As mentioned in the above article, the NOS (Network Operating System) of all central LAN PC Servers for supporting academic departments have been upgraded to Novell Netware 5.  This time,  we are pleased to inform our users that all LAN PC servers for supporting the Registry, Estates Office and the Finance Office have also been upgraded to the newest version of Novell Netware, i.e. Netware 5.

The Novell Netware family of NOS products have been widely used in large as well as small enterprises for more than a decade.  Netware 5 is the latest version and is Y2K compliant.  It has included many advanced features for supporting LAN and Internet applications.  For example, it supports both Novell's IPX protocol which has been widely employed in LAN environment and the IP protocol - the Internet Protocol. Other than the file- and print-server services, Netware 5 supports also the web server function at the application level. These features make a Netware 5 server more efficient, in comparison with the earlier versions of Netware, in supporting network communications over local area network (LAN) as well as Internet.

Users who are interested in knowing more about the upgraded LAN PC servers for the aforementioned administrative offices and/or Netware 5 can contact the undersigned.

Tony F.K. Lai
Tel: 2859 7976
Email: lfk@cc.hku.hk