This chapter contains general information about NetWare® 6.
NOTE: Many product issues have been resolved in the Support Pack 1 release of NetWare 6. We encourage you to update your network to the latest Support Pack.
For information about additional issues discovered after the release, see the Novell® Support Knowlegebase and enter TID #10064501.
The NetWare 6 package consists of the following:
NOTE: We welcome your feedback about the completeness, accuracy, and accessibility of the NetWare 6 documentation. Please send your comments to webdoc@novell.com with NetWare 6 in the subject line.
The following core NetWare 6 components are MP-enabled:
All other NetWare 6 components included with this release function in an MP environment.
The following Novell products are compatible with NetWare 6:
If you install Novell Single Sign-on to a NetWare 6 server that is not an SD Key Server and you select No when prompted to make the server an SD Key Server, you may see messages indicating that Novell Single Sign-on did not successfully install. The messages and entries in the log file (sys:system\sssi.log) falsely indicate that the SD Key Client and Secret Store Service were not installed successfully. Despite these messages, SSS.NLM is correctly installed, the schema is extended, and Novell Single Sign-On should function properly in the tree.
There are some compatibility issues using NetWare 6 with ZENworks for Servers 2. For an explanation of the issues and their resolution, see the ZENworks for Servers 2 online documentation.
If you are upgrading from a previous version of NetWare, your INITSYS files might need to be edited to remove WAN components that are autoloaded.
This functionality is now provided by the Tomcat servlet engine.
This has been replaced by the Tomcat servlet engine. If you are using a previous version of WebSphere on NetWare, you can use the WebSphere-to-Tomcat migration utility included with NetWare 6. For instructions on using the utility, see Migrating from WebSphere to Tomcat in Getting Results with Novell Web Services.
During an upgrade from a NetWare 5.1 server, these products are removed without warning.
Many DOS utilities have been removed from NetWare 6. The following utilities are still included for your convenience, but they are not supported: