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A couple of weeks ago I asked what experiences others had with Portable
NetWare, particularily on a Hewlett Packard HP9000 platform.  I did receive
a couple of responses and have one response pending (via telephone).  I
have edited and excerpeted the following responses and take responsibility
for that.

I am still interested in hearing what others have to say about this, feel
free to e-mail (mike@sherlock.med.ge.com) me.  If there is sufficient
activity I will re-post a summary otherwise I'll e-mail a updated summary.

We are planning to get and test a version of Portable NetWare early in 1992
(assuming funding stays in place).  The demo copy, I'm told is US$ 300.00
for a one month demo.  We already have much of the needed software in place
to telnet between the PCs and the UNIX host and key features for us are the
freeing up of one high-end PC for compute work, the elimination of some
disc I/O server problems (so the Novell administrator tells me) and unified
backup services.  We do expect to maintain two separate administrators for
the systems but to merge the responsibilities somewhat.

Responses:
 1) One respondant had installed an demo copy (16 user liscense) on an
    HP 9000/855 and had one weeks experience as of December 11. They
    stated it looked and felt like a real server with no
    incompatibilities, so far.  Printing is, by default, done as root
    on the HP-UX system but is limited to 10 printers (this may be
    temporary). Portable NetWare doesn't work over NFS mount points.
    This site has tried using (one) joint username and NetWare does
    properly handle that. Some odd filename mapping from UNIX to DOS
    when using soft links when the filenames are too long for DOS.

 2) If you are running V3.11, and your UNIX host has TCP/IP, you can
    get free packages to allow people to telnet into your UNIX host.

    For print spooling you can get charon v20...this program requires
    a dedicated PC, but will allow you to print from UNIX to any
    novell queue, and any novell queue to any UNIX printer .....
    assuming you are running LPD on your UNIX host. Charon v20 is
    free, and can be FTPed from risc.ua.edu in directory
    pub/network/pegasus.

 3) Have you considered NFS for NetWare ? I think it would solve all
    the above problems. The NetWare server is an extension of the UNIX
    box. Plus lpd for print jobs. $3700 street price. 

I would like to thank Rob Thirlby, James Ford and Alan Strassberg for
thier responses and apologies to Marc Rassbach (your phone number has
a recording on it, no way to leave a message) for being unable to
contact you and thus include your inputs above.


1 - Rob Thirlby       R.Thirlby@loughborough.ac.uk
2 - James Ford        jford@ua1vm.ua.edu, jford@risc.ua.edu
3 - Alan Strassberg   alan@oetl1.scf.lmsc.lockheed.com

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