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Novell Client 4.8 for Win 2000?

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by mmbarreca

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Does anyone know of a better way to obtain a copy of Novell clients than the Novell website? We're running a Novell 4.1 network and we have 2 new Win 2000 machines that we want to add (the first new machine installs in a few years). Our current Novell cleint install disks only go up to Win NT workstations and I can't find an ENGLISH client on the Novell site.

Any ideas? Thanks!

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by mmbarreca

Thanks for the link! I had come across the same link (after finding another one which completely messed up the workstation) and we're going to try it out sometime today. Have you used this client successfully?

by tbragsda

from time to time, I see complaints posted to boards about the NWClient. I have been working with NetWare since NETX, and never have had much trouble with them.

What sort of problems are you seeing? One thing to keep in mind, for your 4.1 (<5.x) servers your will need IPX.

by mmbarreca

All of the other clients have been stable. When I originally went to the Novell site to find a client, I found the C483SP1e.exe client and downloaded that. When we ran this on the workstation, I used the custom install so that I could have IP and IPX. The install failed and when the PC was rebooted, we had a HOST of dll errors in Windows and the PC could not boot. We ended up having to reinstall Win 2000 on the workstation just to get it to boot.

I found the NC483SP1.exe that was supposed to be the updated client, downloaded it and applied it but this did not install a client. Therefore, with Win 2000 reinstalled, we reapplied the C483SP1e.exe file, which did load the Novell client, then ran the NC483SP1.exe. However, despite the client being loaded, we cannot get the workstation to recognize the tree so we cannot get it onto the network. We know that the network port and cable is good and have tried to access the network through the workstation through several methods. I cannot access the Network Properties (like on older workstations) so now I'm lost as to how to get this client to recognize the tree. There is only one tree on this network but the PC is only recognizing it's own domain. Any ideas?

by pgdkansas

The novell client should be located on the Win2k CD. Just add the novell client through Network Properties. This version of the client has always worked for me, and we just migrated from Pure Novell to Pure Microsoft environment.

Good luck...I know it's frustrating.

I'll keep thinking about it.

--Scott

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