Startup@cup.portal.com (Startup Consulting Company) (06/15/91)
I'm wondering about the efficacy and limitations of different approaches for rolling your own name service with Novell. One approach might be to logon to each server and read the bindery and cache and sort all of the names on the various servers into one master list. Are there other approaches that others have tried with any success? Are there fatal limitations to the approach I suggest? I realize that Novell will (eventually) have a name service. I need something that doesn't cost any additional money, and that is available to any combination of 286 and 386 servers. I realize that my approach can't guarantee up-to-the-moment accuracy, but it would give sufficient information for my purpose (I hope). Dave
timm@Sed.Novell.COM (Tim Myers) (06/17/91)
In article <43318@cup.portal.com> Startup@cup.portal.com (Startup Consulting Company) writes: > I'm wondering about the efficacy and limitations of different > approaches for rolling your own name service with Novell. One > approach might be to logon to each server and read the bindery > and cache and sort all of the names on the various servers > into one master list. Are there other approaches that others > have tried with any success? Are there fatal limitations to > the approach I suggest? I realize that Novell will (eventually) > have a name service. I need something that doesn't cost any > additional money, and that is available to any combination of > 286 and 386 servers. I realize that my approach can't guarantee > up-to-the-moment accuracy, but it would give sufficient information > for my purpose (I hope). > > Dave Novell *DOES* have a name service. It's called Novell Name Service and It works on both NetWare v2.2 and v3.11. You pay money for it. "Rolling your own" would be redundant and your development costs would be greater than the price of our solution. ++Tim =========================================== Tim Myers Senior Software Consultant Novell, Inc. "Macintosh: the only GUI that doesn't SUCK."