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Submitted by cneal-novell on 10 April 2008 - 2:54am.

This demo has now been posted to the NODS service. To provision the demo for direct access thru your web browser visit the NODS url appropriate to your Geo:

http://secure-www.novell.com/partners/nods/americas
http://secure-www.novell.com/partners/nods/emea
http://secure-www.noell.com/partners/nods/asiapac

(PartnerNet or Novell employee login required)

Submitted by cneal-novell on 14 April 2008 - 12:44am.

FlyingGuy,

If you are unable to access the demo or its documentation please provide more details so that I can help you.

Can you describe what error/problem you are seeing?

Chris

Submitted by FlyingGuy on 14 April 2008 - 10:20am.

OK I setup another Demo...

Got BOTH e-mail messages

The demo was set up on: http://zaphod.lab.novell.com:5935

I popped that URL into FF and my SLES 10 SP1 box.

The login prompt came up.

NONE of the supplied login credentials worked, nor did my partnerNet login credentials work.

I tried the "forgotten password" link, and popped in the same e-mail address the system sent me my "conformation Message" to and was promptly told that "The email address you requested is not registered in our database." .

So one again, I will just say Its Broken.

Submitted by FlyingGuy on 14 April 2008 - 10:10pm.

This was about 2130 hrs PDT, I really hope the machine I was connected to was very heavily loaded or that the resources it was trying to connect to were heavily loaded. If not, then this thing is slower then molasses in January.

Look I know all the 20 somethings think that T&C is just the coolest thing ever, but when I looked at it, it really confirmed what I had thought before looking at it, and that was:

This is a bunch of 20 somethings trying desperately to shoe horn their love of Facebook and or Myspace into business or alternatively, and it pains me to say this, it is a business desperate to lure the 20 somethings by building a product that attempts to re-create Facebook and or MySpace and bend it to the breaking point so it will seem as though it is a business application.

In either regard its sad to see Novell heading down this road.

If these demo's are meant to sway folks, like me, who do business then failure is all I see. No where do I see:

Enterprise resources - printing file services on far flung servers.

Anything that remotely resembles any current Novell Product.

All I see is a place to stick files to share, a place to put up vanity web pages, pictures of my kids???? My vacation??? and in general a place to waste time tweaking a bunch of settings to replace what would very simply be an e-mail with an attachment, or an invite to a GW shared folder a pointer to a file in a GW file library.

Sorry, it just doesn't show value, except to appeal to a bunch of collage kids who can't let go of playing on FaceBook or MySpace when they should be growing up and learning that work is just that, work.

Submitted by roopa28 on 22 January 2009 - 6:40pm.

I am sorry to write this email directly to you.

In the last 3 weeks I struggled every single day to install Conferencing server/client and tried to ask some questions on Kablink. But I did not get any reply.

My problem is, I have installed all the prerequisites of Conferecning server (neon, postgerql, php5, apache2 etc) on SLES 10 sp1. Also created 3 IP addresses and DNS names. The installation goes through successfully with absolutely no issue but when I access the portal, I get an empty page with bottombar that says Novell. Is there a problem with PHP5 config? Do I need to fix anything here?

2nd problem, I am unable to connect from clicnt to server. I keep getting -992 code on the client.

I will really appreciate if you could help me with this. Once I am satisfied with the product, I am going to start adding Video piece to it (ofcourse for opensource).

I also had issues with client building. but I think that I can get it working.

Please help me in debugging this issue or if I need to contact support directly, please give me a number or something.