NetWare 4.1/9000 Concepts

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NetWare Glossary
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Objects in a bindery exist in a flat database instead of a hierarchical database
like a NetWare Directory Services database. Bindery services occur when
NDS provides a flat structure for the objects within an Organization object
or within an Organizational Unit object.
All objects within that container object can then be accessed both by NDS
clients and by bindery-based clients and servers. Bindery services applies
only to the leaf objects in that Organizational Unit.
The following figure illustrates bindery services when a bindery context is
set for an Organizational Unit object.
Figure 1-4 Bindery services in a Directory tree
The container object where bindery services is set is called the bindery
context. You can set the bindery context by using either the graphical
NetWare Setup or the command line nwcm configuration utility.
[Root]
Organization
Organization Organization
Organizational
Unit
Organizational
Unit
Leaf objects
Bindery context is
set here.
All of these objects
appear in bindery
structure to NetWare
2 and 3 clients.
Server object
Server object
User object
for v3.11
A read/write
replica of this
partition is stored
on each server
in this context.