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When querying the Directory, you can supply the complete name of an
object; then receive information that describes that object. Or, you can
supply a property value of an object and receive a list of objects that have
that value.
For example, to find all users with a last name of Smith, then “Smith” is the
value you want to find in the LAST NAME property of User objects.
Object context
NetWare Directory Services allows you to refer to objects according to their
positions within a tree. When you add an object (such as a server or user),
you place that object in a container object in the Directory tree.
The position of the object within its container is its context. For example, in
the previous figure, the context for the User object ESAYERS is
SALES PV.SALES.HEWLETT-PACKARD US.
When you move from one container object to another, you change contexts.
Whenever you change contexts, indicate the complete name of the object
you are changing context to.
If you are referring to an object that is in the same container object as your
User object, then you only need to refer to that object by its common name,
instead of by its complete name.
For example, in the previous figure, if User object ESAYERS, located in
SALES PV.SALES.HEWLETT-PACKARD US, wants information on User
object ESMITH located in the same context, then ESAYERS need only refer
to the User object as ESMITH.
User object ADMIN
The first time the network supervisor logs in, he or she logs in as User
ADMIN, created automatically during Directory Services installation.
When ADMIN is created, it is given a default trustee assignment to the root
object. This assignment grants ADMIN all rights to all objects and all
volumes (directories and files) in the entire Directory tree.
This means that ADMIN has rights to create and manage all objects in the
tree.