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- Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 13:55:09 -0500
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- From: stephen@BOKONON.UUCP
- Subject: Re: Netware Questions (going from 2.2 to 3.11)
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- $ 1. We have a SUN IPC workstation that we would like the entire
- $ network to be able to access. Currently we have one PC on the
- $ network with an ethernet card running LAN Workplace for DOS 4.0.
- $ This works fine for this person but we would like everyone to be
- $ able to access the SUN machine. What do we need to do to allow
- $ users on the network (if we did go to 3.11) to access the SUN
- $ machine and if possible, have the SUN access our server.
-
- LWP4DOS (or the server-based version, Lan WorkGroup for DOS) will allow
- PCs to telnet and ftp etc. into your Sun. NetWare NFS will allow the
- Sun to mount NetWare volumes via NFS. Is this the level of access between
- the two worlds you desire? I believe there's a product available
- to simulate a DOS machine on the Sun (I think Insignia's SoftPC is
- available on the Sun). I think there's also a program available that
- turns a Sun into a NetWare fileserver.
-
- $ 2. We would like to possibly put a SQL server or similar database
- $ engine on our server. I am aware of Novell's Netware SQL v3.0
- $ product and was wondering if ther are any other similar products
- $ out there that are similar that we could look at.
-
- Novell, Gupta, Sybase and Oracle all have SQL server NLM packages;
- in fact, one of the servers in our office is running the first three
- right now for development of two systems for clients. None of them
- is perfect; most of them are _not_ cheap (for Sybase, and possibly for
- some others, watch out for the _mandatory_ support contract). Not
- all of them are terribly stable; Sybase's first release was absolutely
- brutal, but they've got most of the bugs out (and one of the bugs is
- a result of a bug in CLIB.NLM).
-
- $ 3. How complicated is the move from 2.2 to 3.11?
-
- Depending on how you plan to do it, not necessarily very difficult.
- Novell has utilities available that will allow you to upgrade via
- a tape drive, upgrade from one box to another across a network, or
- even upgrade right in place. Note that none of these methods are
- perfect; you will lose passwords and, depending on how you do it,
- you may lose ownership, trustee rights, etc. There was a document
- posted here only a couple of days before this question explaining
- Novell's new upgrade-in-place utility.
-
- -Steve
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- Stephen M. Dunn, CNE, ACE, Sr. Systems Analyst, United System Solutions Inc.
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