Moby writes:

After going through Novell's web site multiple times, I realize (correctly I think) that OES on Linux and SLES are the same product,

They are not. OES is basically SLES plus additional Novell services on top.

namely a Linux core with Novell services on top. I am interested in being able to create NSS volumes on Linux and having people use those NSS volumes from machines running the Novell client for Windows. From what I gather, I can do that with OES on Linux and also with SLES. Can anyone tell me whether it is possible to create NSS volumes on stock Suse Linux 10.1? I understand that one would have to buy either OES or SLES - but having done that, is there a way to take the components required for creating NSS volumes and providing NCP services and installing them on a stock SuSE Linux 10.1 machine?

10.1 comes with the novfs kernel module but I do not know what else is needed to get this running, Andreas -- Andreas Jaeger, aj@suse.de, http://www.suse.de/~aj/ SUSE Linux Products GmbH, Maxfeldstr. 5, 90409 Nürnberg, Germany GPG fingerprint = 93A3 365E CE47 B889 DF7F FED1 389A 563C C272 A126

Moby writes:

Thanks for your replay Andreas. From what I have been able to gather so far, it may not be possible to use NSS on stock SuSE 10.1, though it is something I still intend to try and make sure cannot be done. Apparently NSS support has to be built into the kernel, and the NSS code base is proprietary (at least so far - hopeful look!). I am

NSS support in the kernel is the novfs kernel module - and that one is open source and part of 10.1. I just do not know whether that kernel module is enough or whether you need more.

going to setup a OES on Linux box and see if I can identify whether I can pull out pieces to create NSS volumes on stock 10,1 - not sure about it's legality though :(

If it's just the kernel module: That's open source and fine to use, Andreas -- Andreas Jaeger, aj@suse.de, http://www.suse.de/~aj/ SUSE Linux Products GmbH, Maxfeldstr. 5, 90409 Nürnberg, Germany GPG fingerprint = 93A3 365E CE47 B889 DF7F FED1 389A 563C C272 A126