NetWare Directory Services

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Implementing NetWare Directory Services
Implementing NDS on Various Sizes of Networks
Choose a limited number from the group of servers you identified to be
installed as Primary time servers. Limiting the number of Primary time
servers to a select few minimizes the network traffic used when the time
servers vote on the current time. Typically, you should have one or two
Primary time servers at each location on the network.
Set up remaining servers as Secondary time servers.
Partitions
Partitioning medium-sized networks should follow the structure of your
Organizational Unit objects. You might want to create a partition for each
high-level Organizational Unit in the tree.
This allows each partition to contain all the resource objects that a particular
department needs to access. Place the [Root] and Organization objects in the
same partition.
Replicas
Create replicas to ensure adequate redundancy of critical partitions.
Determine which servers within your organization provide system-wide
services, such as applications that are accessed by multiple departments or
the entire organization.
Place replicas of the partitions that include these critical servers on other
servers in different locations on the network. This allows all users to
authenticate to an enterprise resource without increasing network traffic.
For servers that provide local services, place replicas of the partitions that
include them on other local servers.
If only one server exists at a location, place a replica of the partition that
includes the server on a server in a different location. Provide additional
replicas if possible.
Large-Sized Network
Large-sized networks are enterprise focused, linking large, organizational
networks with many other equal- or smaller-sized networks. They require
flexibility, advanced security, and centralized management of distant
resources as well as local supervision.