Subj : Re: me
To   : Ron van Stokkom
From : Darren Gibbs
Date : Mon Mar 26 2001 01:46 pm

 D>> keep writing what system are you rinning is it working well
 D>> share it with us all
 RvS> Well some question that has partly to do with Novell. In the office we
 RvS> have an old Novell 3.12 server, which is still running just because
 RvS> our financial software makes use of it. Our main server is a Linux
 RvS> system running Samba and the users connect to it via NetBios over IP.
 RvS> Can I safely move this financial software to the Linux-box? In my
 RvS> opinion it uses the server just as a file-server, however it is called
 RvS> a novell-version. No NLMs are installed for the software to run. What
 RvS> pitfalls should i be aware of?

Depends.

If the software is serialised against the existing server, you're shit out of 
luck. Some older software actually made a bindery entry recording serial number 
of the server on install - and moving it to another server is impossible 
without some pretty fancy tools.

However, if it's not serialised, you should be able to run the MARS NWE server 
on your Linux box, then do a bindfix/bindrest to transfer your existing 
binderies to the Linux emulator. Then you can copy volumes etc and away you go.

I'd be very careful with this, and make sure you have it working BEFORE you 
turn off the old server - I'm uncertain how exactly the MARS process actually 
emulates Netware - but it can't hurt to try.

 RvS> The reason for planning the move is that this novell server is
 RvS> starting to get a time-bomb hardware-wise. Further, moving everything
 RvS> to one platform would make things more manageable.

3.12 is a definite problem - however, there's no guarantee the suggested 
solution above will help - because the MARS process effectively becomes a 3.12 
server.

Give it a go anyway. It can't hurt.

DaZZa

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