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
LinuxWorldExpo 2008 - Countdown…
Still 16 days until LinuxWorldExpo in Brussels.
If you are interested to provide a few helping hands during the expo drop us an email at linuxworld at elug dot be
March 3rd, 2008 - Posted in linux | | 0 Comments
