System information

under NetWare does not use a graphical user interface, because native NetWare
4.1 does not support it. The installation process is simply in a text mode only. It
still gives you the full functionality of installing and configuring the NetFinity
services. At the end of the installation process you will also be asked for the
configuration information such as network protocols, names and keywords. You
can define them on this text mode screen or you change your configuration later
from your managers workstation using the remote system manager service.
4.2 Functions and Differences
Most of the TME 10 NetFinity Services are identical on all client platforms. There
are only a few exceptions from this. The major difference from a functionality
point of view is within the Monitor service of NetFinity. These differences can be
seen in a table later on in this chapter. See 4.3, “Summary” on page 119 for
details. For more information on the other functions, have a look at the following
sections, where we show the functional differences, if there are any, for each
client operating system. These differences are compared to the functions
supported by a Windows NT client.
4.2.1 Windows 95 and Windows 3.11
Services under Windows 95 and Windows 3.11 have full functionality without any
limitations. Only within the monitor services are there some differences, which
you can see in 4.3, “Summary” on page 119. All other services are identical to
those running under NT.
4.2.2 OS/2 Warp
OS/2 Warp does not have any limitations within the functionality compared to
Windows NT. It also does not matter if there is LAN server/requester software
installed or not. The only difference between running LAN server software and
not running it, from the NetFinity point of view is in the monitoring service. In the
summary at the end of this chapter you can see the details about the monitoring
differences.
4.2.3 NetWare
Under NetWare there is only the NetFinity Services product and not the manager
available. So the NetWare server is only used as a client for NetFinity and not as
a managing workstation. You cannot use the NetFinity services locally on the
NetWare servers, because you don′t have any graphical user interface supported
on NetWare servers. You need the GUI to control the NetFinity services. From a
managing workstation you can access the NetWare server using NetFinity
services without any limitations. The amount of information you receive depends
on the other operating system of the hardware architecture.
A difference between the NT client and the NetWare client is related to the
NetWare architecture. Normally you have a small DOS partition which is used to
boot from and to load the server software. Once the NetWare server software is
loaded, you should not have access to the DOS partitions. With the critical file
monitoring service you are able to monitor the possible access to the DOS
partitions and its files.
In addition, there is no File Transfer Service available from and to a NetWare
server.
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