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Date: Saturday, January 23, 1999 1:15 PM
Subject: Re: kernel 2.2.0, portmap, ipx and so on
>> Is there anything for RedHat Linux 5.x ??? I need to
>> to NDS and bindery support / administration as well
>> as access NetWare file systems.
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>The free client supports netware over IP in 2.2 but not NDS - Novell NDS
>is a proprietry closed and secret protocol. If you wish to trust your
>organisation to an unknown monopoly supplier you'll need to get monopoly
>closed binary NDS support from Caldera. I doubt Caldera have any option
>but to give you the stuff binary only too
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You are correct that only binaries can be distributed at the moment due to
Novell's reliance on the RSA BSAFE crypto library for authentication to NDS
and (IMHO) and their continued lack of foresight in recognizing the benefit
of opening up their protocols for everyone to use. I would imagine that, at
some point, they will either "get it" or enough of the world will move to
alternatives (Linux) that this whole thing wil be moot anyway. Meanwhile,
Caldera Systems is working to try to work to ensure the NDS client will work
with not only OpenLinux, but also other dists as well....
Drew
