Hi, I believe there is a remote console using Telnet/SSH you can use as well if you want, Novell are now using Linux as a platform, so some of the servers you may encounter may run using Suse as a base. That is where my experience ends with Novell though. Thanks. Andrew. -----Original Message----- From: Troy Hergert [mailto:t.hergert@badgerassoc.org] Sent: 27 March 2008 13:44 To: vincent@vanitallie.net; Blind sysadmins list Subject: Re: [Blind-sysadmins] novell Vincent, I am still managing a duel server environment Novell and Windows. Novell has been pretty easy. The Windows based management component called nwadmin is mostly speech friendly. A bit of mouse/jaws cursor may be needed ocassionally. I also have to access the server screens itself and that I do with a remote console session using vocal-eyes and a hardware synthesizer. The only times I've needed sighted assistance is for serious issues where the boot process would halt prior to the ability to login. Then I have to have sighted help at the server itself. I believe there's a way which I never bothered to try, where you could load a dos screen reader on the server itself and it may indeed function properly after the operating system is loaded. It's basically a dos machine. We're using Novell 5.1. Not sure what has changed in later versions. While Novell servers can be tough to get optimized, once their up, they rarely need to be rebooted. Think I last rebooted ours last October sometime. From: "Vincent van Itallie" <vincent@vanitallie.net> To: <blind-sysadmins@lists.hodgsonfamily.org> Sent: Thursday, March 27, 2008 6:15 AM Subject: [Blind-sysadmins] novell Hi all, It has been quiet in here. Could someone please explain how accessible working in a novell environment is from a blind administrator's point of view? My employer is considering putting me in a project where novel and zenworks administration needed to be done. Hope someone can shed a bit of light on this. Vincent. -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. _______________________________________________ Blind-sysadmins mailing list Blind-sysadmins@lists.hodgsonfamily.org http://lists.hodgsonfamily.org/mailman/listinfo/blind-sysadmins _______________________________________________ Blind-sysadmins mailing list Blind-sysadmins@lists.hodgsonfamily.org http://lists.hodgsonfamily.org/mailman/listinfo/blind-sysadmins -- allpay.net Limited, Fortis et Fides, Whitestone Business Park, Whitestone, Hereford, HR1 3SE. Registered in England No. 02933191. UK VAT Reg. No. 666 9148 88. Telephone: 0870 243 3434, Fax: 0870 243 6041. Website: www.allpay.net Email: enquiries@allpay.net This email, and any files transmitted with it, is confidential and intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom it is addressed. If you have received this email in error please notify the allpay.net Information Security Manager at the number above.