NetWare
NetWare is a proprietary operating system from Novell for providing file systems, printers, and directory services in a computer network.
It differs from the other operating system for microcomputer, characterized in that it is not intended as an operating system of a personal computer. Even his administration can only be done over the network. For the management and use of appropriate NetWare clients are installed on the other computers on the network.
NetWare was the early / mid 1980s in addition to Unix, the only way to connect x86 -based PCs to share files through centralized directories and printers to be shared.
It offered was already a powerful rights management, which was extended from NetWare 4.0 with NDS (NetWare Directory Services, later renamed Novell Directory Services ) to a highly scalable distributed directory service. Novell NDS decoupled the later of NetWare and sells them since as eDirectory for various platforms.
NetWare sat at the beginning of one's own IPX / SPX as the network protocol, which is simpler and in terms of data throughput in local networks much more powerful than TCP / IP in the configuration. However, as with the Internet, the importance of TCP / IP grew, supported NetWare version 3 IP routing. For NetWare versions 3.x and 4.x through TCP / IP could not be accessed on the file and print services of NetWare, this only from Version 4.11 was possible. With NetWare 5 TCP / IP eventually became the standard protocol for NetWare. The general support for NetWare by Novell ended in March 2010.
NetWare Client
For communication between servers and clients ( e) is the so-called NetWare Core Protocol (NCP ). To access a server using this protocol, the PC requires a NetWare Client. With the proliferation of Windows as a PC system the SMB protocol (Server Message Block ) or its successor CIFS ( Common Internet File System) has gained importance. It is included for access to Windows server by default in all Windows operating systems.
According to the customer, the NetWare Client for DOS stands even today by its simplicity in handling. The client can, with the aid of the usual DOS memory management techniques, largely in the high memory area (HMA ) be installed and supported so minimal space in tight conventional memory.
Supports NetWare Version 3.11 or in a bundle with the gateway product protocols Network File System (NFS ) and Apple Filing Protocol ( AFP), the latest from the NetWare 5.1 Enhancement Pack also CIFS to communicate with Windows computers, Unix - derivatives or (older) Macintosh computers. Thus, no NetWare client more is usually required.
Novell Open Enterprise Server ( OES) uses either a NetWare 6.5 Support Pack 3 or from a SuSE Linux Enterprise Server 9 from Support Pack 3 operating system. Novell Open Enterprise Server 2 ( OES2 ) uses either a NetWare 6.5 Support Pack 5 or from a SuSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 from Support Pack 1 operating system. It was offered to customers a migration of their needed services. Many of the existing services running on the Linux-based faster.
Newer services and products such as Novell iFolder, mono ( now developed by Xamarin ) are developed on Linux, have been transferred to Windows and Mac OS X, but not on NetWare.
Its existing in the 1980s and 1990s, leadership in the PC -based networks has steadily lost since the 1990s NetWare.