Hard drive space is a precious commodity. You can't afford the wasted space that eventually builds up on your hard drives--especially your NetWare drives. If you're interested in reclaiming some valuable disk space, check out Space Hound 32, a professionally designed and developed multipurpose Windows utility program. Space Hound "sniffs out" duplicated, obsolete, or simply forgotten files on your hard drive. You'll find a special edition of Space Hound32 for use on Novell Networks. For more information on this disk management tool, visit the following Web site:

http://www.novellshareware.com/

How would you like a tool that lets you search deleted or open files and monitor volume storage and usage? In addition, the same tool allows you to view bindery, connections, servers, and queues. What about performing tasks such as downing the server, setting time synch, and controlling logins? You'll find all of these features, plus a few others in RK NetPlus v2.5.4 NetWare File Management & Server Monitor, a shareware utility available from the following Web site:

http://www.novellshareware.com/

Looking for a good auditing tool that tracks login/logout activity? If so, you should check out AUDITV2, a shareware utility created by David Condrey. This tool is an NLM that monitors server connections, writing
easy to manipulate log files for your viewing pleasure. The tool can even periodically send log files to a single server running the consolidation (CONSLDAT) NLM, compiling the activity for all servers into one set of chronologically sorted logs for your entire network. For more information and to download the tool, visit the following Web site:

http://www.novellshareware.com/

Need a quick way to find out which connection is causing performance problems or hogging disk space? If so, check out this shareware utility--UGadget V1.0 from NetTech Australia. This tool displays a
full list of all connections used on a server, including the number of requests and bytes read and written. You can also view information about messages sent to users and connections cleared. For more
information on this monitoring tool, visit the following Web site:

http://www.novellshareware.com/

Did you make the jump to Novell's NetWare version 5? If so, you'll be interested in obtaining the first Support Pack for the product. Novell recently released a comprehensive package of enhancements and fixes in the file NW5SP1.EXE, available for download from the Novell Web site. This support pack addresses several known bugs and enhances a wealth of NetWare 5's features. You can get more information on the Support Pack and download the self-extracting file from the Novell Web site at

http://support.novell.com/misc/patlst.htm

If you're running NetWare 3.12, you need to apply a patch to ensure Year 2000 compliance. As you may know, some hardware and software is not designed to handle the change to the date 2000; lack of Year 2000 compliance can cause many problems. If you use NetWare 3.12, you can avoid future problems by applying the file updates found in 312y2kp2.exe. You can find this update on the Novell Web site at http://support.novell.com. This self-extracting file contains updates to the following files and corrects the problems listed:

listdir.exe:  The date does not display correctly with the /D and /T options.
loader.exe: The file server could abend (stop) at the year 2000 rollover to 1/1/2000. The BIOS clock would also be reset to the year 1980.
mnu.ovl: The date does not display correctly after the year 2000.
paudit.exe and net_rec.dat: The year does not display correctly for years greater than 1999.
pserver.exe: The banner page prints the year as 19200 instead of 2000.
pserver.nlm: The banner page prints the year as 19200 instead of 2000.
rconsole.exe: When selecting the directory scan option, the year as indicated by the file creation date displays as 100 instead of 00, 134 instead of 34, and so on.
sbackup.nlm: When the system time is set to the year 2000 or later, the year does not display correctly in the session files; it adds 28 years to the last two digits of the year (for example, 2007 becomes 2035).
session.exe: The log-in time displays incorrectly for the year 2028 and beyond.

 

Novell recently released a patch kit for its NetWare, version 4.10 product. This kit contains corrected and updated files that address several known problems you may experience with NetWare 4.10. These include a potential conflict caused by the Y2K bug fix from Novell and a patch for the SFT3 MS engine, NLM. You can download this patch kit from the following address:

http://support.novell.com/cgi-bin/search/getfile?header=yes&file=/pub/updates/nwos/sft410/410pt8b.exe