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April 2013 Scheduled Maintenance

Published May 6, 2013 | By admin

April2013 Scheduled Maintenance has been released

How to apply the patch with zypperList repositories
zypper lr
Should see the following:
nu_novell_com:OES11-SP1-Updates | OES11-SP1-Updates | Yes | Yes

List patches in the Updates repository
zypper pch OES11-SP1-Updates
Should see the following:
OES11-SP1-Updates | oes11sp1-April-2013-Scheduled-Maintenance | 7421 | security | Needed

Install the maintenance patch
zypper up -t patch oes11sp1-April-2013-Scheduled-Maintenance

Then list the patches… Continue reading →

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January 2013 Scheduled Maintenance for OES2SP3

Published January 31, 2013 | By admin

January 2013 Maintenance patch for OES2P3 has been released

Key DSfW specific bugs fixed with this maintenance patch

  • 787330: Can’t install ADC to DSfW domain that is updated to Sept 2012 patch level
  • 790828: DSfW Assign rights fails in XAD\_RETAIN\_POLICIES=no case and if there are containers with nspm… attr set
  • 792131: DSFW – behavior for isdeleted attribute doesn’t match with… Continue reading →
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November 2012 Scheduled Maintenance for OES2SP3

Published December 12, 2012 | By admin

November 2012 Maintenance patch for OES2P3 has been released

Key DSfW specific bugs fixed with this maintenance patch

  • 736416: DSfW – Apple OSX Compatibility: Login to DSfW without ID mapping doesn’t work
  • 739450: DSfW: W32Time auth provider for ntp does not work in a cross partition setup
  • 768113: DSFW: xadsd crashes in dcerpc libprot\_ncacn.so library
  • 769945: Assignment of users of… Continue reading →
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Diagnostic tool for DNS Records

Published October 24, 2012 | By admin

The DSfW team has a great tool called check-dns.pl to help diagnose DNS issue with DSfW.

The tool validates essential records for forward and reverse lookups.  This tool can be found at Novell Coolsolutions.

The tool might incorrectly report PDC and DC records if there is more than one Domain Controller.  The Coolsolutions article will be updated with a… Continue reading →

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September 2012 Maintenance for OES2SP3 is released

Published October 8, 2012 | By admin

September 2012 Maintenance patch for OES2P3 has been released

Key DSfW specific bugs fixed with this maintenance patch

  • - 667829: On Win2K8 R2 client joined to DSfW domain fails to create xen Desktop image from xendesktop studio
  • - 723878: Normal Domain Users have all filesystem rights to new GPOs with Oes2Sp3
  • -736413: DSfW – Apple OSX Compatibility: memberOf query returns… Continue reading →
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Updated dsfw_processchk script 2.1.5

Published September 24, 2012 | By admin

I updated the dsfw_processchk script to not only check all essential DSfW processes, but to handle multiple pids for the xadsd process.  The script is great to use if you are worried that a DSfW process will stop and you don’t want to receive several phone calls alerting you to the problem or the DSfW server has been unstable you… Continue reading →

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VMWare and best practices for Timekeeping

Published September 7, 2012 | By admin

Lately I’ve been getting a lot of requests for timekeeping best practices for VMWare

VMWare has a great support article on this.  Below are the SLES recommendations.  The article can be found here

 

SLES 11 (All updates) No additional kernel parameters required.
SLES 10 SP4 on ESX 5.0 and later clock=pmtmr
hpet=disable
SLES 10 SP4 on ESX 4.x Use… Continue reading →
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Script to check if ports are listening

Published September 3, 2012 | By admin

If you are concerned about a DSfW service going down and or the port is not accessible, this script will help keep the services up or notify you of a service going down.  The script will check if each DSfW service is listening, then telnet to each port.  If it can not telnet, the script will log which port is not accessable… Continue reading →

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Script to check DSfW Processes

