C.0 Comparing CIFS on NetWare and CIFS on OES 11 SP3

This section compares features and capabilities of Novell CIFS on NetWare and Novell Open Enterprise Server 11 SP3 servers.

Table C-1 CIFS services on NetWare and OES 11 SP3

Service

NetWare

OES 11 SP3

64-Bit Support

No

Yes

NSS Support

Yes

Yes

Distributed File Services

Yes

Yes

OpLocks

Yes

Yes

Cross Protocol Locking

Yes

Yes

CIFS-enabled shared NSS pool/volume in a NetWare-to-NetWare or Linux-to-Linux cluster

Yes

Yes

CIFS-enabled shared NSS pool/volume in a mixed NetWare-to-Linux cluster

No

No

iManager Support and Administration tool

Yes

Yes

File and Record Locking

Yes

Yes

Domain Emulation

Yes

Future

Monitoring

No

Yes

Xen Virtualized Host Server Environment

NA

No

Xen Virtualized Guest Server Environment

Yes

Yes

Multi-processor/Multicore Server Support

No

Yes

Multi-File System Support

No

Future

NTLMv2

No

Yes

Dynamic Storage Technology Support

No

Yes

LDAP User (Subtree) Search

No

Yes