NetWare-Novice needs general help in finding resources

[pixiepoet]

My Original Thread said I was looking for a NetWare Book for Dummies. I had to restate my subject line because people might think that I'm looking for a specific book in the "______ (Book) for Dummies" series! My apologies!

I was a regular lowly Windows-based help-desk person for YEARS until my friend got me a job as a Novell Network Administrator of a small 8 person Company using Netware 6 server (Win 98/XP Workstations). I am totally clueless about Novell and it's tech jargon and the book Novell's Guide to NetWare 6 Networks might as well be GREEK because I don't understand one bit of it! The server seems stable but if anything goes wrong, I am in big trouble! Can anyone recommend a book or a website or something (cheap) that explains Novell NetWare in baby-talk so I don't get fired? PLEASE HELP!!!!!

 

[Chewie71]

Best place to start that's free is probably Novell's website. And it's probably easier to read than those big 1500 page Novell Press books,

http://www.novell.com/products/netware

click on "support & training" then documentation. Or go directly to this link

http://www.novell.com/documentation/lg/nw6p/index.html.

In a such a small single server environment it's pretty simple. Keep NDS/EDirectory healthy (checkout docs for DSREPAIR but be careful), know how to apply service packs, and that's about it. If you want to get fancy, you can offer your users iPrint and iFolder so they can print or access their files from anywhere on the Internet.

Use NDPS for printing...get rid of queues if they still have any. Dump IPX and go TCP/IP only. If they aren't using any Bindery stuff you can remove the Bindery Context too.

I'd suggest installing a test NW6 server(not on the live network) and a test Tree and play with all this stuff before you do it on the production server. It's no fun when you bring the whole network down and don't know how to bring it back up again.

Have Fun!!
Matt
"NetWare RULEZ!"

 

[Beaghler]

Add to that: be sure to do faithful backups and test them once in a while.