Groupwise 7 Documentation:
http://www.novell.com/documentation/gw7/gw7_admin/index.html?page=/documentation/gw7/gw7_admin/data/bqpw8ct.html 

A link to a cool solutions article for adding dbcopy script to te crontab:
http://www.novell.com/communities/node/2611/incremental-groupwise-database-backups

A Novell forum post on dbcopy I found helpful:
http://forums.novell.com/novell-product-support-forums/groupwise/groupwise-7x/gw7-install-setup-admin/108420-dbcopy-cron-oes-linux.html#post443320

Pretty basic info on associative arrays:
http://www.novell.com/communities/node/3144/build-your-own-scripts-manipulate-ldif-exports-part-1

WHO knew there is an LDAP console
http://www.novell.com/communities/node/2876/ldap-console

This guy has some good posts:
http://www.novell.com/communities/user/3740/track

groupwise 7.01 one Suse 9 the gwdva randomly crashes or begins using 99% system utilization, and also renders web access non functional. users attempt to login and receive an error stating unable to communicate with GroupWise WebAccess Agent.

 Restarting the gwdva temporarily elevates the problem.

Stop gwdva with the following:

/opt/novell/groupwise/agents/bin/grpwise stop gwdva.groupwise

 Start gwdva with the following:

/opt/novell/groupwise/agents/bin/grpwise start gwdva.groupwise

When installing iPrint printers was recieving error code 5.

Here is an old tid on this.
10076065

This is an old TID that talks about fixing this problem with Netware 5 and 6.5. The solution still applies but the iprint.ini file on a linux OES server is located in /var/opt/novell/iprint/htdocs

Changed AllowUserPrinters to 1 default is 0 which will require the user to have rights on the local computer. 1 tries to install as workstation printer, if not it installs it as a user printer, 2 just installs as user printer

I have not found anywhere in the novell documentation (honestly I haven’t looked very hard) yet but apparently when using Universal Password, and configuring Groupwise to authenticate using LDAP it uses two concurrent logins.

 So in other words in this configuration if you limit concurrent logins to 1 your users cannot login to both EDirectory and Groupwise at the same time. GWIA will give you a wonderful error:53 which according to the TID I saw leads you to beleive the users password is expired, and I do suppose that LDAP returns the same error code for expired and concurrent logins? MAYBE??

Not that it’s a huge deal but so much for limiting your users to kly logging into one comptuer at a time. Well they are limited to two now! NICE!

Ahhhh the fun of importing users into eDirectory what a lovely chore it is!!!

 Here are some links…..

This is an old article from 2004 about LDIF
http://www.novell.com/coolsolutions/tip/5872.html
    This method works but no way to create groupwsie accounts.

This is a newer article from Jan, 07 about  GW import utility it works well but apparently does not set an edirectory password. Perhapes with the password policy we have I can leave the password blank and expire it and it will prompt the users for one when they first login? Not sure if that’s a good idea or not.
http://www.novell.com/coolsolutions/tools/18543.html

Why is 800×600 the highest resolution I can select inside of KDE on my VMWare servers?

OH how I miss pressing alt+esc and cycling through the various services. Anyhow this post is mainly for my own info. If it helps someone else great. Yea I know they are standard *nix commands.

Anyhow instead of alt-esc it’s the ps command…..

Link to the wiki http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ps_%28Unix%29 it reads much better and clearer then the man page.

Note that most Novell processes seem to start with novell-”whatever” so a {ps -elf |grep novell} should only show novell processes.

Do not use the old cxlog registry edit for contextless login anymore. Use LDAP contextless login instead.

Go to Novell client properties.
Select LDAP Contextless Login Tab.
Click Enable LDAP Treeless Login and Contextless Login.
Add clog to the servers field click add.
Click Settings.
Enable search on Given Name, Surname, etc. etc.

For the person that asked CLOG is a DNS entry that points to our eDirectory server. That server is set up to allow anonymous browsing of a few fields and a few containers. Not sure thats the right way to do it but it works.

Then have a nice day!