login at times when the general user community is locked out. This feature is fully supported in NetWare 4.02, as it is in the NetWare 3 operating systems. Q. Will the password file be available for an encryption by the administrator? This will enable the administrator to let the user know what their password is if the user loses the password. A. Administrators do not know, and cannot find users' passwords. If the user has forgotten the password, the administrator can set that user's password to a specific value, and declare it as having expired. This then forces the user to change that password to a new unique character string. Q. What backup products interface with NDS and SMS? A. Please refer to the NetWare 4 Backup Solutions Guide for full details. Backup solutions for NDS using SMS are available from the following vendors: Arcada (Conner) (YES Tested and Approved) Cheyenne (YES Tested and Approved) Emerald IBM Legato Mountain Novell Palindrome (YES Tested and Approved) Rememory (YES Tested and Approved) Sytron System Enhancement (YES Tested and Approved) Q. In a new enterprise-wide sales opportunity, would Novell prefer to see their dealers pushing NetWare 4 on all servers, on only on the administrative server with the remaining servers running 3.x? A. NetWare 4.02 is now be the preferred operating system installed on servers. It will provide all services that NetWare 3 servers offer, with added cost savings and administrative benefits. The most productivity gains and increases on ROI are realized on the NetWare 4.02 servers. It should therefore be viewed as the NOS of choice for the resellers and customers alike. Q. May a server object be contained in more than one OU container? A. Defining a server object in more than one container is achieved through the use of one or more Alias Objects. This applies to any resource (object) that is accessed by users from different Organizational Units. Q. Can the NDS tree be backed up from a workstation (using a DOS-based backup program) instead of server-based backup (.NLM)? A. Storage Management Services (SMS) provides a Target Service Agent (TSA) for NDS which provides the mechanism for backing up NDS. The backup program itself can be running on a DOS workstation but must use SMS to perform the backup. Q. Does DOS extension mapping really convert DOS apps into Mac apps that a user can view and modify? Once changed, can they be accessed by PC-DOS users/apps? A. The DOS extension mapping creates filetype and creator information for access by Macintosh applications and users. The actual file content conversion and/or compatibility remain the responsibility of the application, however. Q. What problems could one run into while connecting a 4.01 network to a 3.11 network with a token-ring topology with fiber optics connecting the two? A. [CHECK THIS] There are no special requirements for connecting a network with NetWare 4.01 to a network running NetWare 3.11. The planning involved in connecting two token rings via fiber optic media does not change because of the versions of NetWare. Factors such as network speeds, routing, and packet sizes will need to be considered. Q. As a Novell reseller, we are accustomed to putting their servers onto our network cabling and being able to access both servers (when upgrading software, etc.). If these are both 4.x servers, how would we do this? They both have independent directory trees. A. They both have independent directory trees. With NetWare 4, you can still access any server (or any other resource) on your network that you have rights to. Your two directory trees are simply two independent databases of information about the resources and rights on your network. The traditional file structure and access to servers is still available through tools such as RCONSOLE and XCONSOLE. Q. For a brand new NetWare user, what is a good path to follow to become educated on NetWare 4 and NetWare NLMs? What tools are available? A. With NetWare 4.02, the "Simplified Install" process is available. This results in a quick installation of a working system, and a default configuration for a functional NDS system. This relieves the installer of the burden of indepth understanding and planning prior to commencing installation. Additionally, there are formal Novell Education classes available through the NAEC organization, which are highly recommended. Finally, the Network Professional Association (NPA) also offers lab sessions in which Novell staff conduct tutorials pertaining to the NetWare 4 operating system. These are lab sessions in which the participants perform the typical tasks of NetWare 4.02 and NDS installation and set up. Q. We are using UnixWare and LAN Workplace for DOS along with NetWare 3.11 to support access to the internet. Will these need to be upgraded when we install 4.01? A. No special upgrades are required with current software