Novell to Windows Share question

[LeeCRCNA]

Hi,
At our company, our head office uses Novell (6.5 I believe), for setting up shared drives and the like.

Our office is all Microsoft, we run active directory.

So, this week I established a gateway-gateway VPN between our offices. I installed the Novell client on one of our servers here, and have successfully logged in and have access to all the network drives in their office I need.

My goal here, was to re-share these as Windows shares and use active directory to control who in the office can access them. This will allow us to have access to their files without having to install Novell on all our client computers.

Anyway, I don't see a way to re-share these novell shares (or whatever terminology Novell uses for them, I'm not a novell expert). Can anyone give me any ideas here?

I've been told I can also setup the shares to look like Windows shares on the server in the other office, which I'll do as a last resort if I can't get it working this way.

Thanks for your help.

 

[marvhuffaker]

There is a Gateway Service for Novell that you can setup on the Windows server, but it's a terrible service and Microsoft wrote it that way to make Novell look bad. It's not very secure either, and personally I would never allow it in my network. It has huge security implications. I believe it's one of the options in add/remove programs but I'm not sure.

What I would recommend instead is have your Novell admins configure CIFS on the NetWare server. It emulates Windows authentication and allows users to connect without a Novell client. In default mode it requires that users have accounts on the NDS tree. But there is an AD mode that allows them to authenticate with their Microsoft credentials against your AD domain. It just has to be setup.





Marvin Huffaker, MCNE

http://www.redjuju.com

 

[terry712]

cifs is the way i would go
it's so simple to setup and works really well

 

[LeeCRCNA]

Thanks for the info guys.
I had looked at the Microsoft netware client, but it only runs over IPX, which I don't want to run over the VPN.

I'll look into setting up CIFS.

 

[terry712]

ms microsoft client is a security violation anyway
it's a piece of total sh**
i think microsft include it purely to keep ipx alive