Novell Client for Tiger

Well do you mean an authentication client, vpn, what?

As far as i know novel uses common *nix standards so any client would just be a bundling of those things into one. So in otherwords you should be bale to do it all with stock OS X stuff. Stuff being: Kerebros, NFS, SMB, LDAP/eDirectory, etc..

If you could be more specific about what it is you need to do that would be helpful.

and is this wen your eon the office network or remotely from home?

The best way to gain OS X connectivity to a Novell network is to use the client from ProSoft Engineering. This requires no modification to the Novell settings, and is typically seamless, even providing login script functionality and mounted Netware volumes.

You could ask the Novell admins to enable AFP and simple passwords, but I doubt they're going to be amenable to that.

ProSoft NetWare? Tread very , very carefully. This application, which I use to (attempt) to connect to my work's Novell network, is majorly buggy. When it works it works pretty well. But it is written on some of the most fragile code I have ever experienced. It just up and quits, or at least says it does, at least five times a day for me. More fatal, however, are the kernel panics it causes on my MBP. My laptop is absolutely rock solid until I boot NetWare, and then the prayers begin. If you do use NetWare you absolutely, absolutely, abolutely must log off the network and quit the application before you shut down your machine. Otherwise, BAM! kernel panic!

If you can, convince your IT people to allow you to connect to your network servers using AFP or SMB. Then you can just connect to the network drives from the Go>connect to server function in OS X. I do this to other servers and it works flawlessly. Your IT people might already have it enabled. If you can get the IP address for the server you are trying to access at your job you can give it a try. Then your experiment will be a success. I wish you luck (my IT people won't cooperate on the AFP or SMB front at all).

Ok, so the client is buggy, but expensive?
(I was just sitting here considering giving the ProSoft client a try ...)

Maybe I should just go for the iFolder client, then ...

At work we're on a novell system, I am able to connect to the novell server without any 3rd party software by clicking command K and typing in smb://ip address of server/shared volume or cifs://ip address of server/shared volume . I believe you have to have cifs running on the novell server in order to do this - It was running on ours so it wasn't a hassle at all.