In <[log in to unmask]> Phil ESGUERRA
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>I know that Netware (Novell) is now available on the HP3000.
 
>Does anyone who has installed Netware on the HP3000 care to comment on the
>advantages and advantages of moving into Netware/3000?
 
We run netware 3.01 on a 967 with MPE 4.0.  With MPE 5.0 (and maybe 4.5?) you
get netware 3.11 on top of posix, which I don't know about.
 
In my experience, there are good things and bad things about having netware on
the same box.  :-)
 
Good things:
HP support (although it's not as good as for MPE)
Sharing printers between MPE and PC's
There is very little to configure with netware on MPE vs netware on a PC.
Netware on MPE seems more stable to me.
 
Bad things:
No NLMs
Netware sometimes grabs a significant percent of the cpu (deleting
subdirectories with large number of files, for example.)
When the HP is down, everything is down.
Control of print queues doesn't work well--it all ends up in the MPE spooler
where you can't tell who belongs to what.
 
If I had to do it again, I'd be torn which way I'd go.  I think if you need
very stable, with little netware expertise required, I'd put it on the HP.  If
you want a little more flash and excitement (and more options) I'd go PC.
 
Chris
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