6/18/2023 0 Comments Novell netware operating systemIn 1998, NetWare 5 featured native TCP/IP and Java-based server apps, including a GUI on the server itself. NetWare didn’t die, but it started to fade away. It needed a skilled techie to wrestle it into submission, but as a cheap, secure firewall or Web server, it was unbeatable. Ubiquitous connection to the internet also brought Windows’ many security issues into sharp focus, but by the time of NetWare 4.11 and NT 4, another new server OS was becoming viable: Linux. Meanwhile, the World Wide Web was forcing a rapid adoption of Internet protocols, which NT handled natively but that were awkward bolt ons to NetWare. In July 1996, along came NT 4.0, which added the Windows 95 Explorer to NT.ĭomains quickly became a liability if you had lots of Windows servers, or a large, multi-site network, where NDS came into its own, but the battle was over.īy 1995, Windows NT was a capable server OS as well as a client, handling file and print and application services with equal facility. For a small network, NT was a much easier and more flexible server and there was no need to muck around with a network directory: for just a few servers on a single site, domains were much easier.
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