The enhancements and changes described in this section were made to file system management features for the initial release of OES 2.
The Files and Folders plug-in to Novell iManager 2.7 provides folder (directory) and file management tasks for administrators and users. Selecting the icon in the iManager toolbar presents a file system tree-browsing view of volumes that have Volume objects in Novell eDirectory. The role in the view provides a tasked-based view of file and folder management. The plug-in can be used to manage Novell Storage Services (NSS) volumes and NCP (NetWare Core Protocol) volumes on OES 2 Linux and later.
The following tasks are available from either view (tree-browse or role-tasks). Features that apply only to a given file system are noted.
Properties management for files and folders
Trustees
Trustee rights
Inherited rights filters (IRF)
View effective rights for a given trustee for a file, and view inherited rights filters along its full path
File system attributes (only NSS volumes)
Directory quotas (only for NSS volumes where the volume’s Directory Quotas attribute is enabled)
File ownership
Create and delete folders
Upload and download files
Salvage and purge deleted files and directories (only for NSS volumes where the volume’s Salvage attribute is enabled)
See the following resources for the latest release of the Novell Client, which provides NCP access for users on Linux and Windows.
The Samba for Linux plug-in for Novell iManager 2.7 has been revamped to provide a more intuitive setup for Samba/CIFS users on your OES 2 Linux server. For information, see OES2 SP3: Samba Administration Guide.
Novell Distributed File Services is supported on OES 2 Linux. Replica sites for the DFS management context can run on OES 2 Linux or NetWare 6.5 SP8, and can be clustered. You can create DFS junctions on NSS volumes on either platform and point the junction to target locations on NSS volumes and NCP volumes.
The Distributed File Services plug-in for Novell iManager 2.7x is available to manage management contexts, replica sites, and junctions. You can set rights on junctions and on junction targets, and copy explicitly set trustees, trustee rights, and inherited rights filters between them. Inheritance of rights occurs independently for junction and the junction target locations, each relative to its own location.
For information, see the OES 2 SP3: Novell Distributed File Services Administration Guide for Linux.
Extended Attributes (XAttr) support was added for backing up trustee information for NSS volumes on Linux. For information, see Extended Attributes (XAttr) Commands
in the OES 2 SP3: NSS File System Administration Guide for Linux.