From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jul 12 17:43:20 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id RAA27305 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 12 Jul 1996 17:43:20 -0700 (PDT) Received: from phaeton.artisoft.com (phaeton.Artisoft.COM [198.17.250.211]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id RAA27299 for ; Fri, 12 Jul 1996 17:43:16 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from terry@localhost) by phaeton.artisoft.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) id RAA02293; Fri, 12 Jul 1996 17:36:02 -0700 From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199607130036.RAA02293@phaeton.artisoft.com> Subject: Re: Novell 3.12 on FreeBSD To: jim@starshine.org (Jim Dennis) Date: Fri, 12 Jul 1996 17:36:02 -0700 (MST) Cc: bala@cst.com.au, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <199607110341.UAA00346@starshine> from "Jim Dennis" at Jul 10, 96 08:41:21 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > 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.