NetWare Directory Services

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Implementing NetWare Directory Services
Completing General Tasks and Guidelines for All Networks
• Geographic structure. Use geographic locations as Organizational Units.
Then you can use organizational charts for each location to organize
workgroups or departments at each location.
• Functional structure. Organize your Directory tree by function if users or
groups in your organization perform similar functions. Users with similar
functions are likely to share servers and other resources, so it makes sense to
group them together.
• Bindery services structure. Group bindery services users within
containers (bindery contexts) defined by workgroups, shared resources, and
information usage and exchange. By placing similar users in the same
container object, you make it easier to give bindery services users access to
the resources they need.
4 Install the first server and set up the Directory tree.
Use the DS_Install utility to install NDS. During this process you are prompted
to specify the root context and tree name.
You must also set the server context within the Directory tree. If you want to
access information on the global internetwork, add a country code when setting
the server context and a Country object will be created directly below the [Root]
object.
Keep in mind that your network hardware supports both file services and
Directory services. If you add large numbers of leaf objects, such as users or
print queues, to a single container object, you might need to increase the amount
of shared memory on the server.
5 Use NetWare Administrator utility or NETADMIN and PCONSOLE to complete
the setup.
The NetWare Administrator utility is a Windows-based utility, and the
NETADMIN and PCONSOLE are DOS-based utilities. To run these utilities,
you must first install and set up a DOS or Windows client workstation.
Then, you can set up the remaining Directory tree structure, create objects for all
network resources you want available in the Directory database, and create
Profile objects for maintenance purposes.
• Leaf objects. Place leaf objects in containers that provide the best access for
the resources, groups, and users that use them.