* Some popular and useful 'missing utilities' for NetWare
Wolfgang Schreiber has been a part of Novell’s Worldwide Developer Support in Germany for many years. He’s helped many a developer understand how best to tackle a programming problem using Novell technologies. But what he’s really known for are the many utilities he’s written (on his own time) over the years that make a NetWare network manager’s – and a user’s – job much easier. He’s provided the “missing utilities,” as they’re called – the things you wish Novell had included, but didn’t. You may have some of these utilities on your network and weren’t aware that they were not originally supplied by Novell. Among the more popular and useful ones are:
* Quick for NDS – Command line utility to access NDS from the DOS prompt or from a batch file.
* DSReport: NDS Report Generator – Browses NDS object attributes, generates NDS reports.
* GWSend – Sends GroupWise messages from Command Line or Batch File.
* DSSec.exe: Report NDS Security Issues – Creates reports on users who have no passwords, insecure password restrictions, or excessive rights.
* NDS Partition Check 1.20b – Analyzes partitions and replica rings for corruption.
* Display Trustee Assignments – Scans one or more NetWare directories for trustees.
* SelPurge – Selectively purges deleted files.
* Update – Windows Utility to replace XCopy/NCopy.
* KeyFake -NLM to push characters into file server keyboard buffer.
* ConsoleOne Booster – Selects ConsoleOne SnapIns at Startup.
* Lrights – Assigns trustee rights to files or directories.
* EDirCheck – Retrieves information on partitions and replicas.
* Schema LDIF Exporter: SchExp – Exports selected classes and/or attributes.
KeyFake was a lifesaver for NetWare 3 and maintains its usefulness 15 years later. I used Quick for NDS on my NetWare 4.1 networks 10 years ago, but the latest version was released only last summer and supports everything up through NetWare 6.x. The others are just as useful.
Some of these are freeware, some are shareware and some are commercial products. Full working versions of all of them (although some are only evaluation copies) can be found at https://www.geocities.com/wstools/ or you can get further information through the Novell NetWare cool solutions Web site (https://www.novell.com/coolsolutions/tools/bypublisher.html scroll down to “Wolfgang”).
I often mention what utilities I believe you should add to your tool kit. This collection, though, constitutes an almost complete tool kit. The one you can add one or two other utilities to. Think of them as an early Christmas present to yourself.
