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Netware 4.x Issues

Many people ask me if MarxMenu talks to Directory Services and the short answer is NO. It's not that I don't want to, but Novell does not have and assembler interface into directory services.

I have bitterly and publicly complained to Novell about this issue, and their response is that DOS is dead and no one is using it anymore. My response to that is, if you're running DOS, don't buy Netware 4.X.

After 4 years of waiting on Novell, my protests continue. I have started the "Yep! it runs with Netware 4 (Un Huh, Sure Does) web page to further pressure Novell into fixing their product. You can visit my web site to get all the details.

For those of you who are still unhappy, I urge you to complain loudly and bitterly to Novell about this issue.

However, MarxMenu does work with Netware 4.x using bindery emulation. In fact, using the MarxMenu bindery services, MarxMenu can read and write many of the Netware 4.x objects. But it only works with some of them. For the brave and the foolish, try running the BindDump utility on Netware 4 and you'll get an idea what you can fool with.

In order to make MarxMenu work you have to make sure that the bindery context is set properly to include the areas where both users and groups are defined. You can define up to 16 bindery context areas.

Example:

   set Bindery Context = O=CTYME

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