[KLUG Members] Novell OES

[Adam Tauno Williams]

> Has anybody messed with Novell Open Enterprise Server yet?  

I had trial disks, but for whatever reason they wouldn't install.  But
not having much free time I didn't fight very heard.

> I just 
> finished downloading the 5 CD set, and am preparing to try it out.  

Would be a good presentation topic!

> I'm 
> mostly interested in how well it supports different OS clients, whether 
> it will allow once set of credentials across OS's, and whether I can 
> upgrade from SuSE 9.2 pro without blowing away the whole installation.

Honestly, I haven't met an OS client I can't support from SuSE 9.2 Pro.

> In other (sort of) related news, I have successfully gotten Windows XP 
> to authenticate against PAM using a little program called pGINA.  Also 
> supports LDAP, RADIUS, and a few other things I've never heard of.

Another good presentation topic!

Does it automatically create a local user account?

We tried this before making a Samba PDC (back in the NT4 days) with what
was probably pGINA's grand-mother.  It worked by doing things like
setting file permissions via the file/properties/security tab and some
other things didn't work.
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