# Name of submitters: Mikael Pahmp # Erik Guttman # Kent Lidstrom # # Security Considerations: # The attributes included in the template, especially those concerning # access control, are to be used to provide clients with configuration # information regarding server features, not security per se. # Authentication of and access control must be performed by the data # access protocols themselves. # -------------------------------------------------------------------------- # Introduction # It is increasingly common to find networked storage devices which # are available using a range of access protocols. One common class # of storage devices allow removable storage (such as CD-ROMs, tapes # and optical disks) to be made available to the network simply by # inserting the media to the networked storage device. # # This presents a problem: How are clients to discover which media # is currently available, or becomes avaiLable over time? By using # SLP [RFC2608] and advertising the attributes of the removable storage # media, the data on the storage media becomes accessible without # any prior client configuration. # # Abstract Service templates are defined in [RFC2609]. # Definitions # This document defines the NCP Networked Removable Storage Media # concrete service type. See the definitions for nrsm (the abstract # service type for Network Removable Storage Media.) # NCP # The NetWare Core Protocol (NCP) is one of the core protocols of the # NetWare (TM) operating system. No known public specification of this # protocol exists. Clients with access to a NCP client implementation # may still use the information available in a Networked Removable # Storage Media service: URL of the NCP concrete type to access the # media. # -------------------------------------------------------------------------- template-type = nrsm:ncp template-version = 1.0 template-description = This is the concrete service template for NCP access to Networked Removable Storage Media. template-url-syntax = url-path = "/" unc-path ; "unc-path" is a UNC path string as defined in CIFS specification ; Leach, P. and D. Naik, "A Common Internet File System (CIFS/1.0) ; Protocol", draft-leach-cifs-v1-spec-01.txt, December 1997. ; This string value is escaped according to the rules in RFC 2609.