C.0 Comparing CIFS on NetWare and CIFS on OES 2015 SP1

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

Table C-1 CIFS services on NetWare and OES 2015 SP1

Service

NetWare

OES 2015 SP1

Kerberos Authentication for Active Directory Users

No

Yes

Extended Security Support (NTLMSSP) for eDirectory Users

No

Yes

SMB 2.0 (SMB 2.002) Verb Compliance

No

Yes

Direct hosted "NetBIOS-less" SMB traffic over port 445 (TCP)

No

Yes

File System Change Notifications Support

No

Yes

Sync user quotas between primary and shadow volumes for eDirectory and Active Directory users using novcifs command options

No

Yes

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