[THIN] Re: Novell Integration

  • From: "Ron Oglesby" <roglesby@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Fri, 5 Sep 2003 09:50:29 -0500

"How did I know that you were going to respond?"

Cuz' I haven't seen your skinny butt out here in a long time. That's
why.... And I always gotta help out a bro.  ever get those CTX NUT
license plates?


Ron Oglesby
Senior Technical Architect
 
RapidApp
Office 312.372.7188
Mobile 815.325.7618
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-----Original Message-----
From: craig@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:craig@xxxxxxxxxxxx] 
Sent: Friday, September 05, 2003 9:09 AM
To: thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [THIN] Re: Novell Integration

How did I know that you were going to respond?

I might take a look at both solutions, then, this weekend.  I need to
get 
moving on this and I'm afraid that the Windows route is going to be a
bit too 
burdensome.  At this point in time, the school has no plans to move from

NetWare any time soon.  Actually, their servers have been rock solid and
have 
had no problems since their inception (knock on wood).

I know NetWare enough to do whatever I need in NWAdmin.  Outside of
that, 
though, I have to rely on others.  We do have two guys though, that know
Novell 
stuff inside and out.  So, I'm not too worried about the support.

My biggest concern is not that one of these routes wont work - I know
that they 
will.  My concern is about simplicity.  Their "administrator" doesnt
know much 
in the way of network administration and thankfully she knows as much.
What I 
want is to be able to leave this project and know that Im not going to
get a 
call every 4 hours on how to do such and such.  By adding in the Windows

component, I know that things will get a bit more complex than they
would have 
with the ZENWorks route.

Anyway, thanks for the input.  Ill take a look at the DLU/Zenworks deal
a bit 
more today.

Quoting Ron Oglesby <roglesby@xxxxxxxxxxxx>:

> Craig, Long time no see, or hear.....
> Anyway, the Netware piece works but is not in use as much as the
windows
> stuff obviously. So when something breaks or doesn't work it is hard
to
> find help (or even good support) on it.
> 
> If you don't know novell doing this is problematic. I have a real good
> novel guy on my team so it doesn't scrare me. But if I didn't I would
> recommend Windows every time.
> 
> I guess the question is that if you HAVE to implement this and no one
> else you still have to do what is best for the customer. If they don't
> want windows use netware just be prepared to LEARN a lot.
> 
> BTW the roaming profile is assigned as a User attribute just like
NT/2K
> and DLU handles creating the local user and setting up profiles
etc....
> 
> PS> Novell has decided netware is dead. No more development for that
> network OS. Instead all of their development if for Linux. Why stay
with
> a dead product.
> 
> 
> 
> Ron Oglesby
> Senior Technical Architect
>  
> RapidApp
> Office 312.372.7188
> Mobile 815.325.7618
> email roglesby@xxxxxxxxxxxx
>  
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Craig M. Luchtefeld [mailto:craig@xxxxxxxxxxxx] 
> Sent: Friday, September 05, 2003 7:56 AM
> To: thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [THIN] Novell Integration
> 
> Does anyone have any thoughts about which Novell integration route is
> better
> -- the ZENWorks/Dynamic Local User route or the simultaneous Windows
> 2000
> domain route with dual accounts?
> 
> I've got a school I'm working with, approximately 1500 students with
the
> environment holding anywhere from 150-200 concurrent sessions.  We're
> still
> in the 'testing' phase, so we can still go either route for
deployment.
> My
> problem with the Windows 2000/Novell route is that they're going to
have
> to
> create two accounts for every student, we're going to have to
sync/reset
> all
> their passwords, and they're going to have one more point of failure
(if
> the
> DC goes down).
> 
> Honestly, I need to read up a bit more on how the ZENWorks deal works,
> but
> if its creating a dynamic local user, my thought is how are roaming
> profiles
> going to work?
> 
> Anyway, has anyone had the opportunity to take a look at both of these
> pieces and examine the advantages/disadvantages to both?  From the
> Advanced
> Guide for FR3, I saw the integration steps for them both, but if I
> remember
> correctly, it didn't state advantages/disadvantages to either.
> 
> Thanks in advance,
> 
> Craig
> 
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