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OES 2: Novell iFolder 3.6 Cross-Platform User Guide

iFolder

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April 2008

Cross-Platform User Guide

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Contents

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About This Guide 9

1 Overview of iFolder 11

1.1 Benefits of iFolder . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11

1.2 The iFolder Client. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12

1.3 iFolder Account . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12

1.4 Cross-Platform Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12

1.5 Key Features of iFolder . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13

1.5.1 iFolder Sharing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13

1.5.2 iFolder Access Rights . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14

1.5.3 Encryption . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15

1.5.4 File Synchronization . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15

1.5.5 Enhanced Web Access . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16

1.5.6 Migration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16

1.5.7 Upgrade . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16

1.5.8 Default iFolder . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16

1.5.9 Synchronization Log . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16

1.6 What’s Next . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17

2What’sNew 19

2.1 What’s New for iFolder 3.6. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19

2.2 What’s New for iFolder 3.4. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19

2.3 What’s New for iFolder 3.2. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19

2.4 What’s New for iFolder 3.1. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20

2.5 What’s New for iFolder 3.0. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20

2.6 Client Features and Capabilities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20

2.7 Web Access Features and Capabilities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24

2.8 What’s Next . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25

3 Using iFolder with Novell iFolder 3.6 27

3.1 Novell iFolder 3.6 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27

3.2 Benefits of Using iFolder 3.6 Services . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27

3.3 Sharing iFolders Through an iFolder 3.6 Enterprise Server. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28

3.4 Key Features of iFolder 3.6 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29

3.4.1 The iFolder Client . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29

3.4.2 iFolder Enterprise Server Account . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29

3.4.3 Shared iFolders . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30

3.4.4 iFolder Access Rights . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30

3.4.5 Encryption Policy Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30

3.4.6 Security Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30

3.4.7 Multi-Server Support . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31

3.4.8 Multi-Volume Support . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31

3.4.9 File Synchronization and Data Management . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31

3.5 What’s Next . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31

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4 Novell iFolder Migration and Upgrade 33

4.1 Migrating from iFolder 2.xto iFolder 3.6 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33

4.1.1 Understanding the Migration Process . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33

4.1.2 Migration Procedure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33

4.2 Upgrading iFolder 3.xClients. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38

4.2.1 Automatically Upgrading to iFolder 3.6 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38

4.2.2 Manually Upgrading to iFolder 3.6. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39

4.3 Coexistence of the Novell iFolder 2.x and iFolder Clients . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39

5 Getting Started 41

5.1 Prerequisites and Guidelines . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41

5.1.1 Hardware . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41

5.1.2 Client Computers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42

5.1.3 Mono . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42

5.1.4 Web Browser . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43

5.1.5 Network Connection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43

5.1.6 Enterprise Server. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43

5.1.7 Web Access Server . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43

5.2 Downloading the iFolder Client Install Files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43

5.3 Installing the iFolder Client . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45

5.3.1 Installing iFolder for Linux . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45

5.3.2 Installing iFolder for Windows . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46

5.4 Updating iFolder. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46

5.5 Updating Mono for Linux . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47

5.6 What’s Next . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47

6 Managing iFolder Accounts and Preferences 49

6.1 Starting the iFolder Client. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49

6.1.1 Linux . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50

6.1.2 Windows . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50

6.2 Configuring an iFolder Account . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51

6.3 Logging In to an iFolder Account . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58

6.4 Viewing and Modifying iFolder Account Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58

6.5 Configuring iFolder Preferences for the Client . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62

6.6 Configuring Local Firewall Settings for iFolder Traffic . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64

6.7 Configuring Local Virus Scanner Settings for iFolder Traffic . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66

