paul_venezia
Senior Contributing Editor

Getting here from there

analysis
Mar 20, 20031 min

Had the pleasure of building a Citrix farm in an NDS world today. Perhaps someone can explain to me why it's necessary for a user to remember huge X.400 ID's like .myusername.mycontext.mywhatever.mycompanyname to login to an NDS environment that doesn't have contextless logins, or with a tree that's too large... especially since most installed versions of NDS can't handle more than 48 char distinguished names. I

Had the pleasure of building a Citrix farm in an NDS world today. Perhaps someone can explain to me why it’s necessary for a user to remember huge X.400 ID’s like .myusername.mycontext.mywhatever.mycompanyname to login to an NDS environment that doesn’t have contextless logins, or with a tree that’s too large… especially since most installed versions of NDS can’t handle more than 48 char distinguished names. I’ve always considered Novell to be the little brother of everything that’s come along since they blew it with 802.3 and faded almost to extinction because they didn’t see the Microsoft juggernaut blowing past them. With the overhead of running an all-Novell infrastructure, I wonder where they see their revenue stream in five years…