NetWare to Windows NT Complete: Integration and Migration

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For many years, Novell NetWare ruled the roost in terms of small network operating systems, but now it's facing serious competition from Windows NT. As new equipment slowly replaces old, many organizations are attempting to make Windows NT and NetWare work together. In NetWare to NT Complete: Integration and Migration, Villenueve and McKinnon explain how the two systems can be made to inter-operate smoothly.

The authors begin by comparing Windows NT and NetWare. Next, they guide the reader through an analysis of the costs and benefits of migrating all or part of a network from NetWare to Windows NT. The authors then begin their technical comparison of the two systems with the protocols that they use to communicate data--IPX/SPX, NetBEUI, TCP/IP, NCP, NetWare IP, and (cursorily) a dozen other protocols. After that, they explain how to get workstations of various kinds to talk to disparate servers; for example, how to get a NetWare node to talk to a Windows NT file server. Logically enough, Villenueve and McKinnon then address server heterogeneity--networks with some servers running Windows NT and other servers running NetWare. The authors pay a lot of attention to Samba, a Windows NT emulator for NetWare. Villenueve and McKinnon conclude with discussion of the management issues involved in migration by outlining specific migration problems and proposing a plan for handling them.

Although the text is not as streamlined as it might be, it is precise and readable. Unfortunately, the conceptual diagrams and many of the screen shots are often small, grainy, and hard to read. The accompanying CD-ROM contains Samba and a bunch of documentation. --David Wall

Book Description
Integrating Windows NT workstation clients into NetWare networks? NetWare clients into Windows NT Server environments? DOS, Windows for Workgroups, or Windows 95 into networks with either (or both) network operating systems? These migrations are taking place at legions of corporations, and this is the authoritative book that charts the paths. Readers will turn to it for: an unbiased view of the pros and cons of Novell NetWare 3.x/4.x and Microsoft NT networks; clear, comprehensive knowledge of each tool available for internetworking these two systems within a corporate network environment; in-depth guidance through the Novell Netware to Windows NT migration process, with coverage of the several new Windows NT tools designed to integration-including Client Services, Gateway Services, Migration Tool, File and Print Services, and Directory Services for NetWare.

Synopsis
For anyone integrating Windows NT workstation clients into NetWare networks, this authoritative book provides practical procedural flowcharts and forms, as well as step-by-step instructions and numerous examples. The CD-ROM offers an array of helpful tools.

Synopsis
This book is for anyone integrating Windows NT Server and NetWare networks. This authoritative book provides practical procedural flowcharts, forms, tools, as well as step-by-step instructions and numerous examples for integration and migration. It also covers support for Windows 95 and Windows NT clients in both environments. The CD offers an array of helpful tools from Novell, Microsoft and third parties. You will find answers to frequently asked questions about Windows NT and NetWare; electronic version of the book's charts and forms; a network communication protocol reference database; and much more.

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