Groupwise Administration via ConsoleOne – Debian-based distros

The linux-version ConsoleOne does not include the groupwise snapins…you’ll have to download the whole groupwise-linux iso from Novell website or copy the file

novell-groupwise-admin-7.0-xxxxxxxx.i386.rpm from the GroupWise Installation CD.

as always, since this is an rpm file, run alien to convert it to .deb installation file

**** you have to be root ******
1. alien -v -d novell-groupwise-admin-7.0-xxxxxxxx.i386.rpm

2. install the .deb file created by alien

3. Modify the ConsoleOne file : location /usr/ConsoleOne/bin/ConsoleOne

change the LD_LIBRARY_PATH

LD_LIBRARY_PATH=”/usr/lib:/opt/novell/lib:/opt/novell/eDirectory/lib:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH”

change it to

LD_LIBRARY_PATH=”/usr/lib:/usr/ConsoleOne/bin:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH”

4. you should be able to ConsoleOne with Groupwise snapins now

5. However, you will have to mount the groupwise folder from the groupwise server in order to connect via ConsoleOne

use samba to share the groupwise folder. mount the shared folder using the mount.cifs command or smbmount

6. When connecting to groupwise server point the mount folder as this is where wpdomain.db is stored

7. End

Many thanks to sjippy from ubuntuforums for guidance. The link to original posts is here