Release 7.1.0 Software notes

NetWare Services limitations


Listing of symbolic links over NWS
The command ls -l (see ls(1)), when run over NWS, returns the size of the destination file, not that of the symbolic link in the directory in which it is run. This may cause problems when the output of the command is used as input to cpio(1).

NetWare Integration Kit
The NetWare Services (NWS) ``nwsup'' package (NetWare Integration Kit) is not distributed with UnixWare 7, although references to it appear in the UnixWare 7 documentation.

This package was distributed with UnixWare 2.1 and contained floppy images of additional NetWare Loadable Modules (NLMs) which could be installed on top of existing Native NetWare servers. These NLMs added support for additional UnixWare semantics when accessing files on the server (mode and ownership in particular). They were known collectively as the ``NUC NLM'' or sometimes the ``UnixWare NLM''.

A standard Native NetWare server supports file access semantics in what is called ``DOS Mode''. The NUC NLM added two more additional modes called ``NetWare Mode'' and ``UnixWare Mode'' which provided increasing levels of UnixWare file access semantics.

While the NUC NLM is no longer supported, references to ``NetWare Mode'' and ``UnixWare Mode'' appear in the context of modes supported by the UnixWare NetWare server. These are still valid. They are only obsolete when referring to the Native NetWare server with NUC NLMs added.

This issue affects the Networking -> Administering NetWare Services (NWS) -> Administering NetWare Connectivity online documentation topic, particularly the following:

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