> Somewhere, we have a Novell Netware File Server (apparently NetWare 5.70.05). > The person that really knew and installed this server, left over a year ago, > and there is really not going to be a replacement for the job function/title, > or for that matter, the position will not be filled either.
Oh fun, hope someone knows how to do backups! > This fileserver supports the F: drive on some 2,000 PCs. It represents the > users private network space. > The SAN that is dedicated to this is about 2TB. > > I've been asked to see what it would take to convert this from Netware to > Samba on our mainframe (SUSE 11 SP 1). Different protocol, different user model, different permission system. 5.0 is at least new enough to support TCP/IP as the base protocol but it sounds to me like a whole world of pain and that you would need to reconfigure all 2000 clients, migrate the data and redo the user and permissions. You also need to work out what is doing all the auth for the Windows systems, whether that is coming off the Novell setup. > Well, we would need to add in some drives to our DS6800 (ficon attached). > I believe we have sufficient CPU and memory in to support this. NCP (the underlying Novell protocol) and the core OS are *very* low latency. It's one thing they got right, so you may have to consider latency issues and performance very carefully depending upon what people are relying on performancewise - and not just throughput. > I've never tried, but there is documentation about some sort of automatic way > of adding users to Samba, but I don't know if this applies to my > configuration. You can do this and you can use other systems as an authentication backend to Samba. > Of the many security systems we have, it looks like NetWare is using > eDirectory. eDirectory is X.500, but does have interfaces for accessing the data and things like report generators so you could import the data that way. I guess in the normal run of things you'd migrate that lot and have the Samba system act as your PDC. Thankfully its years since I dealt with this stuff, although to give it its due while Netware is a bit of a world of its own protocol wise, it was in its time vastly faster than and a lot more stable than Windows. In fact I knew several sites who went back from Windows servers to Netware simply because it didn't crash. Alan ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@vm.marist.edu with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For more information on Linux on System z, visit http://wiki.linuxvm.org/
