I was going to reply essentially the same thing! I’m glad someone remembers their IT history. :)
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Brkdncr@lemmy.world 20 hours agoNovell solved directory services 25 years ago. It took MS 10 to catch up.
Cricket@lemmy.zip 18 hours ago
zod000@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 hours ago
“IT history” :(
Oh, well, time to go back to my crypt.
Cricket@lemmy.zip 4 hours ago
Haha, recent IT history. :)
LordCrom@lemmy.world 19 hours ago
Well remember netware had a 250 user limit per server before 4.0. Thats not alot in corp space. I remember running many servers just to handle user auth and logon back with netware 3.12
Brkdncr@lemmy.world 18 hours ago
Wasn’t 4 still a flat directory? I’m talking about 5 when it got serious.
LordCrom@lemmy.world 1 hour ago
Its been like 3 decades… bit i thought ver 4 introduced the bindery which removed the per server user limit… i moved into networking about that time so im not sure. WindowsNT hadnt been released yet i remember.
flowers_galore2@lemmynsfw.com 20 hours ago
You mean Novell royally fucked up Netware and people went to AD at first because of that. But yes, AD was quite new then, mostly an add-on for NT domains (and still sort of is :) try going full kerberos…).
Brkdncr@lemmy.world 18 hours ago
How did Novell mess up netware? If anything Novell should have teamed up with IBM or Apple to take on end user productivity.
flowers_galore2@lemmynsfw.com 2 hours ago
Netware 4 was utter garbage. It was horribly buggy if you got it to install. Admins hated it, and then win2k peeped around the corner.
flowers_galore2@lemmynsfw.com 2 hours ago
Also, IBM was still big on mainframes and PCs, and OS/2 of course, and hadn’t really that much interest in Netware or Windows then (outsourcing deals aside). Apple was even way farther away from that, completely on their own OS and Appletalk, directories were not really useful for their users then.