[aklug] Re: Edirectory

Not in a very long time since it was called Novel Directory Services.
A decade ago, my former coworkers laughed at active directory as it was 70x
as bloated. I am astonished it won! It was so supperior but it was not from
Microsoft so people were afraid to use it. I do admit we used old 10 meg
ethernet and not 100 meg. 10 meg was the norm back then before active
directory forced companies to upgrade as eDirectory Services could handle
that fine and not try to replicate itself to death.

Replication was not an issue with NDS/Eds and that was the biggest deal with
active directory. However, I have been out of the loop for a long time and
things change over 8 or 9 years. The market choose Microsoft.

Novel tried to have pure tcp/ip rather than bloat netbios and active
directory SMB encapsulated in its protocol. I wonder how eDirectory works
today? Maybe Novel servers uses different packet protocols for it.

Linux/Unix helped kill Novels product by evangelising Samba. Ugh. If an open
source equilivant for Novel/Edirectory services existed then it would be
more used today.

Novel eDirectory had quota management, bandwidth management, and times
people could print and log in and out of services. This is something
Microsoft lacked and still lacks in many areas.

On Fri, Jul 2, 2010 at 2:32 PM, Damien <damien@linuxninjas.tv> wrote:

> Has anyone used edirectory? I was told novell makes it. Supposed to be
> bette=
> r then active directory. Or so I was told.=20
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