Novell OPEN ENTERPRISE SERVER 2.0 SP2 - UPGRADING TO OES-PLANNING AND IMPLEMENTATION GUIDE 12-2009 Implementation Manual page 18

Service
CIFS (Windows File
Services)
Clustering
DFS (Novell Distributed
File Services)
DHCP
18 OES 2 SP2: Upgrading to OES—Planning and Implementation Guide
NetWare 6.5 SP8 OES 2
Yes - NFAP Yes - Novell
CIFS
and
Novell Samba
Yes Yes
Yes Yes
Yes Yes
Platform Differences / Migration Issues
Both NFAP and Novell CIFS are Novell
proprietary and tightly integrated with
eDirectory and Novell Storage Services
(NSS).
Samba is an open source product
®
distributed with SUSE Linux Enterprise
Server (SLES).
Novell Samba is enhanced by Novell with
configuration settings for eDirectory LDAP
authentication via Linux User Management
(LUM). Novell Samba is not tightly
integrated with NSS on Linux and works
with any of the "File Systems Available on
OES 2 Servers." (See the
Planning and Implementation
"Product Features" in the OES 2 SP2:
Novell Cluster Services 1.8.7 for Linux
Administration Guide.
"Product Features" in the NW6.5 SP8:
Novell Cluster Services 1.8.5 Administration
Guide.
In combination with NCP Server, DFS
supports junctions and junction targets for
NSS volumes on Linux and NetWare. DFS
also supports junction targets for NCP
volumes on non-NSS file systems such as
Reiser and Ext3. The VLDB command
offers additional options to manage entries
in the VLDB for NCP volumes.
For a comparison between what is available
on OES 2 and NetWare, see
Differences Between NetWare and OES
in the OES 2 SP2: Planning and
Implementation Guide.
To plan your DHCP implementations, see
"Planning a DHCP Strategy" in the
SP2: Novell DNS/DHCP Administration
Guide for Linux and "Planning a DHCP
Strategy" in the NW 6.5 SP8: Novell DNS/
DHCP Services Administration
OES 2 SP2:
Guide.)
"DHCP
2"
OES 2
Guide.