Hey y¹all. I don¹t use Novell, but I¹m curious about them. I find the website isn¹t the most enlightening source of information, at least for me, somebody who knows basically nothing about them. I¹d like to know what, and if, people are using them for, and in what ways my life could be better if only I knew what I was missing...
There was a time (over a decade ago), when Novell (Netware) was synonymous to all the things that are now synonymous with Active Directory. That is User management, security, single sign on, etc. But obviously the cross-platform capabilities of AD are somewhat limited, and I wonder if there¹s a newer implementation of something that would be a suitable alternative. If you wanted something like AD that works equally well for Windows, Mac, and Linux (and possibly others) is that a complete unreality? I am aware of such things as Kerberos and LDAP of course. But using Kerb / LDAP, you couldn¹t for example easily join a Mac or Linux laptop to a domain, login once, and expect your laptop to continue working even after you¹ve taken it away, outside the network. Am I off track? Anyone care to share their experiences?
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