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. Novell was also the name of a road bicycle racing team. ... NetWare is a network operating system and the set of network protocols it uses to talk to client machines on the network. ... Jump to: navigation, search Tux, a cartoon penguin frequently featured sitting, is the official Linux mascot. ... Windows NT is a family of operating systems produced by Microsoft, and was succeeded by Windows 2000 (still based on Windows NT). ... It has been suggested that this article or section be merged with Unix-like. ...

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. In telecommunication, the term file server has the following meanings: A high-capacity disk storage device or a computer that hosts files so that they may be accessed or retrieved by other computers on the same network. ... A print serveris a host computer or device to which one or more printers are connected and which accepts print jobs from external client computers. ... A directory service organizes computerized content and runs on a directory server computer. ... Clock drift Clock synchronization is a problem from computer science which deals with the idea that internal clocks of several computers may differ. ... The Internet protocol suite is the set of communications protocols that implement the protocol stack on which the Internet runs. ... IPX/SPX, which stands for Internet Packet Exchange/Sequenced Packet Exchange, is a networking protocol used by the Novell NetWare operating systems. ...

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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

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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.

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External links

• NCP specification
• Ethereal (an open source protocol analyzer) Documentation - Fields of the NCP packet