It’s always sad to note the passing of an era, but that’s what we need to do this week as Novell has finally announced its “end of life” plans for NetWare 4. On March 1, 2004, NetWare 4.2 – the last ...

Novell says NetWare file servers power more than 4 million networks worldwide – many in smaller businesses that count on NetWare’s reliability to compensate for limited IT support. But as NetWare ...

With the arrival of the third beta for NetWare 6.5, Novell is getting closer to the release of the latest version of its network operating system. NetWare has changed significantly over the last few ...

In the not-too-distant past, network operating systems (NOS) pretty much meant one thing: a Novell NetWare server for managing files and printers on a local area network. For some government agencies, ...

Major releases of operating systems such as Novell Inc.’s NetWare or Microsoft Corp.’s Windows traditionally have featured major architecture changes that challenged the ability of IT staff to adapt ...

I have a customer who is going to replace their aging Netware 4.11 server with CentOS 4 and samba. I am pretty well-versed with Samba, but I'm wondering if any fellow Arsians have taken the plunge.

But NetWare 6.5 shows that Novell can still step back from the abyss and put together best-of-breed technologies into a solid package. Installation is easier than ever. The setup routine now allows ...

NetWare 6.5, code-named Nakoma and currently in closed beta testing, offers a new Virtual Office interface that consolidates the existing iFolder and iPrint Web services with new portal and team ...

Editor’s Note: We’d like to apologize for the duplicate newsletters that many of you received last week. The problem was tracked to a technical glitch that we have been told has now been fixed — so it ...

With NetWare, Novell essentially created corporate PC networking. The years may have dulled some of this pioneer product's luster as it ceded its dominant position to Windows, Unix, and, most recently ...

We are running a Novell NetWare 3.12 server at work (blech!) and are getting random, weekly errors.<BR><BR>Error message: <BR>Abend: WildSearchDirectory bad name ...