This book contains information about practical issues and uses a practical approach to solve and prevent problems that administrators can come across in their NetWare environment. The author did not intend to create a book with all the background information that exists on the NetWare Operating System. Instead, he has described how to work with the tools and how to implement the tips in a new or existing NetWare environment. When necessary, he explains the technical concepts to help the reader understand what happens while implementing a specific tip.
The tips & tricks in this book work on recent versions of NetWare. Some tips may even work on NetWare 3, 4 and 5. The author has focused primarily on NetWare 6 and 6.5 for his research and has also tested many tips on the NetWare version of Open Enterprise Server.
Some of the tips covered in this book:
- Building a test environment quickly & easily; iPrint auditing;
- Recovering from a forgotten Admin password; NSS mirroring via iSCSI;
- Securing your LDAP environment; Using the Internal Debugger;
- eDirectory Caching & Indexing; Finding & recovering hidden eDirectory objects;
- Working with the NetWare Registry; & more.