NWCLIENT(5)

NAME
       nwclient - configuration file for NWClient program suite

DESCRIPTION
       This manual page describes the rather simple format of the
       file  $HOME/.nwclient,  the  configuration  file  for  the
       NWClient program suite.

FILE FORMAT
       The  file  $HOME/.nwclient consists of several lines, each
       describing a NWClient connection. Lines beginning  with  #
       and empty lines are ignored as comments.

       Because  you  can  store  passwords in .nwclient, the user
       programs will only scan .nwclient when only the file owner
       has  access rights to the file. The file must be have per-
       missions 0600.

       To specify a NWClient connection, the  name  of  the  file
       server,  the user name to be used and a password is neces-
       sary. The server name and the user name are  specified  as
       SERVER/USER, and the password is separated by a blank. The
       password field can be omitted. In this case the user  pro-
       grams  will  ask  you  for  a password. If you specify the
       password to be just a dash, then no password is used.

       The first valid specification has a  special  meaning:  If
       the  user  does not name a server on the command line, the
       first specification is used as a 'preferred connection'.

       An example might be the following:

          # The preferred connection, the user is asked
          # for a password
          FS311/ME
          # And a passwordless account on another server
          CD-SERV/GUEST -

       With these lines  in  $HOME/.nwclient,  calling  'ncpmount
       /mnt'  will mount the the file server FS311 with user name
       ME on /mnt after asking the user for a password.

       'ncpmount -S cd-serv /cd' will silently mount  the  server
       cd-serv on /cd.

       nprint  ,  pqlist  and  other user programs that require a
       valid login also look up $HOME/.nwclient to  find  a  file
       server, a user name and possibly a password.

       Please  note that the access permissions of .nwclient MUST
       be 600, for security reasons.

SEE ALSO
       ncpmount(8) ncpumount(8) slist(1) pqlist(1) nprint(1)