Andrew Robert Smith is today’s PC Weenies Guest-Star. He writes:
Hi Krishna,I love your comic and have several of them hanging up in my cube at work. My bosses get a kick out of them too. I’m kind of a network suport specialist / junior systems administrator for a private highschool. Lately we’ve been getting an influx of people who would like to use Macs on our network, which is a problem because we’re running a Novell backend. I’m all for other Operating systems…
I’m writing this message from firefox on a linux desktop, but MacOSX doesn’t always play nice in a Novell enviroment. And, because it’s not really linux (more of a BSD base as I understand), the Novell linux client won’t work either. I don’t want to bash Macs as I really think OS X is slick but does it really have a place in a business enviroment?
Anyway, I’d love to be in a comic about this little dilemma, it would be a great collectible to keep on my desk. Thanks for your time and for the great work you do!
Thank you, Andrew! Check out Andrew’s appearance on the ever-growing Guest-Star Wall of Fame!
-Krishna
I’d love to do an online interview with you and publish it on my blog if it will help you get a little more publicity.
Just let me know when I can chat with you.
hari – sounds good – weekends work best…
What’s become of the Mac OS X Novell client I worked with in college?
Andrew, please check out http://macenterprise.org (very active discussion list, formerly MacOSXLabs.org) and http://afp548.com for more support and information deploying Macs in multi-platform environments, including Novell. In particular if you search the list archives on the MacEnterprise.org site, you may find your issues already have been addressed by others.
People still USE Novell networks? I had no idea. :-)
LOL,
I am a JUNIOR systems admin. I didn’t build this network. I come from an AD background myself, but I will tell you that given the choice of Novell on OES Linux VS Microsux Server 2003 I choose linux. We worked out the math and my network including scheduled take downs is up between 98 and 99.5%. It’s not uncommon for us to go 6-12months (minus long term power outages) without having to restart our core servers. They’re working on the client issue now so eventually it won’t be a problem. It’s not exactly a cake walk to get AD working with a Mac either. Doug, Thanks for the links will check into it.