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Installing the Novell Client for OpenSUSE 10.2 onto OpenSUSE 11.0
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The Novell Client for OpenSUSE 10.2 will install on OpenSUSE 11.0 with a few hacks.
First, a couple of prerequisites:
- You must have gtk installed. You can make sure this is installed by typing
yast -i gtk
while logged in as root.
- It has also been mentioned that you need to make sure that kdelibs3 must be installed for Gnome users. You can make sure this is installed by typing
yast -i kdelibs3
while logged in as root.
Once you've made sure that you have both of those installed, here's how to put it all together:
- Download the client.
- From a root console, type the following:
cd /usr/lib ln -s libbfd-2.18.50.20080409-11.1.so libbfd-2.17.50.0.5.so
If you are running the 64 bit version, you'll also need to type the following:
cd /usr/lib64 ln -s libbfd-2.18.50.20080409-11.1.so libbfd-2.17.50.0.5.so
- Force installation of the novell-xtier-base RPM to ignore the dependency failure:
cd /media/cdrom (or wherever you have the installation image mounted) cd suse/i586 rpm -U --nodeps novell-xtier-base-3.1.5-6.23.i586.rpm
- Run the ncl_install script from the installation media. You will probably see an error that it was unable to compile the novfs kernel module. That's ok as there is already one that was installed with the kernel.
- Every time novfsd tries to load it attempts to rebuild the kernel module. This was an old failsafe to work around a possible load failure when kernels were updated. Since OpenSUSE 11.0's kernel install includes this module by default, we can edit the /etc/init.d/novfsd script to comment out lines 87 and 88:
# Rebuild the novfs if needed #cd /opt/novell/ncl/src/novfs #./mk_novfs
- Reboot your machine to make sure that everything reloads correctly.
The client should now be working correctly and your login script should process as normal.
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any options for x86_64?
Submitted by petefuller on 30 June 2008 - 1:07pm.
this was working on 10.2, tried running this fix on 64 bit machine and hasn't worked. Any options there? Novell planning on putting out an updated client?
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Configuration for an x86_64 machine
Submitted by ackitsme on 30 June 2008 - 3:53pm.
I'm going to be rebuilding my test box with OpenSUSE 11.0 x86_64 here in the next few days. Once I figure out how to make the client work there, I'll post instructions for that.
Updated client
Submitted by leraly on 2 July 2008 - 2:04am.
Novell is working very hard to release an updated client.
They released already a (beta)version for 10.3
http://www.novell.com/beta/auth/beta.jsp?id=2585&t...
And they are now working on a version for 11.0 progress can be tracked via:
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=405057
Cannot see the OpenSuse 11.0 progress
Submitted by modicr on 5 July 2008 - 5:41am.
Thanks for the link, but I'm not allowed to open the
second link ...
Doesn't work with KDE4
Submitted by cehughes on 7 July 2008 - 6:04pm.
I followed the instructions, but it doesn't seem to work if KDE4 is your desktop environment. The install said it completed successfully. There was messages about a file or directory that access denied. It was some hidden file or directory in my users home directory. I configured the client with any errors. When try to run the novell_tray app it never starts. There are no visible errors given, it just doesn't show up in the tray. The same thing occurs if try to run the novell_login app.
Excellent
Submitted by murrayad on 18 July 2008 - 4:26am.
First tried it out on tried it out on Suse 11 that was running as a guest VM via Virtual Box on a Win XP WS which worked well. Then repeated the install onto real hardware. No issues at all. Thanks.
Cannot find Tree
Submitted by netmike787 on 24 July 2008 - 4:05am.
Hi,
I was able to install the client but encountered an error. Anyone who knows how to solve this issue?
Thanks!
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Cannot scan Connection References. Error:NWCCScanConnRefs:
Code : FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFB
Build : 1.0.0
File : ncpConnectionRefScanner.cpp
Line : 78
Repository Version : $Revision: 2041 $
Firewall
Submitted by labiol (not verified) on 29 August 2008 - 3:23am.
All you write works for me. But you should also mension how to configure SuSE firewall, to discover novell tree. I had to open the slp port in Firewall GUI and add some rule in 2 files - in /etc/sysconfig/SuSEfirewall2 change
#FW_CUSTOMRULES="/etc/sysconfig/scripts/SuSEfirewall2-custom"
FW_CUSTOMRULES=""
to
FW_CUSTOMRULES="/etc/sysconfig/scripts/SuSEfirewall2-custom"
#FW_CUSTOMRULES=""
and in /etc/sysconfig/scripts/SuSEfirewall2-custom in fw_custom_before_denyall() add the following line iptables -I INPUT 1 -j ACCEPT -p udp --sport 427. To finish reboot the machine.
Instlaling
Submitted by crzy1 on 20 September 2008 - 8:47pm.
Went thru' all the steps, but still get errors below
error: Failed dependencies:
libldap-2.3.so.0 is needed by novell-ui-base-3.0.b506-2.i586
libldap-2.3.so.0 is needed by novell-qtgui-3.0.b508-2.i586
I get several more errors if installing plug-ins for:
novell-konqueror-plugin
and
novell-nautilus-plugin
Anyone got any good ideas?
cannot find the tree
Submitted by szaki on 30 September 2008 - 1:07am.
Hello,
I installed the 2.0 client on opensuse 11 i586.
It seems to be working, on the special/edirectory tab if I click on trees it find the tree, if I click on servers I can choose from our running servers but if I click on context, I have an error message that the selected tree can not be reached.
Have anybody an idea?
Firewall does not run.
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