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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
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    Possiblity to migrate/move volume on NSS32 to NSS64

    Work in background without to off-line volume/pool

    Comments (6) | by: Markus E. | over a year ago | Last activity over a year ago | Status changed over a year ago | NSS
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    Make cluster ressource IP addresses persistent as they were in Netware

    Currently, whenever someone makes a simple change in Yast that makes Yast believe (vs. it really being necessary) it needs to restart the network support, all secondary ...

    Comments (2) | by: Massimo R. | over a year ago | Last activity over a year ago | Status changed over a year ago | Cluster Services (NCS)
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    CIS Inventory custom list of file types

    Currently CIS has a handful of general groups Photos, Videos, Documents and other. Requesting option to add other file times with their own categories such as ...

    Comments (0) | by: Rodney W. | over a year ago | Last activity over a year ago | Status changed over a year ago | Other
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    NSS Metadata and Data Checksum/ECC

    Many competing filesystems have added checksum support to either metadata or data itself over the past few years. This is something that is worth adding especially with ...

    Comments (0) | by: Rodney W. | over a year ago | Last activity over a year ago | Status changed over a year ago | NSS
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    new Feature like Branchcache into NCP

    direct WAN Support is getting more important, so work together online on a file system. So an optimisation protokoll like "branchcache" or iFolder would be a great ...

    Comments (0) | by: Bodo S. | over a year ago | Last activity over a year ago | Status changed over a year ago | NCP