NAME
ncplogin - create permanent connection to a NetWare server
SYNOPSIS
ncplogin [-BCDN] [-S server] [-U user] [-A host] [-I level] [-M mode] [-O
[owner][:group]] [-R retrycount] [-T tree] [-W timeout]
ncplogin [-BCDN] [-A host] [-I level] [-M mode] [-O [owner][:group]]
[-R retrycount] [-T tree] [-W timeout] /server:user
DESCRIPTION
Connections to a NetWare server can be created and used independently of
the mount_nwfs(8) command. Connections can be created by any user. Each
user can have multiple connections, but each NetWareServer:NetWareUser
pair should be unique.
The ncplogin command is used to create a permanent connection to a
NetWare server. Permanent connections will stay open even if no
application uses them. This allows users to run different ncp* programs
without specifying a file server and user to use. Established
connections can be destroyed with the ncplogout(1) command.
Upper case options described in this manual page are common for other
ncp* programs and are referred to as “connection options”. Options -U
and -S are mutually exclusive with the /server:user syntax.
The following options are available:
-S server
Specify the name of the NetWare server to connect to. This
affects only IPX servers. For servers supporting IP natively,
see the -A option.
-U user
Specify the name of the user used in the login sequence.
-A host
Use the UDP protocol to connect to a NetWare 5.x server specified
by the host argument.
-C Do not convert the password to uppercase.
-D Mark the connection as primary. The option can be used to modify
existing connections. Only the ncplogin program accepts this
option.
-I signature_level
Try to use signature_level. Available values are:
Value Meaning
0 disable signatures
1 enable (use if required by server)
2 request but do not require signing
3 require signatures
Note that only packet header signing is implemented.
-M mode
Share this connection. The bits in the mode argument are similar
to standard file permissions:
Mask Meaning
4 (READ) connection will be visible.
2 (WRITE) connection can be closed/modified.
1 (EXECUTE) user is allowed to execute requests.
By default, the connection is created with mode 0700 and only the
owner can use it. Specifying 0750 as the argument to the -M
option would allow read-only group access as well. This would
allow the group to perform NCP requests, but not to destroy the
connection. When a server is not explicitly specified, ncp*
programs try to find a suitable connection in the following
order:
1. Try to find a connection owned by the user. If there
is more than one such connection, try to determine
which one is primary. (The primary flag is set with
the -D option.)
2. If the primary connection could not be determined, the
first shared connection will be used.
-N Do not prompt for a password. At run time, ncplogin reads the
~/.nwfsrc file for additional configuration parameters and a
password. If no password is found for the specified server:user
pair, ncplogin prompts for it.
-O Specify the owner and group attributes for the connection. By
default, newly created connections take the owner attribute from
the creating user’s username and the group attribute from the
creating user’s primary group. This option overrides that
behaviour. Only the superuser can override the owner attribute
for a connection.
-P Mark the connection as permanent. The ncplogin utility always
creates permanent connections. This option can be useful in
other ncp* programs.
-R retry_count
Specify the number of retries to be performed before dropping the
connection. The default value is 10.
Note: after a connection is marked “BAD”, each request will try
to restore it. This process restores only the NCP connection; it
does not reopen any files that were open at the time that the
connection was marked “BAD”.
-W timeout
Specify the server request timeout in seconds. The default is 5
seconds.
/server:user
This syntax is provided for the sake of simplicity and is
mutually exclusive with the -S and -U options.
IMPLEMENTATION NOTES
Low-level connection management is implemented in the ncp.ko kernel
module. The IPXrouted(8) program is also required for IPX support.
FILES
~/.nwfsrc keeps static parameters for connections and other information;
see /usr/share/examples/nwclient/dot.nwfsrc for details.
HISTORY
The ncplogin command first appeared in FreeBSD 4.0.
AUTHORS
Boris Popov 〈bp@butya.kz〉, 〈rbp@chat.ru〉
BUGS
Please report any bugs to the author.