Published August 14, 2012 | By admin

I have a updated script to check all essential DSfW processes.  The name of the script is dsfw_processchk.  The script is great to use if you are worried that a DSfW process will stop and you don’t want to receive several phone calls alerting you to the problem or the DSfW server has been unstable you you need to… Continue reading →

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July 2012 Maintenance for OES2SP3 has been released

Published August 8, 2012 | By admin

The July 2012 Maintenance Patch for oes2 sp3 has been release
The 64 bit version can be found here
The 32 bit version can be found here

List of bug fixes in the July 2012 Maintenance for OES2SP3

  • 142091: Inconsistency with naming in the GUI
  • 142183: Secrets added to Gnome Keyring through CASAManager have a default key/value pair of GKPassword/novell… Continue reading →
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July 2012 Maintenance for OES2SP3 eDirectory 8.8 SP6 patch 6 released

Published August 8, 2012 | By admin

The July 2012 Maintenance Patch for eDirectory 8.8 SP6 has been release
The 64 bit version can be found here
The 32 bit version can be found here

List of bug fixes in the July 2012 Maintenance for OES2SP3 for eDirectory patch 6

  • - 679767: NMAS Client aborts NCP connection and returns error -625 immediately upon having sent NMAS Start… Continue reading →
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How to find all DNS Locator objects

Published August 6, 2012 | By admin

When installing DSfW into an environment were Novell DNS is already in use, be sure to use the existing DNS Locator object.  It will simplify management for the all the zones and DNS servers.  The locator object is used by the DNS/DHCP Console to return all zones and DNS servers the locator object knows about.  If there are multiple locator… Continue reading →

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June 2012 OES2SP3 Hot Patch for NCP and FTP 8170

Published June 20, 2012 | By admin

TID 5144804 (32 bit) and 5144805 (64 bit)

Files Included

ovell-libncputil-1.0.1-0.9.x86_64.rpm 12.4 KB (12788)
novell-libncputil-32bit-1.0.1-0.9.x86_64.rpm 12.5 KB (12825)
novell-ncpenc-5.1.5-0.65.x86_64.rpm 581.9 KB (595918)
novell-ncpns-5.3-0.20.x86_64.rpm 51.3 KB (52589)
novell-ncpserv-2.0.3-0.38.x86_64.rpm 847.5 KB (867866)
novell-ncpserv-nrm-2.0.3-0.25.i586.rpm 341.1 KB (349309)
novell-ncpserv-tools-2.0.3-0.38.x86_64.rpm 182.6 KB (187033)
novell-pure-ftpd-config-1.1.0-0.12.x86_64.rpm 7.4 KB (7647)

June 2012 OES2SP3 Hot Patch for NCP and FTP

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OES2 SP3 March 2012 Maintenance Patch released

Published March 28, 2012 | By admin

March 2012 Scheduled Maintenance for OES2 SP3

TID 5137450

Here are a list of bug fixes in the patch

  • - 520981: Disable Login does not work if the source server is OES Linux
  • - 612452: Restore of NSS metadata fails via xattr when there are no local replica on the server
  • - 637743: NCPCON NSS VERIFY shows trustee differences after… Continue reading →
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How to Install an ADC DSfW server

Published February 1, 2012 | By admin

This is the follow up to the “Prepare for an ADC Install of DSfW” video.
In this video an OES2SP3 ADC DSfW server is installed into an existing domain.
Requirements and suggestions are made along the way.

Be sure to follow TID 7009927 and TID 3564075 before doing the install.

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Prepare to install an ADC DSfW server

Published December 24, 2011 | By admin

This video will go through the preparation of installing an ADC DSfW server.  It will guide you through TID 7009927.

 

 

 

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Prepare and Install Novell’s Domain Services for Windows

Published October 30, 2011 | By admin

TID 7002172 provides steps to follow to ensure a successful install.

Start with a clean install, eDirectory can not be installed on the server prior to installing DSfW.
Be sure the /etc/hosts has the server name and domain name you want for the name of your domain.
List the DSfW server as the first DNS server in the /etc/resolv.conf
If you removed DSfW… Continue reading →
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