6.8 Deleting an iFolder Account . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66

6.9 Exiting the iFolder Client . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67

6.10 Logging Out of an iFolder Account. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68

6.10.1 Linux . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68

6.10.2 Windows . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68

6.11 What’s Next . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68

7 Managing iFolders 69

7.1 Guidelines for the Location and Use of iFolders . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69

7.2 Guidelines for File Types and Sizes to Not Synchronize . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71

7.3 Naming Conventions for an iFolder and Its Folders and Files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71

7.4 Understanding iFolder Icons . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72

7.5 Creating and Uploading an iFolder . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74

7.5.1 Linux . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74

7.5.2 Windows . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76

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7.5.3 Creating iFolders on a FAT32 Mount Point (Linux) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78

7.6 Sharing an iFolder . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79

7.6.1 Understanding User Access Rights . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80

7.6.2 Accessing the Sharing Tab . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81

7.6.3 Adding a User to an iFolder . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81

7.6.4 Modifying User Access Rights . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82

7.6.5 Removing a User from an iFolder . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82

7.6.6 Transferring Ownership to an iFolder User . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82

7.7 Viewing and Hiding Available iFolders . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83

7.8 Downloading an Available iFolder . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83

7.9 Viewing and Configuring Properties of an iFolder . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84

7.9.1 Understanding iFolder Properties . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84

7.9.2 Accessing iFolder Properties from a File Manager . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85

7.9.3 Accessing iFolder Properties from the iFolder Browser. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85

7.10 Managing Passphrase for Encrypted iFolders . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85

7.10.1 Recovering an Encrypted iFolder . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85

7.10.2 Resetting the Passphrase . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87

7.11 Setting an iFolder Quota . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87

7.12 Synchronizing Files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87

7.12.1 Synchronizing Files on Demand . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88

7.12.2 Configuring the Synchronization Interval . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88

7.13 Resolving File Conflicts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88

7.13.1 Resolving File Version Conflicts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88

7.13.2 Resolving Filename Conflicts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89

7.14 Moving an iFolder. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89

7.15 Reverting an iFolder to a Normal Folder . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90

7.16 Removing Membership From a Shared iFolder . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91

7.17 Deleting an iFolder . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92

7.18 What’s Next . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93

8 Using Novell iFolder 3.6 Web Access 95

8.1 Logging In . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95

8.2 Creating a New iFolder . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96

8.3 Browsing and Managing iFolders. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96

8.3.1 Viewing a List of Folders and Files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96

8.3.2 Navigating Directories . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97

8.3.3 Downloading a File . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97

8.3.4 Creating a New Folder. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97

8.3.5 Deleting Folders or Files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97

8.3.6 Uploading a File . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97

8.3.7 Search Folders and Files. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98

8.4 Search iFolders . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98

8.5 Managing iFolder Shared Members . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98

8.5.1 Adding New Shared Members. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99

8.5.2 Assigning Rights to the Members . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99

8.6 Viewing History . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100

8.7 Viewing Details. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100

8.8 Logging Out . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101

A Uninstalling the iFolder Client 103

A.1 Before You Uninstall iFolder . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103

A.2 iFolder Client for Linux . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103

A.3 iFolder Client for Windows . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104

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B Troubleshooting 105

B.1 First Attempt at Connecting to The iFolder Server Fails . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105

B.2 First Attempt at Starting iFolder Client for Linux Fails . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105

B.3 Encrypted iFolders Take a Long Time to Synchronize. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106

B.4 iFolder File Fails to Synchronize . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106

B.5 Client File Fails to Synchronize to the Server Even after Conflict Resolution . . . . . . . . . . . . 107

B.6 All iFolders in an Account Fail to Synchronize . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107

B.7 Problem Synchronizing Some Files on a FAT32 File System on Linux . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107

B.8 Client Fails to Set Up a New iFolder Account . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108

B.9 Repopulating Contents of a Read Only iFolder . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108

B.10 GroupWise Files Become Corrupted in an iFolder. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108

B.11 Possible Slowed Performance With ZoneAlarm 4.5 or Earlier . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109

C Documentation Updates 111

C.1 September 2007. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111

C.1.1 Benefits of iFolder . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111

