[WinMac] Re: groupwise problems

Wesson Gaige(wes[at]gaiges.dallas.tx.us)
Sun, 19 Jul 1998 02:17:46 +0200

Norbert,

Novell is rather outspoken about its non-support of Macs. I don't think a
real update tot he Mac 5.x client is going to happen.

I suggest you try the following.

- You friend's Groupwise account needs a password. But it probably
has one if he can use the browser client. This will not work with a
password-less account.
- Find out the ip address of the web server used with the browser
connection. Several ways to do this are available. OTTool comes to mind.
- Once you have the ip address of the web server, use it as a POP
mail address for Eudora. It is likely the Groupwise IP gateway is on the
same address as the web server. I believe that a POP mail client is a
standard part of the gateway in Groupwise 5.x. Ours was there the day the
5.1 Gateway was installed.

This method does not do any maintenance of the Groupwise account. That
would have to be done with the browser or PC client.

The browser client leaves much to be desired.

Hope this helps some.

Wes

>Hello,
>I am trying to help a friend log into a groupwise 5.1 system with his mac. The
>system administrators are very prejudiced against macs and will not
>support >them. I think he may be the only mac user in the whole state of
>utah groupwise
>network.
>
>The main thing that he wants to do is simply have access to the mailbox to
>check his e-mail. He has a g3 powermac with os 8.1 and we downloaded the
>latest version of the groupwise client from novell and installed it. The
>client can see the network and the pobox, but when it tries to
>authenticate, it goes part way then gives up. We had been using an older
>version of the groupwise 5.1/5.2 client and figured that the new version
>might be able to log him in. When he tries to hook up from a PC,
>everything works fine.
>
[snip]
>Does anyone have any ideas on how we can help my friend read his e-mail? It
>really is a ridiculous situation.

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