MAS90 on Linux

The accounting application MAS90 is built to run on Netware; does that mean
I should be able to get it to run on SLES? If the vendor doesn't support
the platform should I give up the idea of running it there? It seems to be
a file cabinet app with no DB engine.

Comments, please.

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Paul Gray <pgray@satx.rr.com> wrote:
> The accounting application MAS90 is built to run on Netware; does that mean
> I should be able to get it to run on SLES?

No. Netware and SLES are fundamentally different platforms. While (mostly)
the same services are available for OES/Netware and OES/Linux, that does not
mean you can run applications built for one on the other.

> If the vendor doesn't support the platform should I give up the idea of
> running it there?

It depends on your requirements; in some scenario's it could be acceptable
for instance to run a Netware application on Netware inside a VMware
virtual machine on a SLES system.

HTH,
--
Ray Dassen
Technical Support Engineer, EMEA Services Center, Novell Technical Services
Novell, Inc. Software for the Open Enterprise http://www.novell.com/open

Can't find the other newsgroup the reply is set to point to.
Here's my situation:

I am trying to avoid paying for a pricey Microsoft server OS to run a file
cabinet application like MAS90. It's running on NT4 now but I'd like to
retire that. The technical parameters to run it on Netware are pretty
lenient--basically just a Novell client and a drive mapping to the server
where it's located.

Since Best Software claims they won't even support running on Netware if I
use a Citrix server to connect to it, I'm feeling like I'll be on my own
pretty much any way I go unless I put my tail between my legs and go
slinking back to MS. So, I could go with Netware, but I'm thinking it ought
to work just as well with Linux since I can use a Novell client and map a
drive just like Netware. Since there's no engine involved and the
processing occurs at the workstation, isn't it just a matter of network
protocols?

While it's interesting to ponder the VMware suggestion, I'd probably be
better off using straight Netware rather than Netware from within Linux,
don't you think?

I guess I'm just trying to see which gamble (if any) people think is worth
it.

Thanks.



"J.H.M. Dassen (Ray)" <no@email.sorry> wrote in message
news:slrndn1g1s.ip7.no@tapir.cpl.novell.com...
> [Followup-To set to more appropriate forum]
>
> Paul Gray <pgray@satx.rr.com> wrote:
>> The accounting application MAS90 is built to run on Netware; does that
>> mean
>> I should be able to get it to run on SLES?
>
> No. Netware and SLES are fundamentally different platforms. While (mostly)
> the same services are available for OES/Netware and OES/Linux, that does
> not
> mean you can run applications built for one on the other.
>
>> If the vendor doesn't support the platform should I give up the idea of
>> running it there?
>
> It depends on your requirements; in some scenario's it could be acceptable
> for instance to run a Netware application on Netware inside a VMware
> virtual machine on a SLES system.
>
> HTH,
> --
> Ray Dassen
> Technical Support Engineer, EMEA Services Center, Novell Technical
> Services
> Novell, Inc. Software for the Open Enterprise
> http://www.novell.com/open

On Tue, 08 Nov 2005 22:24:51 +0000, Paul Gray wrote:

> Can't find the other newsgroup the reply is set to point to.
> Here's my situation:
>
> I am trying to avoid paying for a pricey Microsoft server OS to run a file
> cabinet application like MAS90. It's running on NT4 now but I'd like to
> retire that. The technical parameters to run it on Netware are pretty
> lenient--basically just a Novell client and a drive mapping to the server
> where it's located.
>
> Since Best Software claims they won't even support running on Netware if I
> use a Citrix server to connect to it, I'm feeling like I'll be on my own
> pretty much any way I go unless I put my tail between my legs and go
> slinking back to MS. So, I could go with Netware, but I'm thinking it
> ought to work just as well with Linux since I can use a Novell client and
> map a drive just like Netware. Since there's no engine involved and the
> processing occurs at the workstation, isn't it just a matter of network
> protocols?
>
> While it's interesting to ponder the VMware suggestion, I'd probably be
> better off using straight Netware rather than Netware from within Linux,
> don't you think?
>
> I guess I'm just trying to see which gamble (if any) people think is worth
> it.
>
> Thanks.
>
>
>
> "J.H.M. Dassen (Ray)" <no@email.sorry> wrote in message
> news:slrndn1g1s.ip7.no@tapir.cpl.novell.com...
>> [Followup-To set to more appropriate forum]
>>
>> Paul Gray <pgray@satx.rr.com> wrote:
>>> The accounting application MAS90 is built to run on Netware; does that
>>> mean
>>> I should be able to get it to run on SLES?
>>
>> No. Netware and SLES are fundamentally different platforms. While
>> (mostly) the same services are available for OES/Netware and OES/Linux,
>> that does not
>> mean you can run applications built for one on the other.
>>
>>> If the vendor doesn't support the platform should I give up the idea of
>>> running it there?
>>
>> It depends on your requirements; in some scenario's it could be
>> acceptable for instance to run a Netware application on Netware inside a
>> VMware virtual machine on a SLES system.
>>
>> HTH,
>> --
>> Ray Dassen
>> Technical Support Engineer, EMEA Services Center, Novell Technical
>> Services
>> Novell, Inc. Software for the Open Enterprise
>> http://www.novell.com/open

MAS90 does indeed work with Novell's OES SP1 (linux edition).

We set this up for a client that had a Netware 4.11 server die.

I have to stress that it is not supported. We simply created an NSS
volume on the OES server and ran the app from a drive mapping. It has
no server-side processing.

We did have to make sure that the novell client was set to "no client side
file caching" and disabled all op-locks.

It would probably work with a plain SLES install too as opposed to
Novell's OES edition. You wouldn't be able to use the novell client
becuase I think you need OES to run NCP or NSS on SLES but you could
connect to it through CIFS from a windows box just fine though.

-Matt