Novell client vista beta

Active Directory here we come! Novell has stuck it's corporate head in the sands of SUSE, and now our windstorm will bury it there. One of the things that I found out today was Novell's plans for a client for Vista.

This was one of the prime questions I was sent to BrainShare to answer. And the answer is Novell will release a preview client for Vista days after Vista releases. There will also be a Vista64 client. But there will never be an XP client due to XP missing key bits of the network stack. Any ideas on how to enable this feature? Tags: Client-Windows. Reply Cancel Cancel. Setting up the Windows-only AutoAdminLogon is section 7. I think this actually first appeared in "Novell Client for Windows Vista 1.

But from then on it should be default. Alan Adams alancrumbadams drcrumb. In addition to Alan's reply, note that the AutoAdminLogon account has to have a password assigned - AutoAdmin with a blank password doesn't work. Interesting point. I'll have to give that a shot sometime. This Vista test was setup using the "control. For what it's worth.

Thanks for the info The reason I was messing with the login profiles was desperation when things didn't work the way I thought they should, even after finding out about control userpasswords2 for setting the default password.

Vista desktops are already on desks in enterprises, they should have had something. Especially since Microsoft had so many betas and RCs to develop against. Jason Williams addressed it this way. Look at it this way. How many drivers and clients are production ready right now? So far only Intel has offical non-beta drivers. ATI and NVidia both only have beta drivers for their display adaptors. Creative Labs only has beta drivers for their sound cards. Vista is not enterprise ready yet, so Novell not having a beta out to try out is really not that bad.

My view of it comes closer to Mr. Microsoft has been diddling the security model on Vista all through the Beta and Release Candidate stages. There are bits there that were changed between the final release candidate and RTM that affect the security environment.

The Novell client by necessity, through inserting itself into the authentication stream, was affected by that. DLU means that the Novell client has to be able to automatically generate user accounts from eDirectory information, which is a deep in the bowels security action.

Password synchronization between eDir and the Vista desktop is another deep in the bowels security action. All of these can be affected by small changes in how Vista behaves with security.