3 Oct
2011
3 Oct
'11
9:54 p.m.
I still have the network layouts... we did a Novell to Vax NFS
install.... I remember it well now, it was a Novell NFS gateway
install and we installed Vax NFS onto two of their Vaxes, one was local
at the Mt. Olive location and the other was done in Chicago...
Later on at other customer sites we did a lot of installs with Leverage
Host which made a Vax look like a Novell 3.12 server, that was a great
piece of software, you would set it up on the Vax, then you'd install
Netware to it from a IPX connected PC and once the Netware was installed
you'd have a Vax that PC workstations would'nt know any different from a
Novell server, you could even rconsole onto it to configure NLM's and such.
Man I miss doing Netware work!!!
Dave McGuire wrote:
On 10/03/2011 09:49 PM, Curt @ Atari Museum wrote:
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 you have some sort of IPX-based communication going on with the
VAXen?
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.
Neat!
I had a bunch of IPX to Localtalk bridge cards at
one time, I wish I'd
kept them :-(
Oh, they'd make for some fun on a rainy Sunday afternoon. :)
-Dave