Re: IPCS NT - Migration from Novell

["Roger Pence" <rp@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> We've got a plant that got a new As/400.  It has a Netfinity server.
Right
> now they use Novell.
>
> How hard would it be to migrate their Novell server to the Netfinity
server
> on the AS/400 using NT?  User names, etc.  Also, is there any place one
can
> look for instructions on installing NT, partitioning the drives, etc. as
> well as migration from Novell?

Bradley--

To install NT on the PC Server card, see the redbook:

Implementing Windows NT on the Integrated NetFinity Server
http://www.redbooks.ibm.com/abstracts/sg242164.html

The redbook (and the installation process itself) is pretty well done and
explains the things you need to know (which really aren't much). You
basically put the NT Server CD in the AS/400 CD ROM drive, and fire off the
INSWNTSRV (Install NT Server) command. But have coffee and reading material
laying around, it crunches and grinds for a long time. Plan on at least two
hours! before you get the first NT Server screen. But once you get this
screen, it's pretty smooth sailing from there.

For best results, be sure to have _two_ LAN cards in the AS/400. If you
don't, the AS/400 shares the LAN card on the PC Server--and that LAN card is
only up when NT Server is up. Once you're up and running, except for the
lack of an A: drive (and any sort of rational scalability) you wouldn't know
you weren't at a free-standing NT Server.

As for NetWare integration, see these Microsoft sites. The first details
what's available in NT Server to help with migration and integration.  The
second details File and Print Services for NetWare, which is, for all
intents and purposes, a NetWare emulator for NT Server--allowing NetWare
clients to connect, unchanged, to the NT Server.

Explanation of NT Server's NetWare migration and integration features.
http://www.microsoft.com/ntserver/nts/exec/feature/NetwareServer.asp

File and Print Services for Netware ($149 NT add-on that lets NetWare
clients connect to NT unchanged).
http://www.microsoft.com/ntserver/nts/exec/feature/AddonServices.asp

rp


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