Accessing NetWare volumes from UnixWare

Startup and name mapping file maintenance

The following topics tell you how to maintain the startup and name mapping files relevant to NUC and NUC.NLM.

Other software (such as Network Information Service or NIS) can automate the maintenance of the NUC name mapping files. If NIS or some other similar product is installed on both NetWare and UnixWare, consult the documentation for the product to create and maintain the name mapping files for NUC.

UNISTART.NCF file maintenance

This file may need to be updated if you want to change the access mode in which a volume is loaded.

A volume may be in a non-NFS mode (that is, may not support the NFS name space) or, if NFS support is added to the volume, it may be loaded in either NetWare mode or UNIX mode when NUC.NLM is loaded.

When you installed the UnixWare NLMs on your server, the installation process added the following line to the file SYS:SYSTEM\AUTOEXEC.NCF:

   UNISTART

This command will execute the file SYS:SYSTEM\UNISTART.NCF each time you start the NetWare server. The unistart.ncf script loads all the NLMs necessary for NUC.NLM to work, and also (in its initial form) loads NUC.NLM in NetWare mode for all volumes that have the NFS name space added.

Any remaining volumes are loaded in non-NFS modes; none are loaded in UNIX mode. This is done by the following line in unistart.ncf:

   LOAD NUC

To load NUC.NLM in UNIX mode for particular volumes, you need to edit UNISTART.NCF and change the LOAD NUC line as follows:

   LOAD NUC VOLNAME ...

where VOLNAME is a volume name without a trailing colon (:), or the special keyword all to load all volumes supporting the NFS name space in UNIX mode.

You can enter one or more individual volume names on the command line; any volumes not specifically named on the command line will be loaded in NetWare mode (if the NFS name space has been added to the volume) or in non-NFS modes (if NFS name space support has not been added to the volume).

See ``Changing a volume's access mode'' for a summary of access mode changes. This table tells you whether a change in the unistart.ncf file is necessary when changing access modes.

PASSWD file maintenance

This file will need to be updated if:

Users are added or deleted from UnixWare systems.
The primary group assignment of a UnixWare user listed in this file is changed.

NFSUSERS file maintenance

This file will need to be updated if:

Existing UnixWare users that appear in this file are deleted from the UnixWare system.
New UnixWare users are added that require NetWare logins and access to NetWare or UNIX mode volumes.
NetWare users that appear in this file are deleted.

NFSGROUP file maintenance

This file will need to be updated if:

Existing UnixWare groups that appear in this file are deleted from the UnixWare system.
New UnixWare groups are added, and users belonging to these groups require access to NetWare or UNIX mode volumes.
NetWare logins are added to a new group as their primary group.