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Submitted by Mike S. (not verified) on 27 June 2007 - 1:35pm.

So far, so good. I have had no problems installing or using this Beta3 version of the Novell Client for Vista. You have come a long way from the Technical Preview version from earlier this year. Keep up the good work! Now, if only there was an iPrint client for Windows Vista to test...

Submitted by Sebastiaan Veld (not verified) on 1 July 2007 - 10:32pm.

The iPrint client will come with OES2. I thinks you'll be able to test that as soon as that goes in public beta.

Submitted by Jim Harris (not verified) on 12 July 2007 - 7:32am.

Would I be OK if I loaded the vista beta before updating the operating system on a laptop to vista businss?

Submitted by Ron van Herk (not verified) on 17 July 2007 - 9:57am.

First recommendation would be to install NW 6.5 SP6, it has a few fixes related to file lock, so these might make a difference.

Submitted by Ron (not verified) on 5 August 2007 - 1:44pm.

Are the cliemt versions being produced for Vista going to be compatible with earlier versions of Novell such as Netware 4.11 and Netware 3.11??

Submitted by Phil S (not verified) on 10 August 2007 - 6:44am.

Using Beta 3 and so far it's been good except for one major problem. We have ZEN7 Desktop Manamgement so I have ConsoleOne 1.3.6f installed. There are certain property pages on application objects that generate errors, particularly when I try to save any changes. For example, if I try to change the icon and click Apply, I get "Unknown meaning for error number 0x1" From that point on, if I try to do just about anything with any of the objects, I get "(Error -255) Multiple meaning error message for error code -255." It's acting as though it has trouble writing any changes to those objects in the eDir. Since application objects are the biggest part of what I do right now, I have no choice but to continue doing changes from my XP system.

The funny part is that the ZEN7 agent works pretty well on my Vista system despite being unsupported. The only bad thing is tha the system tray icon does not show up.

Submitted by Michael M (not verified) on 13 August 2007 - 8:09pm.

I installed Beta3, was going great until I tried accessing a network resource - the machine kept bluescreening due to the ncpl.sys driver. I tried updating the BIOS to no avail. I loaded the tech preview version and that seems to have resolved the bluescreen issue, however, I now can't open any Microsoft Office documents located on a network drive. I get an error message in Word, Excel and Powerpoint "Access Denied. Contact your administrator".... When I copy the file locally and open it, there are no issues. Anyone else getting this issue? Anyone know any fixes? If this is not the right blog, I apologise in advance.

Submitted by Michael M (not verified) on 16 August 2007 - 3:20pm.

Adam, are you using Asus chipset at all? Have you tried the Technical Preview version?

Submitted by Victor Kulichkin (not verified) on 17 August 2007 - 7:33pm.

I have some problems with this Beta : in the Login window (Advanced) the Client does not see any tree and servers. I think that there is not support of SLP. So for login I need to enter a context and an IP of servers. The Client for XP/2003 has a great utility SLPINFO, by using which we can diagnose that problem. I think the Client for Vista also must have this tool.

Submitted by Michael M (not verified) on 22 August 2007 - 10:52pm.

Hey Victor,

Don't know how your servers are setup, but we have to register with the tree and server here as well. What I did was I right clicked on the system tray icon, went to Novell Client Properties and on the 'Client' tab entered the Tree and Server address, then clicked 'Add'. Novell required me to restart the computer, after which I went to the 'Novell Login...', entered my tree and the server field was automatically populated. Logged in fine after that.

Hope that helps...