Category: Novell

NCP connections and Watchdog under OES Linux

A customer of my complained that after migrating from Novell Netware 6.5 to OES2 Linux, the users complained that sometimes the loose their connection with a specific server. After a trace (how to do show look here) I saw that if a users doesn’t uses a server for more than a hour his connection gets […]

Friday September 5th, 2008 in Novell | 2 Comments »

Groupwise 8 and OES2SP1 availible as public BETA

Novell released public beta’s for Groupwise 8 and OES2 SP1. I’m running Groupwise 8 (Bonsai) for quit a while now (If I remeber right Januari 2008) so I will be upgrading my server toninght! I also tried to download OES2 SP1 but I cannot find it on the website of Novell. Hope the publish it […]

Thursday September 4th, 2008 in Novell | No Comments »

Free Geeko Images from Novell

On the Coolsoluiton site from Novell, there is a post with free Geeko desktop background! Cool! http://www.novell.com/communities/node/5895/show-your-pride-cool-suse-linux-geeko-images-you

Wednesday September 3rd, 2008 in Novell | No Comments »

Monitor TCP traffic between Server and Workstation

Sometime you have the need to see whats happening between the server and a workstation. You can use the utility tcpdump to capture the tcp data between the server and workstation and analyze this data with Wireshark (a tool that comes with linux). This is the syntax: tcpdump src workstationip or dst workstationip -i eth0 […]

Wednesday September 3rd, 2008 in Novell | No Comments »

How to update to SLES/SLED 10 SP1 AND SP2

Novell released a interesting TID how you easily can update to SP1 or SP2 for SLES/SLED 10. But don’t update OES2 to SLES10 SP2 at this moment!!!!! You have to wait for SP1 for OES2. The link for SP1 is this. And for SP2 is this

Tuesday September 2nd, 2008 in Novell | No Comments »