Import ncpfs 0.17

man/ncpmount.8

@@ -34,6 +34,9 @@ ncpmount \- mount all volumes of a specified Novell fileserver.
 .B -d
 .I dir mode
 ] [
+.B -V
+.I volume
+] [
 .B -v
 ]
 mount-point
@@ -188,6 +191,36 @@ can very well choose a file mode that tells that you have. This
 certainly cannot override the restrictions imposed by the server.
 .RE
 
+.B -V
+.I volume
+.RS 3
+There are 2 general ways you can mount a NetWare server's disk space:
+Either you can mount all volumes under one directory, or you can mount
+only a single volume.
+
+When you choose to mount the complete disk space at once, you have the
+advantage that only one Linux mount point and only one
+NetWare connection is used for all the volumes of this server. Both of
+these are limited resources. (Although raising the number of Linux
+mount points is significantly cheaper than raising the number of
+available NetWare connections ;-))
+
+When you specify to mount a single volume by using the option
+.B -V
+.I volume,
+you have the big advantage that nfsd is able to re-export this mounted
+directory. You must invoke 
+.B nfsd
+and
+.B mountd
+with the option
+.I --re-export
+to make nfsd re-export ncpfs mounted directories. This uses one Linux
+mount point and one NetWare connection per mounted volume. Maybe
+sometime in the future I will make it possible to mount all volumes on
+different mount points, using only one connection.
+.RE
+
 .B -v
 .RS 3
 Print ncpfs version number
@@ -212,7 +245,7 @@ Most diagnostics issued by ncpfs are logged by syslogd. Normally
 nothing is printed, only error situations are logged there.
 
 .SH SEE ALSO
-.B syslogd(8), ncpumount(8)
+.B syslogd(8), ncpumount(8), nfsd(8), mountd(8)
 
 .SH CREDITS
 ncpfs would not have been possible without lwared, written by Ales

man/nwmsg.8

@@ -0,0 +1,33 @@
+.TH NWMSG 8 02/29/1996 nwmsg nwmsg
+.SH NAME
+nwmsg \- Deliver NetWare user broadcast messages
+.SH SYNOPSIS
+.B nwmsg
+.I mount-point
+.SH DESCRIPTION
+.B nwmsg
+is called by kerneld when a broadcast message arrives from a NetWare
+server.
+.B nwmsg
+fetches this message via the mount point and delivers it to
+the user using the same way write(1) uses. 
+
+Please note that 
+.I kerneld
+must run when broadcast messages should be delivered to users.
+
+NetWare servers can send asynchronous broadcast messages to users,
+either on explicit request by another user, or when the server is
+shutdown. The client workstation is informed about this event by an
+IPX packet on a special socket, the message socket.
+
+This can happen at any time, so the user has to be informed about this
+event whenever it appears. I chose to use the kerneld feature of the
+Linux kernel to call the program nwmsg. For nwmsg, I used the relevant
+parts of the 
+.I write
+program, so you can expect the NetWare broadcast
+messages to appear where user messages would appear.
+
+.SH SEE ALSO
+ncpmount(8), kerneld(8), write(1)