3 Oct
2011
3 Oct
'11
6:49 p.m.
Used to do a lot of Netware installs all over NJ and in NYC a lot
too... Did a great install at M&M Mars where we connected in their
existing Dec Vaxes to some new Novell 3.12 servers we installed... man
that was a lot of fun!!! Did an install once where I hooked up a
Novell Netconnect server with 4 sessions up to a Wang Mini so that they
could connect to it over their IPX/SPX network to PC's running a remote
client and they were able to replace the Wang workstations... There
was this cool hardware/software add-on we did for a printing firm, you
had 2 3.12 servers side by side with this SFT solution called an
"Octopus" and basically it kept on identical server in standby, always
mirroring the active server and if it lost its ping check to the active
server, it would go active, take over the IPX address and name and the
users would never know anything, it kept going flawless, it was pretty
neat, worked a lot better then Novells own SFT solution.
I had a bunch of IPX to Localtalk bridge cards at one time, I wish I'd
kept them :-(
Dave McGuire wrote:
On 10/03/2011 07:01 PM, Nigel Williams wrote:
Is anyone operating a working Netware LAN? or
still have the software?
I have some early releases of Netware, 2.x etc, that were given to
me by a listmember for nostalgic purposes. I installed a few dozen
Netware 2.15 LANs in NJ in the late 1980s.
-Dave