OS X to Novell Netware networking

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smatanovicsmatanovic
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in Genius Bar edited January 2014
Hi everyone. I am trying to connect a PowerBook running Mac OS X 10.2

to a windows-based Netware network using the IPX protocol (v. 4.11). Prosoft makes a Netware client for X, but it requires Netware v. 5 or above. Novell does not make a OS X client for Netware 4.11.



Any idea whether a Netware client, installed on Win98 w/in Virtual PC, would be able

to connect and access all of the resources on an IPX network?



Does anyone have any other ideas or insights?



Thanks in advance,

SM

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  • Reply 1 of 10
    alcimedesalcimedes Posts: 5,486member
    i'm a sys admin at a major university. right now we're going through the exact process you're describing. what i can tell you.



    you can't use a novel client in OSX over IPX. IPX is old and dead, so OXS doesn't support it. however, old novel networks still rely on it. so you're screwed basically.



    there is a client for OSX that works over TCP/IP, but it sounds like that's not what you need. your only other option is to boot into OS9 to connect to your novel drives. the OS9 client still supports IPX.
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  • Reply 2 of 10
    smatanovicsmatanovic Posts: 120member
    Can I run the OS9 client in classic mode and still gain access to all of the network resources (specifically printers)? I have to use VPC, as well, because I have several Windows-only apps that I must use.



    [quote]Originally posted by alcimedes:

    <strong>i'm a sys admin at a major university. right now we're going through the exact process you're describing. what i can tell you.



    you can't use a novel client in OSX over IPX. IPX is old and dead, so OXS doesn't support it. however, old novel networks still rely on it. so you're screwed basically.



    there is a client for OSX that works over TCP/IP, but it sounds like that's not what you need. your only other option is to boot into OS9 to connect to your novel drives. the OS9 client still supports IPX.</strong><hr></blockquote>
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  • Reply 3 of 10
    alcimedesalcimedes Posts: 5,486member
    as far as i know, you cannot boot into OS9 to access the novel drives.



    i've checked around a few places trying to get more information about this but with no luck so far. seems that IPX will never go anywhere on OSX.
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  • Reply 4 of 10
    torifiletorifile Posts: 4,024member
    I haven't done this in a long time, but as far as I can remember, I was able to use the novell client under win98 in VPC. I hated it b/c it was so freakin' slow, but it worked. :/
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  • Reply 5 of 10
    alcimedesalcimedes Posts: 5,486member
    oh crap, what i meant to say was that you can't just launch classic and get it to work. booting into OS9 does work just fine.
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  • Reply 6 of 10
    smatanovicsmatanovic Posts: 120member
    Is this even worth doing, then? I work in a pc-only office, but want to use a Powerbook as my primary machine, w/o losing access to the windows-olny apps that we use. It sounds more and more like I'm going to be stuck using a Windows box (or notebook) rather than a powerbook...





    [quote]Originally posted by torifile:

    <strong>I haven't done this in a long time, but as far as I can remember, I was able to use the novell client under win98 in VPC. I hated it b/c it was so freakin' slow, but it worked. :/</strong><hr></blockquote>
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  • Reply 7 of 10
    smatanovicsmatanovic Posts: 120member
    ^^^
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  • Reply 8 of 10
    torifiletorifile Posts: 4,024member
    Can you use Microsoft's Remote Desktop Client? It'll allow you to use windows only apps if you have a terminal server that you can log into. Otherwise, VPC will work for Novell log in (I've used it before), but it's just really slow.
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  • Reply 9 of 10
    smatanovicsmatanovic Posts: 120member
    My IT dept. is requiring that I use a Novell client. I am not sure if this is a security issue or something else, but, since I am the only Mac user in the firm, I don't have a whole lot of leverage.



    Thanks,

    SM



    [quote]Originally posted by torifile:

    <strong>Can you use Microsoft's Remote Desktop Client? It'll allow you to use windows only apps if you have a terminal server that you can log into. Otherwise, VPC will work for Novell log in (I've used it before), but it's just really slow.</strong><hr></blockquote>
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  • Reply 10 of 10
    patmcfar8patmcfar8 Posts: 84member
    I have a similar problem... Anybody know how to get 10.2 to work with Novell Groupwise 5.5?
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