At work we use a Novell infrastructure, so I thought I might be forced to use a Windows System. After a couple of days messing with rpms and server mounts, I’ve finally managed to get everything working nicely on my new Ubuntu Desktop.

Now just to try and remember what I did, for this journal…

Install novelclient (one L) from SourceForge. Forget the official Novell Client.
Setup the ‘Default’ local profile NDS Server, and tick the rest of the boxes to DHCP, they will pickup all the info they need.

Login using the Server IPs as the tree, one at a time (use the correct full Context). This will mount all the directories needed.

To isntall the official Linux versions of GroupWise and ConsoleOne, I had to convert the .rpm files into .debs:
sudo alien -v -d novell-blahblah.rpm
sudo dpkg -i novell-blahblah.deb

To get GW snapins in ConsoleOne, download the full gw701lnx_eval.iso mount it, and extract novell-groupwise-admin-7.0.1-20060627.i386.rpm from the admin dir.
Install this the same way as before. Sorted

When you open ConsoleOne, it will now ask for the location of your mount with the wpdomain.db file.

Instead of NW Admin, I’m using the iManager website. Although this stuff can be done in ConsoleOne, sometimes it’s just a nicer interface.

I believe that’s everything.

Tweeks:
GroupWare had to be connected using the Server DNS, which I got from launching the Windows version and going to Help > About; Cw_admin_gpo_server.domain.ac.uk instead of the actual post office (CW_EMAIL).

I had to connect the GW snapins to the domain file: /home/calvin/SC_ADMIN/192.168.50.21/GPO/GW5/wpdomain.db

Download the latest snack binary (don’t bother with source, it’s a long ting).

http://www.speech.kth.se/snack

Sudo copy the dir to /usr/lib
Run the aMSN voice setup.

Sorted =]

Just installed a nice xmms alarm clock plugin, to wake me up in time for uni tomorrow morning!

(remember to install xmms-devel first).

http://www.snika.uklinux.net/?p=xmms-alarm

This fades in music to wake you up. Much better than an annoying sound effect, or playing an mp3 via cron schedule.

Just a little note as a reminder to myself.

This guide is amaizing. Don’t look anywhere else for info on installing Logitech MX1000 drivers;

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/MX1000Mouse

Had to do a quick little code to enable my user account full permission of my spare hard drives.

lordc@umbongo:~$ sudo chown -R lordc:lordc /media/hda1
lordc@umbongo:~$ sudo chmod 744 /media/hda1
lordc@umbongo:~$ sudo chown -R lordc:lordc /media/hdd1
lordc@umbongo:~$ sudo chmod 744 /media/hdd1

Take ownership with chown, then the chmod will stick