[rescue] Novell Netware

[Doug McIntyre]

On Tue, Sep 03, 2019 at 11:52:19AM +0200, Liam Proven wrote:
> Naah. NW4 was 1993 IIRC. NW3 was around by the late 1980s.

I didn't know many companies who even considered going to NW4 and NDS.
NW3 was good for everybody in my circle, and they kept on it for a
long time until NT mostly took over.

> Unfortunately for Novell, NDS took planning, forethought and some
> skill. NT domains didn't and were fine for small, single-site,
> multi-server networks.
> ...

My pet theory is that NT got its foothold in because it didn't enforce
its' licensing. On _every_ Netware network I was on, it was underlicensed.
People being kicked off because they didn't have the license was de rigeour.

This was true of most "workgroup" solutions at the time, the unix
systems that were competing in this area also enforced their licensing
on number of client seats, and fell by the wayside because they
enforced their licensing.

OOTH, every NT network I was on was underlicensed, but it was unenforced.

NT also let an "admin" click around a bunch, and eventually something
came out that let people work somewhat. It wasn't setup "right", but
it did something. I can't count the number of times I sat down and 
go WTF is a network bridging interface setup for? Or everything under the
sun installed, half setup, and competing for resources.

As you said, on Netware (and on Unix solutions), it took training, and
knowledge to set them up to work correctly. Nobody knew what a
directory was. It was very foreign to any admin.