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by debisse

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Hello,
imagine you have a mixed environment with Netware 3 and 4 Servers and NT 4 Servers.
Is it possible to make synchronisation between the NW and NT userpasswords, and if yes how. It would be good to fin a solution where the user changes the password at single point and all the stuff like password expiring date, synchronization, forcing logon to change password and so on will be updated in NT and NW environment. We don't want to use NDS with Single signon, becaus NT will be updated to W2000 soon.
The next question is to establish also synchronization between NT, NW, SAP and Host.

Thanks for all ideas

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by dj61

Once you upgrade NT to Windows 2000, You will be able to use Active Directory to accomplish this.

by dc1

You can install the Gateway service for Netware on your NT servers. This will allow you to do password synch, etc.

by debisse

Could you give me a little bit more informations. If I install the Gateway service is it possible to syncronize all the stuff I asked for. At NT we have the password expires after 60 days, the novell servers have different expiration values. So if the user decides to change the password at NT today, because the PW will expires in 6 days what happens with the novell Pw's that will expires for example in 10 or 20 days?
I've found a Technet article about the Gateway service, but before implementing in our environment, it will be helpful to have some experiences from the life
Thanks for more help

by schitzoid

when you from an NT workstation to change password, it automatically prompt you if you like to change your NW password if you're running MS client service for netware (which you have to be to acces you NW resources if you not runningthe novell client) then it prompts you to change your legacy NW password at a command line from your SYS directory. if your clients are 9X, sorry, I don't remember because I don't use it much.

by debisse

thats not my problem
"changes the password at single point and all the stuff like password expiring date, synchronization, forcing logon to change password and so on will be updated in NT and NW environment. "

by graemeda

Had the same issue last year - created a web page on out intranet and using ADSI + WSH was able to do what you need. We sync'd between 2 NT domains and Netware 4.

It is reasonably easy to accomplish - no client installs required as all code runs from the web server (assuming an IIS box) and also asuming IPX is a running protocol. But if not client side scripting isn't difficult to get same result

by debisse

Thanks but did not help.
Im looking for a established third party software or tools ready to use

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