1.2 File Access and Collaboration Services

Users need to access data securely from a variety of locations including in the office and home, throughout the business or university campus, and on the road. Security and resources management should be easy to use for administrators and users. Security should protect the network resources but not impair the users’ ability to do their job anywhere, at any time.

Storage Requirement

Novell OES Solution

Authorized access to data: The ability to restrict access to data based on user and applications rights.

Novell eDirectory™ provides a trustee-based rights and access control system that maintains access control rights throughout the enterprise. Trustee management is integrated into the NSS file system on OES 2 Linux and NetWare. NCP™ volumes for OES 2 Linux also support the file system trustee model for access control.

For information, see the Novell eDirectory 8.8 Administration Guide.

Authorized access to data in the event that media is stolen: The ability to meet the legal standard of making data inaccessible to software that circumvents normal access control, such as if the media were stolen.

NSS provides Encrypted Volume Support that requires password access to activate an encrypted NSS volume on server boot or restart.

For information, see the Managing Encrypted NSS Volumes in the OES2: NSS File System Administration Guide.

Heterogeneous client and application support with transparent read/write access to network storage areas: The ability to access network data regardless of client or server operating system, the file storage system, or the database format.

NetWare supports native file access for multiple client and server platforms including Windows*, Macintosh*, Linux, and Windows. Web Distributed Authoring and Versioning (WebDAV) clients are also supported. Protocols supported include NCP, CIFS, AFP, and NFS. For information, see the OES2: Native File Access Protocols Guide.

OES 2 Linux supports file access protocols for Windows, Linux, and UNIX clients. OES 2 supports NCP and Linux Samba and NFS. In OES 2 SP1 Linux, Novell CIFS and Novell AFP are also available. They work similarly to CIFS and AFP on NetWare. For information, see the OES 2 SP1: Novell CIFS for Linux Administration Guide and OES 2 SP1 Novell AFP for Linux Administration Guide.

Heterogeneous client and application support in an Active Directory domain: The ability to access network data using the Novell trustee model in an Active Directory domain.

For OES 2 SP1 Linux and later, Domain Services for Windows is available. It allows CIFS/Samba users in an Active Directory domain to access their data on NSS volumes and NCP volumes on OES 2 SP1 Linux servers. For information, see the OES 2 SP1: Novell Domain Services for Windows Administration Guide.

Secure access to network data from anywhere, at any time: The ability to securely access network data using a standard Web browser from anywhere at any time without requiring special software on the workstation.

Novell NetStorage provides Internet-based access to network files. You can set up a NetStorage server to provide users with secure Web-based access to their files from anywhere, at any time. For information, see the OES 2: NetStorage for Linux Administration Guide and the OES 2: NetStorage for NetWare Administration Guide.

NetStorage also provides access to previous file versions if you implement the Novell Archive and Version Services as part of your overall storage solution. For information, see the OES 2: Novell Archive and Version Services Administration Guide.

Secure access to local data from anywhere, at any time: The ability to access local data using a standard Web browser from anywhere at any time without requiring special software on the workstation.

Secure access to local data from specified workstations at any time: The ability to access local data from different locations on the network.

Novell iFolder® provides Web-based and network-based access to local files stored on network servers. iFolder provides users transparent, cross-platform file transfer by synchronizing files across multiple workstations from a secure, centralized network server.

Users can use the iFolder client on specified workstations to access their local files wherever they are working and know that they have the most current version of a file to work with.

Data transfers between the server and clients are encrypted for secure data transfer.

Users can use a Web browser to access files from anywhere using a secure sockets layer (SSL) connection; it does not require a virtual private network (VPN) connection.

Novell iFolder 3x supports shared access to iFolders. For information, see the Novell iFolder 3.x documentation Web site.

Secure file access for data on NetWare servers: The ability to provide secure file access to data on NSS volumes on NetWare servers for clients in a heterogeneous client environment.

The Novell Client™ provides secure file access from clients using NCP. For information, see the Novell Client 4.91 SP5 for Windows XP/2003 Installation and Administration Guide, the Novell Client 2 for Windows Vista/2008 Administration Guide, and the Novell Client 2.0 SP2 for Linux Administration Guide.

For NetWare, OES supports native file access protocols such as CIFS, AFP, and NFS. For information, see the OES 2: Native File Access Protocols Guide.

In OES 2 SP1 Linux, Novell CIFS and Novell AFP work similarly to CIFS and AFP on NetWare. For information, see the OES 2 SP1: Novell CIFS for Linux Administration Guide and OES 2 SP1 Novell AFP for Linux Administration Guide.

Secure file access to data on Linux servers: The ability to provide secure file access to data on Linux servers for clients in a heterogeneous client environment.

OES provides the NCP Server for Linux. For information, see the OES 2: NCP Server for Linux Administration Guide.

The Novell Client provides secure file access from clients using NCP. For information, see the Novell Client 4.91 SP5 for Windows XP/2003 Installation and Administration Guide, the Novell Client 2 for Windows Vista/2008 Administration Guide, and the Novell Client 2.0 SP2 for Linux Administration Guide.

For Linux, OES supports native file access protocols such as Samba and NFS. For OES 2 SP1, Novell CIFS, Novell AFP, and Domain Services for Windows are also options.