On Mon, 25 Jun 2001, Howard C. Berkowitz wrote:

> The way I look at Novell is that there are three APIs:

four, if my memories of my stint developing Netware-based utilities are 
accurate..

>      Application layer:  NCP
>      Session layer:      NetBIOS
>      Transport layer:    SPX

       Transport layer:    IPX

> Resource location is defined for NCP with SAP/GNS, with the NetBIOS 
> name service for NetBIOS, and is undefined for SPX.

SAP and GNS work for locating SPX-based servers too. I don't think
there's anything specific that lets you know whether you should use SPX
or NCP with a given server. Unless it's implicit in the server type.

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