NetWare Lite andPersonal NetWare are a series of discontinuedpeer-to-peerlocal area networks developed byNovell forDOS- andWindows-basedpersonal computers aimed at personal users andsmall businesses in the 1990s.
In 1991, Novell introduced NetWare Lite 1.0 (NWL),[1][2] as a radically different and cheaper alternative to their central server-basedNetWare product. Codenamed "Slurpee", NetWare Lite was an answer toArtisoft's similarLANtastic: both were peer-to-peer systems, where no dedicated server was required, but instead all PCs on the network could share their resources.
Netware Lite contained a unique serial number in theEXE files that prevented running the same copy on multiple nodes within a single network. This basic copy protection was easily circumvented by comparing files from different licenses and accordingly editing the serial number bytes.
The product was upgraded to NetWare Lite 1.1 and also came bundled withDR DOS 6.0. Some components of NetWare Lite were used in Novell's NetWarePalmDOS 1.0 in 1992.
A Japanese version of NetWare Lite named "NetWare Lite 1.1J" existed in 1992 for four platforms (DOS/V,Fujitsu FM-R,NEC PC-98/Epson PC andToshiba J-3100) and was supported up to 1997.[3] Updates were distributed by Novell asDOSV6.EXE,DOSV.EXE,TSBODI.LZH.[3]
NetWare Lite 1.1 came bundled withNLSNIPES, a newer implementation of Novell's Snipes game.[4]
Significantly reworked, the product line, codenamed "Smirnoff", became Personal NetWare 1.0 (PNW) in 1994. TheODI/VLM 16-bit DOS client portion of the drivers now supported individually loadableVirtual Loadable Modules (VLMs) for an improved flexibility and customizability, whereas the server portion could utilize Novell'sDOS Protected Mode Services (DPMS), if loaded, to reduce itsconventional memory footprint and run inextended memory andprotected mode. The NetWare Lite disk cache NLCACHE had been reworked intoNWCACHE, which was easier to set up and could utilize DPMS as well, thereby reducing the DOSmemory footprint and significantly speeding up disk performance. Personal NetWare came bundled with the network-enabled gameNetWars 2.06.
A Japanese version of Personal NetWare 1.0 named "Personal NetWare J 1.0" existed for four platforms (DOS/V,Fujitsu FM-R,NEC PC-98/Epson PC andToshiba J-3100) and was supported up to 1995.[3] Updates were distributed by Novell asP10J0?.EXE (with? replaced by1 -5),PNDOSV2.EXE,PNDOSV1.LZH.[3][5]
The Personal NetWare 1.0 product saw five maintenance upgrades for the Western issues and two for the Japanese versions as well as various comprehensive updates to the corresponding VLM client driver suite (1.0, 1.1, 1.20, 1.21) as part of the Novell Client Kit for DOS & Windows up to November 1996 in the Western world and up to April 1997 in Japan.[3] They added many newMLID (Media Link Interface Driver) drivers, including drivers forSLIP andPPP, as well as extracodepages and languages.[5]
A full version of Personal NetWare (save the interactive tutorials) also came bundled withNovell DOS 7 in 1994 at a price similar to that of the stand-alone version of Personal NetWare.
Portions of Personal NetWare were incorporated into Novell'sLAN Workplace for DOS andNetWare Mobile for DOS products, and as such compatibleTCP/IP drivers became available for the system as well.[clarification needed]
Later, Personal NetWare was bundled with full versions ofCalderaOpenDOS 7.01,DR-DOS 7.02 and7.03 between 1997 and 1999; however, these bundles were delivered with the same Personal NetWare files shipping with Novell DOS 7, not the upgraded files, which had been made available for download by Novell since 1994.
The ODI/VLM client stack with TCP/IP drivers also found its way into theDR-WebSpyder distribution in 1997.
When Novell in 1996 introduced itsODI32/NIOS 32-bit DOS/Windows client (Client 32), it usedNetWare Loadable Modules (NLMs) instead of VLM modules. While the NIOS client could reduce the conventional memory footprint down to 2 to 5 KB in total,[5][6] the lack of something like a "PNW.NLM" module (in analogy to the VLM client's PNW.VLM) made it impossible to use the new client in conjunction with a Personal NetWare server.[5][7]
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