Microsoft Client Service for NetWare on Windows 2000 Professional
Overall this is pretty similar to NT4. I'm not sure anything at all has actually changed.
Contents
Tools
To follow along you'll need a VM with:
- Windows 2000 Professional. I'm using SP4 Update Rollup 1.
- Bridged networking (IPX won't get through NAT)
- A NIC thats setup in Windows (I'm using PCnet-PCI II)
Creating the VM and installing Windows 2000 are out of scope for this document as nothing special is required.
Installing
A clean install of Windows 2000 Professional SP4 with Update Rollup 1 installed.
Right click on My Network Places and choose Properties.
Double click on the Local Area Network
And click Properties.
Click the Install button.
Choose Client
And choose Client Service for NetWare
Two prompts at once! Asking to reboot and asking for NDS stuff. Lets deal with NDS first.
Fill in the details and click OK.
Looks like this will be the same deal as previous versions of NT - the local username must match the netware username. Click Yes for now.
I'm going to click No to this and create a windows user with a username and password that match a neware account first.
Close all this. Don't reboot.
Manage the computer.
Make a user
With the same username and password as a netware user. Don't force password change. Then reboot.
Login with the local user created earlier. There is nothing netware related in the options button (just login over dialup)
Now we get to pick how we login to NetWare.
Fill in the boxes, click OK and the login script runs!
More Screenshots
Network drives are mapped!
As usual no interesting properties for the drives or any files or folders in it.
Under My Network Places\Entire Network there is a Netware icon.
Which shows the netware stuff
Server context menu
WhoAmI - not as fancy as Windows 9x.
Server properties
Contents of the server.
Tree properties
Inside the tree is an organisation.
Which contains all the things.
Print queue properties.
Print queue NDS tab.
Thats about all there is to see!
Disclaimer & Comments
I'm not a netware expert, don't have any of those fancy novell certifications and have never administred a netware network; I've just played with it at home occasionally since 2004 or so. Email me if you've got any suggestions or corrections for this page or any extra information you think is worth including here. My address is david at this websites domain name (without the www bit of course).