Welcome back again. This is going to be a quick article this month as we wrap up our series on Novell Console Commands.

SEND

Send is used to send messages to users our groups. This is particularly useful in the event of a system reboot, where it's helps to alert the users as to the planned outage.

	SEND ("message") TO (USER/GROUP) (Username)

As in

	SEND "The Server is going down" TO USER paul

SETPASS

Setpass is used to set the password on a specific server. This is particularly useful in networks with separate Novell Servers and Users that need to access both. Some minor scripting and the password changes can be synced.

	SETPASS (server)

SLIST

Slist is used to obtain a list of Novell File Servers running on your network.

	SLIST (servername/*)

SMODE

Smode is used to reassign a search mode to executable files, or to view the current search mode assigned to executable files. (Search mode means the path that the executable is restricted to look for data files in):

	SMODE (path/file) (search mode)

As in

	SMODE default.exe 5

(Search Mode 5 searches all open paths.)

SMODE is really a more complex command and you rarely will have to use it. (But at least you know that you can alter the search mode ;) )

SYSTIME

Use Systime to check the day, date or time on any fileserver on the network, or to synchronize any workstation with the server.

	SYSTIME (servername)

TLIST

Tlist is used to view the access rights user/ group trustees

	TLIST (file) (users/groups)

USERLIST

The Userlist command is a handy way to see the users logged into another server on the network (obviously, on console you could just use conman). Userlist will display the connection number, user name and login time of each user on the specified server unless the /all switch is used, where the network and node information will be included as well

	USERLIST (SERVER) (/ALL)

Well, That's it for our Novell Console Commands. I hope you've enjoyed the series as much as I have, and as always, if you have any questions, don't hesitate to email me.

• Novell Console Commands, A quick tutorial (Part 1)
• Novell Console Commands, A quick tutorial (Part 2)
• Novell Console Commands, A quick tutorial (Part 3)