Routers and Novell Netware??

[Beno]

Hey every1,

Just wanted your advice on 2 things:

1.) If you install a home network with say 2 or more comp's then these connect to a hub which shares data and devices across the computers.
But how does each comp connect to the net.
Does each comp have its own modem or does it share one.
Also my lecturer at uni gave us a diagram with a home networking setup but it had a router in it pointing to the ISP. Router??? why in a home network - - does anybody know if and why we need a router for our home networks??

2.) Novell netware is a NOS.......but what better does it do over Win2K or WinNT.......why is it preferable to have Novell Netware on top of our normal running op.sys's in a busy small business network environment??

Thanks for all your help

Cheers

Beno http://www.PCGuide.com/ubb/smile.gif

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[sea69]

g'day m8

most likely you have no response on this because they are all wondering if this is a homework assignment or a real problem that you want help with.. http://www.PCGuide.com/ubb/eek.gif

in any event we would like more info, are you talking about modem dial up sharing on LAN, or cable/xdsl?? (also what OS's)

you will need NIC's in all machines... and or a router

** as for Novelle.. Im checking...but most likely someone here already knows all this.....



[This message has been edited by sea69 (edited 03-15-2001).]

[Ghost_Hacker]

There are plenty of whitepapers by both Microsoft and Novell that explain the pros/cons of both NT/2K and Netware (don't call it by it's company name http://www.PCGuide.com/ubb/smile.gif )


But for me the biggest advantage Netware has over NT/2K is it's directory service which is years ahead of Microsoft's Active directory. NDS ( as Netware's directory service is called) can run on many different platform not just the Netware NOS or ,with the addition of a Netware box, can even control an NT network. Active Directory as with most things made by MS only runs on 2K. Netware also has much better ACLs or what you might call "access right assignments" Netware for instance could always control how much space a user could use on a server's drives ( disk quotas).
Win2k just now has included disk quotas.

NT/Win2K biggest advantage has always been it's ability to run Microsoft apps like IIS and SQL. The NT family of servers are application servers first and foremost.


But don't take my word for it do a little research at both companies web sites.

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[kenja]

It's not a real router (D-Link calls it a gateway), but here (http://www.us.buy.com/retail/product.asp?sku=10249719&hdwt=30704&loc=14577) is what your prof is talking about.