Upgrading Netstorage; About Netstorage - Novell OPEN ENTERPRISE SERVER 2.0 SP2 - UPGRADING TO OES-PLANNING AND IMPLEMENTATION GUIDE 12-2009 Implementation Manual

5.6 Upgrading NetStorage

Section 5.6.1, "About NetStorage," on page 73
Section 5.6.2, "Platform Differences in NetStorage File Services," on page 74
Section 5.6.3, "NetStorage Is Not Transferred," on page 75

5.6.1 About NetStorage

NetStorage provides secure Web access to files and folders on your OES and NetWare servers. It is
a bridge between a company's protected Novell storage network and the Internet. Using a Web
browser, your eDirectory users can securely copy, move, rename, delete, read, write, recover, and set
trustee assignments for their files from any Internet-attached workstation, anywhere in the world,
with nothing to download or install on the workstation.
NetStorage on OES provides local and Web access to files on many systems without requiring the
Novell Client (see Figure
How NetStorage Works on OES 2 SP2
Figure 5-5
Access Methods Authentication
Windows
Explorer
WebDAV
Browser
HTTP
PDA
HTTP
eDirectory/LDAP
(OES server)
The following table explains the information illustrated in
5-5).
NetStorage Server
NetStorage
on
OES 2 Linux
Target Servers
CIFS share
(NFAP)
CIFS share
CIFS
Windows
SSH
servers
NCP
to manage
Linux
traditional
volume
NSS
volume
NetWare
Traditional
volume
NCP
volume
Figure 5-5.
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