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    All CIFS Settings in iManager/Remote Manager

    Would it be possible to add the settings available with the novcifs command directly into iManager/Remote Manager. This would make it easier to manage CIFS from a ...

    Comments (0) | by: Manoj B. | over a year ago | Last activity over a year ago | Status changed over a year ago | Samba/CIFS
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    Make a CIFS Share or Server Read Only at server level immediately

    It would be handy to be able to immediately prevent all writes to a CIFS share or server like what we can do with NCP using the command: ncpcon disable write ...

    Comments (0) | by: Manoj B. | over a year ago | Last activity over a year ago | Status changed over a year ago | Samba/CIFS
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    Make DFS client timeouts (cache TTL) configurable

    Currently, there's no way to configure the timeouts for a DFS (distributed file services) client's caches. Windows servers have this configurable (see ...

    Comments (0) | by: Jürgen W. | over a year ago | Last activity over a year ago | Status changed over a year ago | Samba/CIFS
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    Respect station restrictions also with CIFS

    On an OES server with CIFS enabled in local or not-AD-domain mode authentication is done basically via ldap against the local eDirectory. A user with station restrictions ...

    Comments (0) | by: Gerd B. | over a year ago | Last activity over a year ago | Status changed over a year ago | Samba/CIFS
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    Add urls to edirectory objects in imanager

    If you often have to modify for example a certain group in your edirectory tree, it would be convenient to add a bookmark to this object. If later you klick this bookmark ...

    Comments (0) | by: Peter H. | over a year ago | Last activity over a year ago | Status changed over a year ago | iManager
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    Able to make dhcp assignement static by clicking

    No big thing but should be fairly easy to do, be able to click on a assigned address in dns/dhcp manager to make static, perhaps also have choise to update dns by right ...

    Comments (2) | by: Lennart J. | over a year ago | Last activity over a year ago | Status changed over a year ago | DHCP
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    Check for password expiration on unlock

    We have users who do not reboot/log-off very often for various reasons. Since they do not reboot often but do lock their workstations, it would be helpful for the client ...

    Comments (0) | by: brad p. | over a year ago | Last activity over a year ago | Status changed over a year ago | Novell Client
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    NCS: Node Isolation Script should be tested and supported

    1. customer wants to have the same behaviour on Linux as on NetWare when NCS fences a node --> this should be "halt the server" instead of "reboot" 2. customer wants ...

    Comments (0) | by: Bhanuprakash B. | over a year ago | Last activity over a year ago | Status changed over a year ago | Cluster Services (NCS)
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    NCS iManager Plugin needs ability to configure NCS Node Isolation ...

    We need the ability to configure the Node Isolation Script through iManager via the Cluster Plugin. It would be great if this could be added to the nodes properties - ...

    Comments (0) | by: Bhanuprakash B. | over a year ago | Last activity over a year ago | Status changed over a year ago | Cluster Services (NCS)
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    LUM enablement automated based or membership to a "LUM ENABLED" group.

    One thing I have been asking for from OES 1 is that ability to have LUM enablement automated based or membership to a "LUM ENABLED" group. At the moment, if a user is ...

    Comments (1) | by: Darren T. | over a year ago | Last activity over a year ago | Status changed over a year ago | Linux User Mgt (LUM)
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    Support thin provisioning for NSS Volumes

    Customers want to save space on their SAN by thin provisioning volumes but if something like Salvage is enabled, the free space on the volume, and therefore all the space ...

    Comments (5) | by: Lothar W. | over a year ago | Last activity over a year ago | Status changed over a year ago | NSS
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    metamig to save trustees selecting NDS only / AD only / all users.

    The goal would be to save / restore the trustees only for users in a specific Directory (NDS or AD) or for all users. Would it be possible to add a way with metamig to ...

    Comments (0) | by: REGIS D. | over a year ago | Last activity over a year ago | Status changed over a year ago | NSS
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    Remove option "use existing" during domain join

    When joining an OES server to a domain there is an option that needs to be activated or deactivated in case the computer object was pre-created or not. In case this ...

    Comments (0) | by: Martin W. | over a year ago | Last activity over a year ago | Status changed over a year ago | NSS
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    Allow the tree root to be specified as base for subtree search with ...

    When having an eDirectory tree with multiple O= we have to select multiple O= for searching for users in novell-cifs and novell-afp. Depending on the eDirectory ...

    Comments (0) | by: Martin W. | over a year ago | Last activity over a year ago | Status changed over a year ago | Samba/CIFS
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    Add full CIFS remote server support to FTP Services in OES

    The standard and the future of the access protocols used also in an OES environment is CIFS/SMB. Today the FTP gateway functionality in OES supports to have one central ...

    Comments (0) | by: Martin W. | over a year ago | Last activity over a year ago | Status changed over a year ago | FTP
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    Add a Bad Search Cache to Novell Identity Translator (NIT)

    With OES 2015 and AD integration the Novell Identity Translator was added as a basic component in the architecture of OES. This daemon tries to lookup identities against ...

    Comments (0) | by: Martin W. | over a year ago | Last activity over a year ago | Status changed over a year ago | NSS
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    Add migration toolkit support for NAS / MS Server to NSS AD

    Now that we can integrate any OES server for NSS file services into Active Directory we could add the huge value of NSS with all the features (inheritance, visibility, ...

    Comments (2) | by: Martin W. | over a year ago | Last activity over a year ago | Status changed over a year ago | Migration
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    Add NSS Support for 4KB/Sector to support newer drives

    - LSI Megaraid 9380-4i4e controller with 4K drives - Example - https://www.hgst.com/products/hard-drives/ultrastar-c10k1800 - 512Byte emulation to get NSS to support the ...

    Comments (1) | by: Madhan P. | over a year ago | Last activity over a year ago | Status changed over a year ago | NSS
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    NSS support for NFSv4

    There have been some occasional requests for exposing NSS via NFSv4 protocol. If this is of interest to you please, add a comment with the use case and up vote it.

    Comments (7) | by: Madhan P. | over a year ago | Last activity over a year ago | Status changed over a year ago | NSS
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    'rights' tool / command for windows

    In a comment to the post https://www.novell.com/communities/coolsolutions/open-enterprise-server-2015-sp1-beta/ By:anthonibui May 29, 2016 3:47 pm (Edit) Will there be a ...

    Comments (1) | by: Madhan P. | over a year ago | Last activity over a year ago | Status changed over a year ago | NSS