• Windows 11 24H2 and DSfW

    Recently customer tried setup of Windows 11 24H2 in their DSfW domain. Everything except machine group policy works. I tried the same in our environment with DSfW and I have same behaviour. I can join Win 11 24H2 to domain, Test-ComputerSecureChannel…
  • OES 2023 DSfW accessing Microsoft 365 without and Active Directory Domain

    So, I've been fighting an issue over the past few days. I recently got back into OES/NetWare support and have been trying to get up to speed on everything. I recently setup a DSfW server name mapped to domain.int. I can login with the DSfW credentials…
  • In-place upgrade to OES 2023 of DSfW servers with ReiserFS

    Maybe somebody will find it useful. We have DSfW servers with loong history. So long, that they were set up with ReiserFS for root partition in good old times when it was a preferred file system. With OES2023 it is no longer supported. This servers…
  • DSfW installation Name Mapped vs Non-Name Mapped

    I been away from NDS/eDir for a while and have a few challenges I hope to get some light shed upon. I looking at deploying a DSfW server in my environment and I'm not clear on the difference between Name and non-Name mappings. From what I have read…
  • Face recognition to access Windows 10 workstations?

    Is anybody using face recognition to access Windows 10 workstations? We are using DSfW and all users have a domain account. We have a couple of workstations that are used by three or four employees throughout the day, mostly to send internal email.…
  • DSfW: Join workstation to domain via command line?

    I've just finished provisioning new Windows 10 workstations. My last step is to join them to my DSfW domain. I was hoping to automate this process and chose PowerShell to do it. Everything I tried resulted in an error. Finally I opened a case with Micro…
  • DSFW: Roaming Profile & Desktop Redirection Best Practices?

    Having a challenge setting up Roaming Profile & Desktop Redirection for our OES2018 SP3 DSFW setup (windows 10 clients to OES server). Specifically, 1) the order of the steps involved in creating the user folder in NSS volume 2) assigning proper rights…
  • DSfW: wbinfo issue

    Hi everyone, There is a problem with DSfW (OES2018SP2): wbinfo -u giving no output at all. At the same time: - xadcntrl validate: no problem, all services are up and running - DNS tests: all are fine - ldapsearch tests: almost all are fine except…
  • dsfw sysvol acl's

    Hello, I have a DSFW (OES2018SP2) server with the wrong sysvol ACL's. When I try the script in https://support.microfocus.com/kb/doc.php?id=7009748&sliceId=1 I get the following error: failed to call wbcLookupName: WBC_ERR_DOMAIN_NOT_FOUND Could not lookup…
  • Migration Tool log issue

    Hi All I try to migrate OES2 SP3 which include NSS and ifolder(it was be placed on NSS volume) to OES11 Sp1, and adding file system service and configure it. when I perform "Start" button or "sync", it show some error when sync file....the log like below…
  • New OES in tree or migrate existing NW server?

    Hi all Need your help in planing my OES scenario for DSFW. Actual situation: Totally 2 Netware Servers, 110 User, all with Netware Client, 120 User Netware license, but out of maintenance since years. 1 Netware 6.5 SP4a server physically who act as File…
  • apache2 could not bind to address 0.0.0.0:631

    Hi, I was wondering if any of you guys have experience this. I installed SLES 10 SP2 / OES 2 SP 2 and select DSfW. After the installation, apache2 failed to start. Encounter error" apache2 could not bind to address 0.0.0.0:631" There seem to be conflict…