July 26, 2006
Novell® Client™ for Linux supports 32-bit hardware platforms only. Even though SUSE® Linux Enterprise Desktop (SLED) supports some 64-bit hardware platforms, Novell Client for Linux 1.2 is designed for 32-bit hardware only.
If you are upgrading a Novell Linux Desktop 9 machine running the Novell Client for Linux 1.0 or 1.1 to SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 10, the update process will break the Novell Client for Linux 1.0 or 1.1 (neither of which are supported on SLED 10).
You will need to uninstall the Novell Client for Linux 1.0 or 1.1 and then install the Novell Client for Linux 1.2 on SLED 10.
When running the installation script, you might see the following error message, but the Novell Client for Linux installs correctly anyway.
ERROR: Module novfs is in use.
When using the Add-on Product feature in YaST to install the
Novell Client for Linux 1.2 on SUSE Linux 10.1, the install process
displays an Import Untrusted GnuPG Key
error.
Select to import the key. The install will complete successfully.
This version of Novell Client for Linux provides an integrated
login experience with the initial workstation login screen. For
more information, see Section 5.1: Setting Up Integrated
Login
in the Novell
Client for Linux Installation and Administration Guide.
For Integrated Login to work, the Novell Common Authentication Services Adapter (CASA) must be installed and enabled. CASA is a common authentication and security package that provides a set of libraries for application and service developers to enable single sign-on to an enterprise network.
CASA is installed by default with SLED 10, but it is not enabled. CASA is not installed or enabled by default with SUSE Linux 10.1.
To install CASA:
In the YaST Control Center, click in the left column, then click in the right column.
Click in the drop-down list.
Type casa in the Search field, then click .
Select the casa packages for installation, then click .
After all the packages have been installed, click to close the YaST Control Center.
To enable CASA:
In the YaST Control Center, click in the left column, then click in the right column.
Click , then click .
Click to close the CASA Configuration Wizard.
If you have already configured the Integrated Login feature and then enable GDM to automatically log in a user, Integrated Login will not work.
If the CN user identifier variable is used in the login script, it displays the wrong information if the Other Name field is filled in. This results in drive mappings not being made. Depending on how the variable login script is used, errors might occur.
The following is a sample of valid login script syntax for the MAP command:
map my_projects:=server/vol:path
map f:=server/vol/path
map f:=vol:path
map f:=vol:\path
map display on f:=server\vol:path
map display off f:=server\vol:path
map “my projects”:=server/vol:path
map f:=\\server\vol\path
map *1:=server\vol:\path
NOTE:Linux does not support backslashes on the command line. UNC names can be written with forward slashes. For example, map f:=//server/vol/path
The MAP command works differently based on whether you run it from a login script or at the command line. The following is a list of differences in how the MAP command behaves at the command line in Linux versus how it works at the command line in Windows*.
map j:=server1/vol:/path;server2/vol:path
The following login script commands are not currently implemented in the Novell Client for Linux.
DRIVE
MAP S1:=server/vol:/path (Search drives are not implemented but default to creating symbolic links S1..S16)
In Linux, the IF statement cannot be used without the THEN statement. This is not true in Windows. Hence, the following statement does not work in Linux:
IF MONTH=”07”
WRITE “This is July”
To resolve this, include the THEN statement each time.
IF MONTH=”07”
THEN WRITE “This is July”
If you are experiencing problems logging in with Novell Client for Linux, a first step is to check that the needed packages are all running. At the Console Terminal, type ps -A | grep nov.
IMPORTANT:You must have root privileges in order to run this command.
The following should appear:
novell-xregd novfs_ST novfsd
If one of these processes is not listed, restart the Novell Client for Linux.
/opt/novell/ncl/bin/ncl_control restart
If either of these commands displays any errors, restart the Linux machine.
In addition, /opt/novell/ncl/bin/ncl_control status shows whether the NCL drivers are loaded properly or not.
If you are logging in to a tree that does not have a registered DNS name, you must enter the server name in the field to log in.
There are rare occasions when a login script does not run. To solve this, log in again to rerun the login script.
If you log in with a password policy, grace login attempts do not decrement.
Some Novell Client for Linux login functions don't work (or work incorrectly) if you log in with a name containing Cyrillic characters.
In SLED when running the GNOME* desktop, you can’t delete a folder if it has been copied from one server to another and then copied back to the original server if you use the GUI. For example, if you copy and paste a folder from Server A to Server B, delete the original folder from Server A, copy the folder from Server B back to Server A, and then attempt to delete the folder from Server B, an error occurs and the folder cannot be removed. To solve this problem, delete the folder using a terminal.
Users are unable to delete files on GNOME if the trash folder is set up at the root of an OES or NetWare® server volume where the users don't have rights. Users are then unable to delete files in subdirectories on the OES or NetWare servers where they do have the proper rights to create/modify/delete files. The following is also true:
A patch for this defect will be posted.
GNOME is leaking file handles, which is causing files to be left open.
A patch for this defect will be posted.
Nautilus and FAM generate high amounts of traffic during file operations and severely impact the performance of the Novell Client for Linux.
A patch for this defect will be posted. With this patch applied, a polling interval can be configured to improve overall performance of file I/O using NCL.
Users cannot see cluster virtual server objects through SLP from the Server button. To resolve this, use the IP address instead of the server name.
If you log in to the same NetWare server from two different workstations (such as SLED 10 and SUSE Linux 10.1) and open the same file on both workstations, you might receive an error when you try to save the file from one of the workstations.
If you save the file again, the file will save properly.
If you save a file using gedit on SLED 10 when write file access is not given, you will receive a message saying that you can’t save the file. If you try to save the file again, gedit will die.
During a file copy, the workstation hangs because of issues with FAM/iNotify. These issues are not directly related to Novell Client, but happen because of the way FAM validates requests. This means that in order to complete a file copy, you must remove the FAM service.
To remove a service from a runlevel, you must either delete the symbolic links manually from the folder with all the scripts for the desired runlevel, or run the following command:
insserv -r fam
This command removes the service from all runlevels.
Occasionally, non-authenticated (invalid) connections are erroneously displayed in the /var/opt/novell/nclmnt directory. When the server name is displayed along with the volumes and files, this indicates an authenticated (valid) connection.
When a user’s password expires, the user is informed of the amount of grace logins remaining but is not prompted to change the password. When the grace logins have been exhausted, the user cannot login.
An administrator must update the password using Novell iManager or ConsoleOne®.
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