On Thu, Dec 10, 2009 at 8:53 PM, Richard Chycoski <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi: > > First: Novell lost. They had NDS, and then Microsoft announced Active > Directory to torpedo them (before actually building it!) and succeeded. > That's life in the tech lane, move on. Don't even think of putting > anything new on NDS. >
NDS became eDirectory. It hasn't been NDS for many years. I worked at a library a few years ago and we used eDirectory. We authenticated Windows and Macs, and were in the infancy of experimenting with authenticating our Linux servers and configuring NSS to use eDirectory. Novell had just taken over Suse at the time, so I only used SLES experimentally, but as far as Netware/eDirectory/Groupwise went, it was solid as a rock. We didn't exactly push the envelope of anything by any stretch of the imagination at the library, but my experience with Novell products is about 90% positive (my only gripe was that it was often hard to find stuff on their website or to determine what version of something you were running because the marketing name and the technical name of a given piece of software was often drastically different, but I have that complaint about most vendors). > > Edward Ned Harvey wrote: >> >> Hey y’all. >> >> I don’t use Novell, but I’m curious about them. I find the website >> isn’t the most enlightening source of information, at least for me, >> somebody who knows basically nothing about them. I’d like to know >> what, and if, people are using them for, and in what ways my life >> could be better if only I knew what I was missing... >> >> There was a time (over a decade ago), when Novell (Netware) was >> synonymous to all the things that are now synonymous with Active >> Directory. That is – User management, security, single sign on, etc. >> But obviously the cross-platform capabilities of AD are somewhat >> limited, and I wonder if there’s a newer implementation of something >> that would be a suitable alternative. If you wanted something like AD >> that works equally well for Windows, Mac, and Linux (and possibly >> others) is that a complete unreality? I am aware of such things as >> Kerberos and LDAP of course. But using Kerb / LDAP, you couldn’t for >> example easily join a Mac or Linux laptop to a domain, login once, and >> expect your laptop to continue working even after you’ve taken it >> away, outside the network. >> >> Am I off track? Anyone care to share their experiences? >> > > _______________________________________________ > Tech mailing list > [email protected] > http://lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tech > This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators > http://lopsa.org/ > _______________________________________________ Tech mailing list [email protected] http://lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tech This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators http://lopsa.org/
