Administering the Login Process


This section teaches you how to ensure that the GroupWise client can get the necessary login parameters through Novell Directory Services or the DNS. This section also discusses Registry entries to "push" to workstations, should you happen to be using a tool such as Novell ZENworks.

Configuring eDirectory

All users of a GroupWise post office should have browse, read, and compare rights to the post office object itself, as well as to the POA associated with that post office. (However, if you are using LDAP authentication, your users do not need these rights.) For simplicity, assign the rights to the post office object, and the POA object to the OU or OUs in which the users for the post office reside.

The following steps provide you with the tools to verify access modes and IP addresses when configuring eDirectory:

1.

Open the Post Office Settings page for the post office object associated with the users whose GroupWise login you are administering. The Post Office Settings property page for a post office object allows you to check on the access mode, among other things.

2.

Verify that the Access Mode field reads Client/Server Only and not Client/Server and Direct. Client/server access to mailboxes is much preferred over direct access.

3.

Verify that the UNC path to this post office is correct on the Identification property page. This is not a big issue if you are running in client/server mode, but it is still good to be accurate here.

4.

Make sure that Disable Logins is not checked. This option should be checked only if, for some reason, you want to keep users out of their mailboxes temporarily.

5.

Close the details for the PO.

6.

Open the Identification property page for the POA associated with this PO.

7.

Go to the TCP/IP Address field and verify that the TCP/IP address and port are accurate.

Tip

For NetWare, you might need to go to the server console and type CONFIG to view the actual IP address of the server. At a Linux server in a terminal session, you would type the command IFCONFIG. From NT/2000, you can open a DOS window and type IPCONFIG to get the IP address of the NT/2000 server.

8.

Close the POA object.

In these eight steps, you have accomplished two tasks:

  • You ensured that the GroupWise client can get login parameters from eDirectory.

  • You ensured that those parameters are accurate.

Tip

You can easily display the IP address and port for each POA object in the system by adding these columns to the POA view. Simply highlight a POA object, and then go to Tools, Edit Columns. From there, you can add columns that apply to the POA object. Select the IP address and port, and you will see every IP address and port for all your POA objects in the GroupWise system. You can also do the same thing for the UNC path. You must have the post office object highlighted when adding columns for the UNC path.


Configuring DNS

Now you need to choose a POA, preferably one that is centrally located on the LAN, to serve as the NGWNAMESERVER agent. On very large systems, it might be advisable to create a dummy post office (no users) with a POA dedicated to NGWNAMESERVER redirection. This is accomplished by following these steps:

1.

Make sure that this POA is listening on port 1677. This is done from the Network Address field of the POA's Agent Settings property page.

2.

Create a DNS record on your domain name server. This server is not part of the GroupWise system and can be on almost any server platform, including NetWare 4, 5, or 6, Windows server platforms, or any flavor of UNIX or Linux.

3.

In your DNS server, enter the hostname as NGWNAMESERVER.

4.

Enter the IP address of the POA that you chose to act as NGWNAMESERVER.

In these four steps, you have ensured that any GroupWise client that looks for NGWNAMESERVER on your system will find a POA at the IP address specified. That POA will then redirect the client to the correct POA for connection to the user's mailbox.



NOVELL GroupWise 7 Administrator Solutions Guide
Novell GroupWise 7 Administrator Solutions Guide
ISBN: 0672327880
EAN: 2147483647
Year: 2003
Pages: 320
Authors: Tay Kratzer

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