multiple servers, same context, same tree

[gnorris]

I am very new to Netware! I recently purchased 4 servers on which the vendor installed Netware 5.1. The tree is named school_tree, the context is lib, and the servers are named libserver1, libserver2, libserver3, and libserver4. The school district has 4 schools and one server was placed in each of them. Each school is connected to the others by frame relay, using DHCP, private IP's and NAT at the firewall. We also have other servers, other trees, OS's, etc. (I inherited this mess last year!). My question is this:

How can I connect to each of the new servers from my office using NWAdmin? Presently, I can connect to all older servers, but only one of the new "libservers."
I am also getting a SAP error referring to the Directory Agent.

Any help would be appreciated!

Glenna Norris
Technology Director
Affton School District
St. Louis, MO

 

[gnorris]

This is an addition to my earlier post. I would like to have only one tree for the district, a context for each school, and the ability to add servers to the tree.context for any school. Can this be done with the existing situation?

Glenna Norris

 

[TheBoySmith]

Sounds like an SLP config problem, or lack of config problem.

If you are using IP to communicate all the servers will need to have slp configured. There are some good, long, TID's on support.novell.com.

I think it would be difficult to tell you how to do the setup as there is alot of config that needs doing on the servers and probibly on your firewalls to let the slp flow through. Lee Smith
Associated Network Services
Snr Systems Engineer
Lee.Smith@ANSPLC.Com

 

[jlfiller]

So right now, you have only one context (lib) and one tree (school_tree), is that right?

In my school, I have one tree (wpstree) and one org (wps), but one OU under wps for each school. Then each container has the building's server, all its users and such. I can see all the servers from my desk (my account has rights all over the place)

We have a fiber link between our schools, with a firewall at our T3 box and private IP addresses. We've been working this way for years!

Is IPX loaded on your NW5.1 servers? If you are talking to other older servers in the same buildings, then you probably can pass IPX traffic, but it may not be loaded on all (or any) of your new servers. Not a perfect solution, but workable.

If you want to talk to your NW5.1 servers by IP, you need to make sure that your routers are passing that traffic correctly too, like Lee said. It will be cleaner that way down the road, but if you are in a budget crunch, maybe you can do it later. JL Filler,Wilton Public Schools, Wilton CT