NetWare Directory Services

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Planning NetWare Directory Services Implementation
Organizing Objects into a Logical Hierarchy
For example, if you have a high-speed printer in the organization that everyone
needs access to, place the Printer object for that printer in a container where you
can assign rights to allow everyone access to that Printer object.
• You can always add, delete, or move leaf objects after you have installed your
Directory tree.
• Create User objects only in the container object where they will typically log in.
It is undesirable to create duplicate User objects for the same person.
Plan to use User Templates in specific Organization and Organizational Unit
objects. For more information, see “Managing User Templates” in Supervising
the Network.
Also, plan to use Alias objects as necessary. Alias objects refer to an object that
exists elsewhere in the tree without actually duplicating the object. Updates to
an original object are immediately available to all Alias objects that reference it.
• Rights should be granted by exception. That is, you should grant rights at the
container level, then at the group level, and then on an individual object level if
necessary.
For more information on container rights, see see “Container Rights” on
page 26.
For more information on inheriting rights, see “Security” in Concepts. For more
information on Group objects, see “Managing Group Objects” in Supervising
the Network.
Directory Tree Planning Example
The following example represents some of the planning conventions used
for implementing NDS in an organization with offices across a continent.
Assume that the ACME Corporation has offices in the following three cities
within the United States:
• Sales and accounting offices located in the corporate headquarters in New York,
New York
• A development and test facility in Detroit, Michigan
• Manufacturing sites in Los Angeles, California
The following figure shows the physical layout of the offices, facilities, and
sites used in the example, illustrating some of the previously discussed
planning guidelines.