Installing the Novell Client on OpenSUSE 10.3
These are the steps and dirty hacks I used to install the Novell Client on a OpenSUSE 10.3 machine.
Remember that this is not supported by Novell. I just took the binaries that were released for SLED10.
First we start with installing the Novell Client kernel module, this is available from the OpenSUSE 10.3 standard repository
- zypper in novfs-kmp-default
Next step is to install all the actual client packages
- Grab the iso file with the rpm packages from http://download.novell.com (Select Novell Client as the product and Novell Client for SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 10 SP1 as the version)
- Once you’ve downloaded the iso file you need to mount it: mount -o loop novell-client-2.0-sle10sp1-i386.iso /mnt/loop
- Don’t use the ncl_install script (it will fail because of missing dependencies
- cd /mnt/loop
- rpm -Uvh suse/i586/novell-nmasclient-3.4.0-17.i586.rpm
- ln -s /usr/lib/libbfd-2.17.50.20070726-14.so /usr/lib/libbfd-2.16.91.0.5.so (this is in the binutils package)
- rpm –nodeps -Uvh suse/i586/novell-xtier-base-3.1.5-46.i586.rpm
- rpm -Uvh suse/i586/novell-xtier-core-3.1.5-46.i586.rpm
- rpm -Uvh suse/i586/novell-xtier-xplat-3.1.5-46.i586.rpm
- rpm -Uvh suse/i586/novell-novfsd-2.0.0-29.i586.rpm
- rpm -Uvh suse/i586/novell-novfs-2.0.0-35.i586.rpm
- rpm -Uvh suse/i586/novell-xplatlib-1.0.3-31.i586.rpm
- zypper in kdelibs3 (if these are not yet installed)
- rpm -Uvh suse/i586/novell-ui-base-2.0.0-4.i586.rpm
- rpm -Uvh suse/i586/novell-qtgui-2.0.0-9.i586.rpm
- rpm -Uvh suse/i586/novell-client-script-2.0.0-24.i586.rpm
- rpm -Uvh suse/i586/yast2-novell-client-2.0.0-14.i586.rpm
- rpm -Uvh suse/i586/novell-client-2.0.0-11.i586.rpm
I also installed the (optional) novell-nautilus-plugin-2.0.0-3.i586.rpm package which provides nautilus integration but this does not seem to work (did not try the novell-konqueror-plugin-2.0.0-3.i586.rpm package)
After you installed all the packages you can perform your initial configuration via
- yast2 novell-client
After doing this configuration it will ask you to restart your machine, if everything goes well you should have a little red N added to your tray after the reboot which will allow you to login to your Novell environment.
Again: THIS IS NOT SUPPORTED 
March 26th, 2008 - Posted in Novell, opensuse | | 0 Comments
Simple eDirectory backup
It’s so simple and can save you a lot of time…
Here is a simple script I use from time to time.
Just throw it in /etc/cron.daily and make sure it is executable
#!/bin/sh
# Simple eDirectory backup script
# See also TID 10072014
# will make sure we have a rotating backup (1,2,3…7)
SEQ=$(date +%u)
# user DN to bind to eDirectory
USER_DN=”cn=admin.o=company”
# execute the backup command
/usr/bin/ndsbackup cvf /backup/edirectory/nds-full-backup.$SEQ -a $USER_DN -p mypassword “Full Directory Backup”
March 25th, 2008 - Posted in Novell, edirectory | | 0 Comments
Brainshare 08 is over
And it was great…
- Saw a lot of interesting (technical) talks
- My presentation went good
- Met a lot of old friends
- Met a lot of experts on Thursday
- Didn’t won the ATV
- Received a lot of gifts and gadgets
- Got to see an NBA match between the Jazz and the LA Lakers (too bad the Jazz didn’t won)
- Laughed with Frank Caliendo, this guy is really funny!
Looking forward to the 09 version.
Only thing that made me angry on this trip: TSA !! with all their stupid security checks…
March 24th, 2008 - Posted in Novell | | 0 Comments
Halleluja! Thanks Novell for hearing my p2v praise!
I’ve read some very good news today: Novell is buying platespin
February 25th, 2008 - Posted in Novell, xen | | 0 Comments
Monitor IDM driver(s)
Identity manager is a very nice product which allows you to synchronize data (identities) between different systems like AD, eDirectory, Oracle, …
It’s using drivers to connect to the different systems. Data is not synced between the systems if the drivers are not running. Therefore it would be good if you could monitor the state of the drivers (with your favorite monitoring tool )
A few days ago I stumbled upon this Cool Solutions post about a nagios plugin that can be used to monitor your IDM drivers. Very useful !
February 3rd, 2008 - Posted in IDM | | 0 Comments
LTSP on SLES 10…
just works…
Follow the excellent document on http://www.novell.com/coolsolutions/feature/1639.html and you’re done!
January 4th, 2008 - Posted in Novell, SLES, linux | | 0 Comments
BrainShare session
Like Jo already mentioned earlier, i will be doing the HASI session on brainshare this year:
TUT1512 - Conquering the High Availability Storage Infrastructure
Looking forward to it!
December 27th, 2007 - Posted in Novell | | 0 Comments
Groupwise clustering on Linux
While I was cleaning up some (test) virtual machines I stumbled upon my test cluster with groupwise. Before deleting the vms I decided to backup my cluster configuration for possible future use.
It was a 2 node cluster , evms , ssh stonith device and a groupwise system (postoffice + domain)
Psst: I’m working on the 2nd article about package mgmt on sles.
December 13th, 2007 - Posted in SLES, groupwise, linux | | 0 Comments
SLES Package management demystified (part 1)
This is the first part of my series about package management on SuSE Linux Enterprise Server. Read more
December 8th, 2007 - Posted in Novell, SLES, linux, rpm | | 0 Comments
GroupwiseR summit 2007
The GroupWiseR Summit 2007 in Brugge is over. To be short: it was GREAT! I met some very interesting people, saw some cool new stuff and learned a lot of interesting things.
The keynote by Alex Evans was interesting because it showed us where Groupwise is going to in the next few years. I’m especially happy about 1 thing: the new Linux client! That new client will be shipped as part of Groupwise 8 (Codename: Bonsai) which will be shipped in the first part of 2008.
The most fun part was on Tuesday evening when we had a Troubleshooting session from Jan-Arie Snijders. He’s a support engineer at the Novell Support Center where he’s helping people with Groupwise troubles every day. He created a broken Groupwise system on a Netware machine which contained the most common troubles he encounters and than we had to find them and fix them. Great fun.
Food and Hotel were excellent. There was even a Sinterklaas party on Monday. Seems like everybody was good in 2007 because we all got a present
Special thanks to all people that made it possible (Erno, Paul, Herbi, ….)
I hope there will be a summit again in 2008!
December 5th, 2007 - Posted in Novell, groupwise | | 0 Comments
