Cost Effective TCP/IP Services for UNIX Connectivity
SAN JOSE, California -- May 11, 1992 -- Novell, Inc. today announced NetWare FLeX/IP, a product that meets the need of users to share printers cost effectively across NetWare and UNIX environments. In addition to its full-featured, bidirectional print gateway, NetWare FLeX/IP also provides FTP file transfer services and an X Window System console utility for remote NetWare server management.
"This product has actually been defined by customers who have benefited from integrating their NetWare and UNIX file systems through NetWare NFS, and are now asking for a cost-effective way to integrate their NetWare and UNIX printers over large numbers of servers throughout their organizations," said Bob Davis, director of marketing for Novell's UNIX connectivity products. "We believe that by expanding the range of products addressing mixed UNIX and NetWare environments, Novell will facilitate the growth of enterprise networks based on these technologies."
Implemented as a set of NetWare Loadable Modules (NLMs) loaded on a NetWare server, NetWare FLeX/IP requires no additional software on the UNIX systems. It allows UNIX users to access NetWare resources from their native UNIX environment.
Bidirectional Print Gateway
The bidirectional print gateway allows UNIX users to access printers attached to NetWare systems and NetWare users to access printers that are attached to UNIX systems. NetWare users are able to use standard NetWare print utilities to access the printer on the UNIX systems. The UNIX printer will appear to the user as a normal NetWare print queue, while the NetWare queues will appear as UNIX print queues to the UNIX user. In addition, the UNIX print filter mechanism is supported enabling print
jobs to be preprocessed before submission to the printer device.
FTP Server
The high-performance FTP server allows UNIX users to transfer files to and from NetWare v3.11 servers on the network. It also enables FTP clients to use the NetWare v3.11 server as an FTP gateway to access any other NetWare server on the network, including those that do not support TCP/IP. The FTP server provides full support of both UNIX/NFS and DOS name spaces. Users can choose their preferred view of the file system and toggle this view at will.
Remote X Console
The X11 remote console allows network administrators to manage NetWare v3.11 servers from any X Window System. The XCONSOLE is a NetWare Loadable Module that displays NetWare v3.11
console screens using X Windows on a remote UNIX workstation. The UNIX administrator benefits by having the ability to install, configure and troubleshoot NetWare v3.11 servers using their native UNIX-based graphical user interface. The XCONSOLE provides additional management functionality by allowing multiple NetWare management screens to be displayed at one time from multiple NetWare servers.
Pricing and Availability
NetWare FLeX/IP will begin shipping by the end of May. It will be priced at $1,995. NetWare FLeX/IP will be available through certified Novell Gold and Platinum resellers.
Novell Inc. (NASDAQ: NOVL) is an operating system software company, the developer of network services, specialized and general purpose operating system software products including NetWare, DR DOS, DR Multiuser DOS and FlexOS. Novell's NetWare network computing products manage and control the sharing of services, data and applications among computer workgroups, departmental networks and business-wide information systems.
