Microsoft Client for Netware

[Guest]

Help!! I am running a Vista Business PC that connects to 2 Servers (NT 4.0
and Novell Netware 4). My NT 4.0 connection is fine, but I can not find a
Microsoft Client to connect to Netware. I am aware that Novell do not
provide (as yet) a Novell Client for Vista and that there is a beta available
but I do not wish to try an untested client on my PC, so my question is:

Does Microsoft provide its own Client for Netware? If so where can I find
this?

Thanks

 

[Gloria Boyer [MSFT]]

Hi Chris. Unfortunately, IPX/SPX (Internetwork Packet Exchange/Sequenced
Packet Exchange) is not supported in Windows Vista.

 

[Guest]

( Thats not the answer I was hoping to hear.

Oh well. Thank you Gloria It looks like I may be forced to downgrade
to XP Pro then.

 

[Gloria Boyer [MSFT]]

Hey Chris, I'm looking into this further. I may have given you inaccurate
info. Stand by while I investigate some more. (Crossing my fingers that
there's a way to do this!)

Cheers,

--
Gloria Boyer
Windows User Assistance
Microsoft Corporation

 

[Kerry Brown]

Novell is working on a Vista client for Netware. You can currently download
a public beta version.

http://www.novell.com/beta/auth/beta.jsp?id=2306&type=1

--
Kerry Brown
Microsoft MVP - Shell/User
http://www.vistahelp.ca

 

[Kerry Brown]

OK - I totally missed that the OP already knew about the beta.

--
Kerry Brown
Microsoft MVP - Shell/User
http://www.vistahelp.ca

 

[Guest]

Gloria/Kerry

Thank you ever so much for your help on this matter. I look forward to
hearing of any solutions. Additionally, I am also looking for an answer on
the net...............I may be some time!

 

[Gloria Boyer [MSFT]]

Hi again Chris. I verified with the networking team. They told me that we no
longer support IPX/SPX. It was removed from Windows Vista.

So, your best bet (or only bet) is to use the Novell client for Vista.
According to Novell's site, it should be out of beta soon.

Best of luck!
Gloria

 

[Guest]

Thank you Gloria )

 

[Guest]

I'm too looking for a soulition to connect via IPX/SPX using Vista. In my
case I have some older Netware 4.10 servers that I really don't want to add
TCP/IP support to. After reading your thread, I noticed that you are looking
forward to Novell's Vista client. As I read on the Novell beta site they
won't support IPX/SPX either. Here is a quote from the Novell Beta site:
"Novell has also taken the opportunity to remove certain features from the
client such as IPX support and..."
Found here: http://www.novell.com/beta/auth/beta.jsp?id=2306&type=1

I have still been looking for another soulition and so far have only found
this (unsupported by Microsoft):
http://www.starbase01.com/site/index.php?id=22,87,0,0,1,0

If anyone is still interested in my results using the above let me know.

Thanks,

Brian