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Idea ID: 2783550

Provide a proper cross-platform NCP client for Mac and Linux.

Paul Rock
Status: Delivered
Mac users increasingly expect feature parity with Windows users.

I suggest that now is a good time to build an NCP client for the Mac again to include features such as login script processing, salvage etc. This could be easily ported from the current Novell Client for Linux (NCL) and the NCL could be updated to work for a wider range of Linux distributions.

Without this, Microfocus' cross-plaform story is sadly incomplete.
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  • We have been running into problems using Novell CIFS time and time again on Macs, mostly due to the fact that Apple has a complete disregard for backward compatibility (and is proud about it). Novell CIFS engineers do their best to fix problems with every new Mac OS release, but this chase is impossible to win, because Apple and MSFT have partnered up lately. MicroFocus needs to control both sides of the equation (server and client) to stay on the ball in this chase (just like they do on Windows). It is not possible to guaranty results if you depend on someone else (i.e. Apple) to deliver half of the user experience for network file access (well, more then half actually). I think a Mac OS X NCP client will isolate Novell quite a bit from Apple's stance that pushing latest features for home users outweighs breaking things for Novell users.
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  • We have been running into problems using Novell CIFS time and time again on Macs, mostly due to the fact that Apple has a complete disregard for backward compatibility (and is proud about it). Novell CIFS engineers do their best to fix problems with every new Mac OS release, but this chase is impossible to win, because Apple and MSFT have partnered up lately. MicroFocus needs to control both sides of the equation (server and client) to stay on the ball in this chase (just like they do on Windows). It is not possible to guaranty results if you depend on someone else (i.e. Apple) to deliver half of the user experience for network file access (well, more then half actually). I think a Mac OS X NCP client will isolate Novell quite a bit from Apple's stance that pushing latest features for home users outweighs breaking things for Novell users.
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