Date: Fri, 12 Jul 1996 17:36:02 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org> To: jim@starshine.org (Jim Dennis) Cc: bala@cst.com.au, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Novell 3.12 on FreeBSD Message-ID: <199607130036.RAA02293@phaeton.artisoft.com> In-Reply-To: <199607110341.UAA00346@starshine> from "Jim Dennis" at Jul 10, 96 08:41:21 pm
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> Even if you had a FreeBSD Netware client (let's say that > someone took the Linux ncpfs or the Caldera bindery/NDS > client and got it running under FreeBSD (no small feat since > they both rely on kernel support for IPX)) -- you still wouldn't > be able to do proper Netware backups. > > Merely being able to copy files off of a Netware server doesn't > constitute a *backup*. Right. You need an SMS interface. > Caldera is a commercial package -- but much less expensive than > any NLM solution that I've heard of. Caldera is also less > expensive then NT or OS/2 and compares pretty favorably to > DOS/Windows solutions (except that it's *much* more stable and > rich than DOS/Windows). > > If it was me -- I'd go for the Caldera option. In fact, > when it was me -- I did. There are SMS soloutions for Solaris x86; it's unlikely anything you do short of SMS will back up NDS information correctly. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.
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