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by marence 2 views

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We're running a Novell Netware 5 network, with an NT Exchange box for email and Oracle databases. Because I'm the only person in the department that works with Macs, I've been put in charge of getting our 2 new G4s on the network of 300 PCs.
Let mestate now that altough I know a little about networking in general (Network+ level), I'm not a network admin. My boss thinks putting SoftWindows 98 on the Macs, then running Netware Client 3.3 (just like we do with the Windows PC) will work.
Can I get some input? (and please, no "just get rid of the Macs" comments. They're our Graphics department, and if we got rid of the Macs, we'd have no Graphics department left...)

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by barryvg

It has been some time since I worked on a Novell network (3.12), however, we used the Appletalk which loaded during the boot of the Novell server. Your network administrator should be able to figure this out. We had a Mac network of eight systems tied to a Novell network of 45 systems, all using Novell for storage and file/print sharing. It worked well, just took a bit for this PC guy to figure out. I don't work with Macs now and much of that networking info has gone by the wayside, but youshould be able to link with AppleTalk.

by russell cohen

I've also not had any hands-on experience with Mac clients in a NetWare environment, but there is a Novell client available for Macs at Prosoft Engineering's site:
http://www.prosofteng.com/netware.asp.
You might also want to have a look at at Novell's Native File Access pack for NetWare 5.x, which would allow Mac Users to access files on a NetWare 5.x server without any client software.

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