• Client for Windows - in-place upgrade from Win 10 to Windows 11

    I have customer, which is doing in-place upgrades from Win10 to Win11. It's out of discussion, that this approach is not the best. He did many of upgrades ( 10 + at least ) and only on one workstation he got troubles. NSS drives can be mapped, but are…
  • OES Servers Unicast UDP 49152-65535 Port Traffic Initiated To Windows Clients

    Running a mix of OES11 and OES 2018 eDirectory servers. We are trying to determine why we see UDP Unicast Traffic initiated from our eDirectory servers toward our Windows Clients in the range from 49152-65535. We don't see this Unicast port traffic initiated…
  • Trustees tab is not visible in NSS network folder management

    Environment: OES 2018 SP1 with NSS AD services Windows 10 Enterprise 64 bit Version :2004 Build number: 19041.388 Problem: The customer would like to use the Novell File Access Right Management product for the management of NSS trustees. When they install…
  • Port redirection

    OES2018SP2: I need to redirect a port at a secondary interface from 443 to 8443. Long time ago this was possible via /etc/sysconfig/SuSEfirewall2 -> FW_REDIRECT or a iptables line: iptables -t nat -A PREROUTING -i ethX -p tcp --dport <incomming port>…
  • IOS 13.5 Files App can connect to NSS volume but can not write to the NSS volume

    Native Files app on IOS 13.5 can connect to an OES2018sp1 server's NSS volume and I can browse the folder structure. I am unable to copy a file from the IOS device to the NSS volume, it throws a "Bad Descriptor" error message on IOS. However, I can share…
  • Using certificates from Let's Encrypt?

    Has anyone tested this? Beginning this fall, Safari will distrust any certificate with a validity of more than 13 months and chances are that others will follow suit. This is a major annoyance for us that have been using 3-year certs so I am contemplating…
  • Openslp 2.0 in OES2018SP1 broken?

    Hi. We're seeing severe issues with services coming and going in SLP since the update to OES2018SP1. I'm doing traces, and think I have found the issue. 1. SLP SAs are occasionally sending fragmented service registration packets over UDP, which is BAAAAAADDDDD…
  • openslp in oes2018sp1 is missing unicastfindsrvs option.

    Anybody with an idea why? I'm unable to find any documentation that, let alone why this was removed?
  • OES Client 2 SP4 IR12 with Problem on Windows Terminal Server 2016?

    Hi, after moving all desktops from fat-clients to terminal-server (Windows Terminal Server 2016) the main-application used on the desktops tend to stall from time to time when writing to the file-server (which is NOT the terminal-server. The file-server…
  • When an OES server is shutdown, users lose network login

    Hi, Running 4 OES servers (2 physical, 2 VM's with SuSE 11.4 & 12.2 and OES 15.1 & 18) ... I know it is a mixture. Physical server1 is Groupwise, physical server 2 is user Data (H:) and the two VMs are DNS/DHCP. If I restart a server quickly all is good…
  • File locks moving between wired and wireless

    Thought I would see if anyone has run into this and maybe save me some time. Laptops connected to the network with a wired dock at user's desks. When the users leave their desk with their laptop to go to a conference room, the laptop switches over to…
  • Free OES videos from Micro Focus Support & Training (and others)

    Did you know? Sometimes a short video can explain things better than a long discussion... These resources have been readily available but I suspect many OES users still are unaware. Take a look and tell us what you think. Do you have a favorite? Free…
  • slp DA not showing itself (?) in OES

    OES 11 SP2 (yeah I know) 3 servers in the tree. Server1 = 10.10.1.10 Server2 = 10.10.1.11 Server3 = 10.10.1.13 Server1 and Server3 are both openslpDA servers (Server1 is a DS Master, Server2 and Server3 have RW replicas of everything) Server1 slp.conf…
  • set size of named.run log file

    Hello, after enabling query logging using rndc I have noticed that the resulting named.run log file seems to be limit to approx. 20000000 bytes and rolls over one time. Because of the amount of queries this file size does not provide enough history in…
  • NCP over IPv6 - is it really supported on OES 2018 SP1

    Hi, is IPv6 really supported for NCP? In nds.conf I have these values: (IPv6 prefixes are masked for privacy) n4u.server.interfaces=172.28.0.10@524,[aaaa:bbbb:7a00:a::a]@524 http.server.interfaces=172.28.0.10@8028,[aaaa:bbbb:7a00:a::a]@8028 https.server…
  • OES 2018 server NTP not in sync.

    To whom it may concern I have 5 OES 2018 servers that sync. to the 1 NTP server which is configured to use 2 IP addresses one for local and for public. If run the ndsrepair -T sync. command, the time in sync. shows No for one OES 2018 server.All other…
  • Cannot open port

    I hope I'm posting in the correct forum. This server is SLES11.4 with OES2015. I am trying to add it in to our Barracuda Backup schedule. I am having trouble with the bbagent. I have discovered that the port 5120 is closed. All communication is internal…
  • OES2018: Domainname is missing

    Hi, at a OES2018 box in 'yast lan' the domainname is set. But after leave the YaST the domainname is not available via 'hostname -d. But a 'cat /etc/HOSTNAME' give back the FQDN. Any hints to correct this are welcome. Bernd
  • Simple reporting tool to get user rights on a OES 11 VOL1

    I am looking for a way to get a report on who has what rights on our OES 11 file server. Is there a simple command or tool out there to get the report or will I have to look at implementing File Reporter?
  • Forward queries for specific domain to non novell dns server

    Hi, We have two OES2015SP1 server which are used for Novell DNS with DNS/DHCP console (novell-named). They host primary zones for ourcompany.com and our clients connect to it. An external party has setup a dns server for sub.our.company.com and want to…
  • Install samba 4 to OES 11

    Hello, is there samba4 repository compatible for Open Enterprise Server 11? Or how to install Samba 4? Thanks for the anwers
  • OES 2018 OpenSLP DA

    Over the last week, I upgraded most of my OES 2015 SP1 servers to OES 2018 without any real problems. This evening, I had a chance to upgrade another server to OES 2018, but after doing so, I found that none of my workstations could find their eDirectory…
  • Changing entire network IP address scheme

    Hi all: I have been given a task for which I have no idea how to start or accomplish. He company I work for has gone through a merger and now I have been asked to change our entire ip addressing scheme in order to one day join our network with the larger…
  • Changing DNS servers - restart network stack?

    Dumb question here, but: If you go into the OES networking config (I suppose technically one could also just manually edit the /etc/resolve.conf file??) and change the DNS servers that you are pointing to, does this require a restart of the network stack…
  • NSS - mounting volume on/from remote server

    Hi, I would like to mount a NSS volume, which is currently available through NDS and OES Client from server A, locally on server B. Can that be done? Both are running OES2015SP1 - and both have NSS volumes already. I was thinking something like "mount…