C.1.2 Key Features of iFolder . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112

C.1.3 Using iFolder with Novell iFolder 3.6 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112

C.1.4 What’s New for iFolder 3.6 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112

C.1.5 Novell iFolder Migration and Upgrade . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112

C.1.6 Downloading the iFolder Client Install Files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113

C.1.7 Installing the iFolder Client . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113

C.1.8 Configuring an iFolder Account . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113

C.1.9 Viewing and Modifying the iFolder Account Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113

C.1.10 Understanding iFolder Icons . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 114

C.1.11 Managing Passphrase for Encrypted iFolders . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 114

C.1.12 Using Novell iFolder 3.6 Web Access . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 114

C.2 August 15, 2006 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 114

C.2.1 What’s New . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115

C.2.2 Getting Started. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115

C.2.3 Managing iFolder Accounts and Preferences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115

C.2.4 Managing iFolders . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115

C.3 December 23, 2005 (Novell iFolder 3.2 for OES SP2 Linux) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116

C.3.1 What’s New . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116

C.3.2 Getting Started. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116

C.3.3 Managing iFolder Accounts and Preferences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116

C.3.4 Managing iFolders . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116

C.3.5 Troubleshooting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117

C.4 August 19, 2005 (Novell iFolder 3.1 for OES SP1 Linux) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117

C.4.1 Overview of iFolder . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117

C.4.2 Using iFolder with Novell iFolder 3.x. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117

C.4.3 What’s New . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117

C.4.4 Getting Started. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 118

C.4.5 Managing iFolder Accounts and Preferences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 118

C.4.6 Managing iFolders . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119

C.4.7 Troubleshooting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119

About This Guide 9

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About This Guide

This cross-platform user guide describes how to install and use the iFolderTM 3.6 client on Linux and

Windows* platforms in combination with a Novell®iFolder®3.6 enterprise server and how to

access iFolders via the iFolder 3.6 Web Access server.

Chapter 1, “Overview of iFolder,” on page 11

Chapter 3, “Using iFolder with Novell iFolder 3.6,” on page 27

Chapter 2, “What’s New,” on page 19

Chapter 4, “Novell iFolder Migration and Upgrade,” on page 33

Chapter 5, “Getting Started,” on page 41

Chapter 6, “Managing iFolder Accounts and Preferences,” on page 49

Chapter 7, “Managing iFolders,” on page 69

Chapter 8, “Using Novell iFolder 3.6 Web Access,” on page 95

Appendix A, “Uninstalling the iFolder Client,” on page 103

Appendix B, “Troubleshooting,” on page 105

Audience

This guide is intended for users of the iFolder client and iFolder Web access for Novell iFolder 3.6.

Feedback

We want to hear your comments and suggestions about this manual and the other documentation

included with this product. Please use the User Comment feature at the bottom of each page of the

online documentation, or go to www.novell.com/documentation/feedback.html and enter your

comments there.

Documentation Updates

For the most recent version of iFolder 3.6 client documentation, see the following:

Novell iFolder 3.6 User Guide (http://www.novell.com/documentation/ifolder3/ifolder36_user/

data/bookinfo.html)

Additional Documentation

For information about installing, configuring, and managing Novell iFolder 3.6 services, see the

following:

Novell iFolder 3.6 Administration Guide (http://www.novell.com/documentation/beta/ifolder3)

Novell iFolder 3.6 Security Administrator Guide (http://www.novell.com/documentation/beta/

ifolder3/#security)

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In Novell documentation, a greater-than symbol (>) is used to separate actions within a step and

items in a cross-reference path.

A trademark symbol (®, TM, etc.) denotes a Novell trademark. An asterisk (*) denotes a third-party

trademark.

When a single pathname can be written with a backslash for some platforms or a forward slash for

other platforms, the pathname is presented with a backslash. Users of platforms that require a

forward slash, such as Linux* or UNIX*, should use forward slashes as required by your software.

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