Some random thoughts; For most linux users in NSS environments, I suspect the majority of us are Administrators who simply use scp/ftp/cifs against the NSS volumes to move files. The Novell NCP Client that was available for SLE 11 was almost acceptable, but it was always behind/breaking with routine linux patches and it is no longer available for SLE 12. I suspect the old linux NCP client was taking too much in the way of resources to actively maintain. Improved native linux NCP support would be very helpful, even if it is just for current Suse releases and even if support is only limited to improving ncpmount (for example, it could be better integrated into current Suse supported File Managers, Add a Yast NCP configuration module if necessary, etc.). Perhaps even a native Filr client for Suse linux would help most use cases as Filr seems to be the future multi-platform client, but there are limitations and it offers no where near the performance of NCP or even CIFS.

Some random thoughts; For most linux users in NSS environments, I suspect the majority of us are Administrators who simply use scp/ftp/cifs against the NSS volumes to move files. The Novell NCP Client that was available for SLE 11 was almost acceptable, but it was always behind/breaking with routine linux patches and it is no longer available for SLE 12. I suspect the old linux NCP client was taking too much in the way of resources to actively maintain. Improved native linux NCP support would be very helpful, even if it is just for current Suse releases and even if support is only limited to improving ncpmount (for example, it could be better integrated into current Suse supported File Managers, Add a Yast NCP configuration module if necessary, etc.). Perhaps even a native Filr client for Suse linux would help most use cases as Filr seems to be the future multi-platform client, but there are limitations and it offers no where near the performance of NCP or even CIFS.