levels. NetWare NFS 1.2C and NetWare NFS Gateway 1.2 are the required product revision levels. Q. How does the single login feature of PNW/Novell DOS 7--which I assume is a bindery-type login--affect the single login feature of a NetWare 4.0 container with bindery emulation? Which system would take priority--the PNW single login or the NW4 single login? Would they interfere with each other? A. Personal NetWare accomplishes login via the Virtual Loadable Modules (VLM) technology which is the same method used by standard NetWare 4.X clients. Note that if a user has the same USERID and PASSWORD on their Personal NetWare workgroups as they do on the NetWare 4.X network, then a single login can attach them to both the workgroups and the NetWare 4.X network. Q. What version of Excelan LAN Workplace should we upgrade to for NetWare 4.x compatibility with TCP/IP drivers? A. See answer to question number 26, above regarding currency of software. Q. Does NetWare 4.x offer peer-to-peer networking for file and printer sharing? If not, will this be available soon? A. Novell's peer-to-peer product is called Personal NetWare. Personal NetWare is not included with NetWare 4.02 currently. Novell is evaluating whether to include that in future releases of NetWare 4, but a decision has not been reached at this point in time. I will say that the momentum is to keep Personal NetWare a separate product. Q. What is the difference between a domain-based system and NDS? A. Please provide details pertaining to "Domain-based System. Q. Are there any known problems with cc:Mail 3.0 when moving to NetWare 4.x? A. The cc:Mail 3.0 product's use of NetWare services is limited to its post office database structure residing on a NetWare volume. There are currently no known problems involving cc:Mail 3.0 that are specific to the NetWare 4.02 environment. Q. What is difference between NetWare/IP and FleX/IP? Why choose one over the other? A. NetWare/IP is a connectivity product that allows routing of native IP packets between NetWare servers. FLEX/IP is a NetWare product that allows the services of NetWare spooled printers to be accessed by Unix users. Q. Explain the difference between NetWare SAA and the typical gateway products available? A. NetWare for SAA is much more than a gateway. While providing the gateway function to AS/400 and IBM Mainframes services, NetWare for SAA also serves as a platform for distributed applications. Examples of these include solutions available from Novell and third party organizations that offer database gateways, electronic messaging interchange, and data backup/archival to mainframe DASD. Furthermore, the NLM implementation is a high performance 32 bit process that is tightly integrated with the NetWare operating system. For users that require both DEC connectivity as well as IBM connectivity, the NetWare for LAT product shares some of the communications NLMs that NetWare for SAA uses. Q. How can you restrict a user's access to one of more of the file servers while still keeping that person on the network? A. Though users in the NetWare 4 environment log into the entire logical network rather than a single file server, their rights to files and resources are controlled by the supervisor. Using NetWare Directory Services, you give a specific user specific rights to one or more file server or resources on one or more file server. Or you can create a group with specific rights and add that user to the group. When he or she joins, he or she automatically inherits the rights of the other members of the group. Q. Does NetWare 4.0 communicate with IBM 36 RPG2. data? A. NetWare for SAA is the IBM host connectivity product within the NetWare family. This product does not support connectivity to System/36 hosts. Q. How many printer ports are supported for DOS clients? OS/2? UNIX? Mac? A. The maximum number of printers for DOS, Unix, and OS/2 is 253. On Macintosh systems only one printer is active due to the operation of the Finder process. Q. Can you combine various 3.x licenses into one 1000-user 4.x license? A. Novell announced today, July 19, a new consolidated upgrade matrix to become effective August 1. Along with price reductions and competitive upgrades, this new matrix also includes the capability to consolidate licenses toward the purchase of one higher level user count license. So, the answer is YES!! Q. Is Novell working with Microsoft to enable future compatibility with the recently announced MXS "exchange" (enterprise-mail) product? A. MXS exchange operates as an application server on the network and coexists with other network servers. Microsoft has announced an intent for MXS to "shadow" the NDS directory information into its own directory. Interoperability with Novell's NetWare MHS will require the use of the SMTP and/or X.400 messaging protocols or an MHS gateway. 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