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259 Comments
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    Provide Extended Mapping of eDirectory Attributes in Kanaka

    Kanaka provides a core set of attributes that are translated from eDirectory records. It would be nice to provide some minor faculty to optionally translate some other ...

    Comments (1) | by: Johnnie O. | over a year ago | Last activity over a year ago | Status changed over a year ago | Mac OSX
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    Map A User's eDirectory Photo Attribute to the OS X Picture Attribute

    Map A User's eDirectory Photo Attribute to the OS X Picture Attribute: OS X gives the option for a user to select a picture to represent them, and eDirectory supports ...

    Comments (0) | by: Johnnie O. | over a year ago | Last activity over a year ago | Status changed over a year ago | Mac OSX
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    Path Picker for Remote Manager NCP Settings

    Description: It is very easy for novice administrators to put in an incorrect path when creating NCP shares. The novice admins can have mistakes in capitalization (since ...

    Comments (0) | by: Johnnie O. | over a year ago | Last activity over a year ago | Status changed over a year ago | Remote Manager (NRM)
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    Extend eDirectory CLI Tools to Provide Date of Last Used Roll Forward ...

    Description: In order to fully backup eDirectory, rollforward logging must be turned on. By default, roll forward logs will continue to be created by eDirectory until ...

    Comments (1) | by: Johnnie O. | over a year ago | Last activity over a year ago | Status changed over a year ago | eDirectory
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    Means to Temporarily Turn off eDirectory Indexing

    Description: Bad eDirectory indexing can immediately spike processing power up to 100%. If an administrator is particularly bad, a complete eDirectory lock up can result ...

    Comments (0) | by: Johnnie O. | over a year ago | Last activity over a year ago | Status changed over a year ago | FTP
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    Better Profiling and Tuning Tools for eDirectory

    Description: When troubleshooting eDirectory slowness (but not outright dysfunction), it is often very difficult to diagnose the cause. Even Novell Support often has ...

    Comments (3) | by: Johnnie O. | over a year ago | Last activity over a year ago | Status changed over a year ago | eDirectory
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    Extend iManager Radius Plugins to handle groups of users

    Description: The iManager plugin for Radius attributes of eDirectory users does not currently allow for the easy mass-manipulation of multiple users. Radius Profile ...

    Comments (2) | by: Johnnie O. | over a year ago | Last activity over a year ago | Status changed over a year ago | iManager
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    Mass Control of Kerberos Attributes in iManager

    Description: iManager allows for configuration of Kerberos attributes on a per-user basis, but for Kerberos to be effectivly managed in a lage eDirectory environment, it ...

    Comments (0) | by: Johnnie O. | over a year ago | Last activity over a year ago | Status changed over a year ago | iManager
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    OS X Support for DNS/DHCP Console

    Description: The DNS/DHCP Console runs on Windows and Linux, but not officially on OS X (unofficially -- see below). As OS X clients are increasingly coming into Novell ...

    Comments (2) | by: Johnnie O. | over a year ago | Last activity over a year ago | Status changed over a year ago | Mac OSX
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    Support Standalone iManager on OS X

    Description: iManager Workstation packages exist for Windows and Linux. OS X users must use iManager from a server. iManager aims to be platform neutral, but only a ...

    Comments (0) | by: Johnnie O. | over a year ago | Last activity over a year ago | Status changed over a year ago | Mac OSX
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    Continue Development on .NET / C# LDAP Libraries

    Microsoft provides a DirectoryService class in .NET that is supposed to handle LDAP communication. While it is possible to write applications targeted at non-Microsoft ...

    Comments (1) | by: Johnnie O. | over a year ago | Last activity over a year ago | Status changed over a year ago | eDirectory
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    DNS / DHCP Management Console should be installed via MSI on Windows ...

    Currently the DNS/DHCP Console is installed on 32-bit Windows using an older setup utility and the image assets are clearly from the 1990s. On 64-bit Windows the ...

    Comments (2) | by: Johnnie O. | over a year ago | Last activity over a year ago | Status changed over a year ago | DNS
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    NSS support for nested groups

    NSS should support nested eDirectory groups

    Comments (3) | by: Gellért H. | over a year ago | Last activity over a year ago | Status changed over a year ago | NSS
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    Pathname Exceeds 255-Character Limit

    https://www.novell.com/documentation/oes11/stor_nss_lx/data/b5wurur.html Please extend this limit to lets say 65k. When migrating from other filesystems, fileservers to ...

    Comments (11) | by: Gellért H. | over a year ago | Last activity over a year ago | Status changed over a year ago | NCP
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    SNMP Monitoring for OES

    Linux has native SNMP monitoring for trivial integration to existing monitoring systems. So does Windows (although it also has its own) All OES services are an invisible ...

    Comments (0) | by: Mike A. | over a year ago | Last activity over a year ago | Status changed over a year ago | Other
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    Central management of OES servers

    We need to be able to centrally manage OES servers without additional tools. Windows has basic tools that let you administer servers. It also has GPOs to easily make ...

    Comments (1) | by: Mike A. | over a year ago | Last activity over a year ago | Status changed over a year ago | iManager
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    Replace iManager to work without Java

    iManager relies on Java. Perhaps a different design is needed, one that works without a browser or has more consistent behavior with many more browsers, and without ...

    Comments (11) | by: Bill G. | over a year ago | Last activity over a year ago | Status changed over a year ago | iManager
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    Kerberos as a working NMAS method should be supported once more

    An NMAS method for Kerberos was developed back when the OES client was Novell client32 version 4.83. Support for this: an NMAS login by referral to an external Kerberos ...

    Comments (2) | by: Tim S. | over a year ago | Last activity over a year ago | Status changed over a year ago | Novell Client
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    Put iFolder features into Filr

    We have used iFolder to backup local desktop/ laptop's My Document folder to protect against data loss. It has worked perfectly for years helping us recover a users local ...

    Comments (0) | by: John R. | over a year ago | Last activity over a year ago | Status changed over a year ago | Other
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    Generate some sort of notification when default server certificates ...

    I have had repeated experience of server default certificates expiring and the server continuing to appear to work until suddenly something stops working. This can be ...

    Comments (0) | by: Max D. | over a year ago | Last activity over a year ago | Status changed over a year ago | eDirectory