Idea ID: 2783550

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

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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  • Also, PLEASE do not write this in Java. It will be tempting to do so since Microfocus has a lot of Java programmers, and even some NCP client code already written in Java. However, our experience has been that Java applications in general and specifically those written by Novell / Microfocus continue to act in ways alien to OS X.
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  • Also, PLEASE do not write this in Java. It will be tempting to do so since Microfocus has a lot of Java programmers, and even some NCP client code already written in Java. However, our experience has been that Java applications in general and specifically those written by Novell / Microfocus continue to act in ways alien to OS X.
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