NetWare Core Protocol
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The NetWare Core Protocol (NCP) is a network protocol used in some products from Novell, Inc. It is usually associated with the NetWare operating system, but parts of it have been ported to other platforms such as Linux, Windows NT and various flavors of Unix.
It is used to access file, print, directory, clock synchronization, messaging, remote command execution and other network service functions. TCP/IP and IPX/SPX (obsoleted, supported only on NetWare) are the supported underlying protocols.
Novell eDirectory uses NCP for synchronizing data changes between the servers in a directory service tree.
Server-side implementations
- Novell Open Enterprise Server
- Novell NetWare
- mars_nwe, an open-source NetWare 3.x emulator.
- File and Print Services for NetWare from Microsoft
Client-side implementations
- Novell Client for Windows 2000/XP/2003 from Novell.
- Novell Client for Windows 95/98 from Novell.
- Novell Client for Linux from Novell.
- NetWare Clients for DOS from Novell - no longer supported officially.
- NetWare Client for Mac OS X from Prosoft Engineering.
- ncpfs, an open-source NCP client implementation for Linux.
- Client Serivce for NetWare from Microsoft.
External links
- NCP specification
- Ethereal (an open source protocol analyzer) Documentation - Fields of the NCP packet
