haas%basset.utah.edu@cs.utah.edu (Walt Haas) (01/03/91)
Does anybody have any idea what it takes to get Novell support on a Sun workstation? I asked Grover Righter at Novell this question a few months ago and he laughed and said "It's not even on the list". This is a pretty serious shortcoming as far as we are concerned. Thanks -- Walt
wittmann@erb1.engr.wisc.edu (art wittmann) (01/04/91)
In article <1991Jan3.082322.23410@hellgate.utah.edu> haas%basset.utah.edu@cs.utah.edu (Walt Haas) writes: >Does anybody have any idea what it takes to get Novell support on >a Sun workstation? I asked Grover Righter at Novell this question a few >months ago and he laughed and said "It's not even on the list". This >is a pretty serious shortcoming as far as we are concerned. > >Thanks -- Walt What sort of support are you looking for? A number of months ago, I do recall someone at Novell talking about IPX on Unix, but I really think they were "feeling the water". It seems that Novell's intentions to support NFS is a better way to go than trying to support IPX and related protocols on the Sun (or other) workstation. I suppose the real issue becomes one of server management. If you want to administer your Novell network from anything but a PC, your going to have trouble. There are some Macintosh APIs, but they are no where near as rich as the DOS APIs. I'd guess that some similar subset of APIs for Unix might come along some day as well. Art =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Art Wittmann Phone: (608) 263-1748 Network Manager Email: wittmann@engr.wisc.edu Computer Aided Engineering Center or: wittmann@cae.wisc.edu University of Wisconsin, Madison
haas%basset.utah.edu@cs.utah.edu (Walt Haas) (01/04/91)
In article <292@erb1.engr.wisc.edu> wittmann@erb1.UUCP (art wittmann) writes: >In article <1991Jan3.082322.23410@hellgate.utah.edu> haas%basset.utah.edu@cs.utah.edu (Walt Haas) writes: >>Does anybody have any idea what it takes to get Novell support on >>a Sun workstation? >What sort of support are you looking for? I want to have a workstation with data accessible by everybody on campus. This workstation needs to speak a variety of protocols, ideally TCP/IP, Novell and Appletalk, to serve essentially everybody. So I would need software that could perform server functions for PCs running as Novell clients. -- Walt
craig@com50.c2s.mn.org (Craig Wilson) (01/04/91)
In article <1991Jan3.082322.23410@hellgate.utah.edu> haas%basset.utah.edu@cs.utah.edu (Walt Haas) writes: >Does anybody have any idea what it takes to get Novell support on >a Sun workstation? I asked Grover Righter at Novell this question a few >months ago and he laughed and said "It's not even on the list". This >is a pretty serious shortcoming as far as we are concerned. > >Thanks -- Walt This is my primary concern, also. When it comes to Novell, I consider myself pretty ignurnt. I have to try to get a Novell network connected to my Sun Sparcstation and then try to get my program to work, though. My program uses Berkeley sockets to establish communications from IBM PC's to the Sparcstation, with the PC's running Sun's PC-NFS and 3Com ethernet cards. I have been monitoring this group for awhile to see if this specific issue was being addressed. I have been trying to make sense of the IPX encapsulation in TCP/IP packets. To date, I haven't seen much that I can directly relate to my problem. I guess my request for information boils down to this: Novell 3.1 Network |===================================================| I I I I I I +---------+ +---+ +---+ | | | | | | | Sun | +---+ +---+ | Sparc 2 | +---------+ +---------+ | | |IBM PS/2 | |IBM PS/2 | +---------+ +---------+ +---------+ What hardware is required? What software is required? What about network driver interference in the PC? Will I have to run two networks? Any help at all would be greatly appreciated and I will summarize any response that I receive. I have got to believe that in the global quest to tie everything to everything, this problem has come up and been resolved. /craig ---- Craig S. Wilson | Democracy |uucp path under construction. Com Squared Systems, Inc | is not a |craig@c2s.mn.org 2520 Pilot Knob Road | spectator |(612) 452-9522 voice Mendota Heights MN 55120 | sport. |(612) 452-3607 fax