Category Archives: Novell/SuSE

Identity Manager: AD to NDS sync fixed

I got three more emails today from staff members who were not in our Help desk software (because their accounts never made it to Active Directory from NDS), so I decided to dig a little deeper into the problem.
Looking at the DirXML console, I noticed some users were erroring out with the message: “problem 1005 [...]

Identity Manager (or not!)

This summer we installed Identity Manager on one of our NetWare boxes, and anticipated loads of extra free time from a reduced user management work

Allow for user password self-service
Sync GroupWise passwords with NDS passwords
Import staff accounts into AD from NDS

Users expect to be able to reset their own passwords with a challenge-response system. So [...]

Novell Open Audio Podcasts

Novell has just announced Novell Open Audio - a series of podcasts hosted by ‘Reverend’ Ted Haeger, who spearheads Novell’s user community. The podcasts are billed as “focusing primarily on technical level discussions with product managers, engineers and others involved in Novell’s product development.”
I’ have already listened to the first one which focuses on iFolder [...]

Zenworks 7 Imaging

From evilzenscientist’s blog:
“evilzenscientist :: thoughts � ZENworks 7 imaging: “ZENworks OS imaging has always been based on the Linux kernel - it’s fast, efficient, has a great networking stack and is also extensible. None of the problems of DOS and getting NDIS drivers etc.
Earlier versions of ZENworks - (ZfD 3.x, ZfD 4.0, ZENworks 6, ZENworks [...]

Zenworks Imaging boot cds

I’ve been having fits getting zenworks imaging to work with Dell Optiplex GX280s and GX510s. I finally came up with a solution that works 100% of the time.
Set the SATA drive to compatibility mode in BIOS, and use the BCM57_v753 boot disk. This is the only version that seems to work with the SATA drives [...]