I’m not sure whether I’m asking the question correctly, but I’ve been told SQL Server cannot run on a Novell server. Is this true? If yes, why not?
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I’m not sure whether I’m asking the question correctly, but I’ve been told SQL Server cannot run on a Novell server. Is this true? If yes, why not?
NOW I see your problem! Sorry dude!
Yes, VERY easy. Kinda.
SQL Server used to be able to talk IPX (the netware protocol) but I think Netware will now talk TCPIP, and you can run IPX and TCP/IP on the same network without an issue – windows clients can run both at the same time, 99% of routers handle all protocols etc.
Windows (XP/2003/etc) can run the netware client, so it can talk to shares etc.
Use the SQL Server logins (rather than windows integrated logins), and it’ll work from anything – we have Java on Linux talking to SQL Server on windows just fine 🙂 It’s all in the connection string: userid=username;pwd=whatever;server=yourserverhere; etc. But you MUST use the SQL Server Configuration Manager to set these up – the default is shared memory, so you have to enable TCPIP etc.