Novell CLIENT FOR LINUX 2.0 SP1 - 08-2008, User Manual

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Page 5: ...rk Directories 13 1 7 Disconnecting a Mapped Directory 14 1 8 Editing Your Login Script 14 1 9 Configuring the Novell Client 15 1 10 Viewing Novell Client Version Information 15 2 Using Novell Utiliti...

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Page 9: ...t openSUSE 10 2 32 bit and 64 bit For information on installing the Novell Client for Linux see the Novell Client 2 SP1 for Linux Installation Quick Start This section contains the following informati...

Page 10: ...y KDE Click the menu button Novell Tray Enter the following command in a terminal window opt novell ncl bin ncl_tray 1 2 Logging In to the Network When you log in to the network you gain access to dir...

Page 11: ...age 11 7 Optional To configure integrated login click the Startup tab make sure the Run Novell Client Login at Session Startup is selected it is selected by default then click Save profile after succe...

Page 12: ...g connections click Novell Logout Logout If you are logged in to multiple trees and want to log out of a specific server or tree click Novell Connections select the tree or server that you want to log...

Page 13: ...d 5 Click OK 1 6 Mapping Network Directories When you map a directory you create a symbolic link or shortcut to a path on the network and assign it a name and location on your workstation After the dr...

Page 14: ...ccnt mycompany You can also click the Browse button and locate the directory you want to map 5 Optional To reestablish this drive mapping the next time you log in click Map this drive at startup 6 Cli...

Page 15: ...settings you want to configure then click Start Wizard 4 Follow the instructions in the left panel to configure the Novell Client settings 5 When you are finished click Finish 6 Conditional If you ma...

Page 16: ...age http www novell com products clients linux overview html from the About dialog box 1 Click About 2 Click the Packages tab to view information on the Novell Client for Linux packages that are loade...

Page 17: ...the System Console page 26 2 1 Assigning Rights to Volumes Files and Directories The Trustee Rights utility lets you display and give rights to volumes files and directories on a Novell server A trus...

Page 18: ...rants the right to add and remove trustees for directories and files and modify their trustee assignments and Inherited Rights Filters Supervisor Grants all rights to the directory or file and any sub...

Page 19: ...e in the list there is a set of eight check boxes one for each right that can be inherited If a check box is selected the trustee has that right The following rights can be set for each trustee Read F...

Page 20: ...ited Rights Filters and changed or revoked by lower trustee assignments The net result of all these actions the rights a user can employ are called effective rights 6 To view a trustee s properties su...

Page 21: ...u want to changed 5 To view the eDirectory rights associated with this object click the Novell Rights tab If you have Access Control rights and need to make changes to the Novell rights associated wit...

Page 22: ...f used and available disk space on the volume and information about the number of used and available directory entries on the volume The information you can view includes the following Disk Usage Grap...

Page 23: ...k Size Block size of the volume in kilobytes User Restriction Graph Amount of disk space you are using and the amount of remaining disk space that you can use Space Restriction is the disk space avail...

Page 24: ...n one of the following events occurs The Purge Delay setting times out Deleted files are purged automatically The server starts purging files if a volume starts to fill up the oldest files that have b...

Page 25: ...ies click Purge Subdirectories 5 Click Close 2 6 Sending Messages to Users Use the Send Message to User utility to send a simple message to users on the network You can send the message to a single us...

Page 26: ...essage Results dialog box shows which users or groups the message was sent to 6 Click OK then click Close 2 7 Sending Messages to the System Console Use the Send Message to System Console utility to s...

Page 27: ...ent changes made in this guide since the initial release of the Novell ClientTM for Linux The information will help you keep current on updates to the documentation The documentation was updated on th...