Environment
Novell GroupWise 2014 R2 Support Pack 1
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Novell GroupWise 2014 R2 Support Pack 2
Situation
A Service Connection Point (SCP) in a Active Directory environment is used to locate services. When a workstation is added to a AD domain, the GroupWise client will search AD for a SCP created to define a GroupWise POA DNS name and client server port. This negates the requirement for the user to supply an address and port when the GW client is started for the first time.
Run ADSI Edit on the AD Domain Controller or other machine
where you can connect ADSI edit to the Active Directory
domain.
1. When you are connected, go to
DC=your,DC=Domain,DC=Controller, then CN=Computers and find the entry for your Linux server where the GroupWise Post Office resides and highlight it.
2. On the right Actions pane, go to More Actions | New |
Object
3. Select class of
serviceConnectionPoint
4. Enter postofficname.domainname for
the cn value, ie, Provo.Utah
5. Select Finish
6. Right click on the new SCP object (a
child of the computer object) and go to Properties
7. Find the keywords attribute and
select Edit
8. Add the following 4 keyword values
(one at a time, when completed, it will be sorted alphanumerically)
Novell
GroupWise
7802DE87-9F23-4DAB-A31D-7991A4F11625
FB6F0931-1D3A-4C36-8F97-EC97636138DD
The above bottom 2 values must be exactly
as above. The GW client looks for these keywords to find a
SCP.
9. Set the serviceBindingInformation
attribute and enter 1677 (or the client server port for this
PostOffice's POA )
10. Set the ServiceClassName attribute
to groupwise (must be exact)
11. Set the serviceDNSName to the
hostname of server (must match what the POA's hostname is configure
for)
12. Set the serviceDNSNameType to A
(assuming it is an A record in DNS)
13. Apply Changes