Prosoft Releases Mac OS X Client for Netware

JSherman writes "Prosoft Engineering has released a client that enables Mac OS X to connect to a Novell network. The client is pure TCP/IP, and is not tied with AppleTalk. Its been possible for Macs to connect to Netware Servers for a long time by using Novell's Native File Access, but this is a much better method since it's an actual client that will remember your user ID and password when connecting to servers, and it allows you to browse the NDS tree. This is great news for all of us that use Apple computers in the Enterprise. Mac OS X progress marches on."

Comments

It's dead, Jim.

[Mordant]

NetWare is dead - nobody runs it, anymore. Why do you view this as 'progress' for OS/X?

Virtual desktops, now -that- would be progress for OS/X - I'd like to see -that- problem addressed, rather than celebrating OS/X client access to a NOS which, while once king of the hill, is on life-support.

What 'progress' are you going to celebrate next, a new OS/X client for Banyan VINES, or OS/2 LAN Manager, heh?

Like that is any good news

[Cyrano_De]

Anyone who has used the prosoft (formerly novells very own client) client on any OS9 macintoshes in a large novell site will tell you what a pain in the ass it is. If you have multiple networks and need to mount shares across a router FORGET IT. Prosoft will tell you it is a Novell Problem, Novell will tell you it is a Macintosh problem, Apple will tell you they have appletalk why do we care what anyone else does. You might get it to mount the share once every 5 times......You may have to attempt to mount the drives 500 times. Good luck to anyone else out there that has to support a crapintosh on a network of real computers.....