10.3 Mounting NCP Volumes

After creating an NCP volume, you must mount it to make it accessible to users via the Novell Client. Any NCP volume that has been dismounted must also be mounted before it can be accessed.

10.3.1 Mounting an NCP Volume with Novell Remote Manager

If you create an NCP volume with Novell Remote Manager, the volume is automatically mounted when it is created.

To mount an NCP volume:

  1. In Novell Remote Manager, click Manage NCP Services > Manage Shares, then click the Mount button next to the NCP volume you want to mount.

10.3.2 Mounting an NCP Volume with NCPCON

  1. Open a terminal console on the Linux server that you want to manage, then log in as the root user.

  2. Use one of the following methods to mount an NCP volume:

    • At the terminal console prompt, enter ncpcon to open the NCPCON utility, then enter

      mount ncp_volume_name

    • At the terminal console prompt, enter

      ncpcon mount ncp_volume_name

      For example, if volume sys is dismounted, mount it by entering

      ncpcon mount sys

    Replace ncp_volume_name with the name of the NCP volume you want to mount. Volume names are not case sensitive. You can also replace ncp_volume_name with all to mount all NCP volumes on the server.

10.3.3 Using the ncpmount(8) Command from a Client

You might use the Linux ncpmount(8) command to mount an NCP volume from a client in the following scenarios:

  • If the Novell Client is not installed on the client

  • If you want to automatically mount the NCP volume on system start

The connection must be established using native NCP over a TCP/IP network. The ncpmount command is part of the ncpfs package. For NCP volumes on OES Linux, only the DOS and LONG namespaces are supported for the ncpmount command. For NetWare servers, the DOS, AFP, NFS, and LONG namespaces are supported for the ncpmount command.

When you invoke the ncpmount command from a client to mount an NCP volume on the client, it sends a "Name Spaces Loaded List from Volume Number" request to NCP Server.

For NCP server on Linux, the response to the request is:

  • 0x00 (DOS)

  • 0x04 (LONG/OS/2)

For NCP Server on NetWare, the response to the request is:

  • 0x00 (DOS)

  • 0x01 (AFP)

  • 0x02 (NFS)

  • 0x04 (LONG/OS/2)