NetWare Directory Services

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Understanding NetWare Directory Services
The Hierarchical Directory Tree
Figure 2-1 Hierarchy of Directory Objects
These objects represent both physical and logical resources on the network,
such as users and printers or groups and print queues.
Directory objects are structures that store information, not the actual entity
represented by the object. For example, a Printer object stores information
about a specific printer and helps manage how the printer is used, but it is
not the actual printer itself.
This Directory tree structure has the tree growing upside down, starting with
the name of the tree or [Root] object at the top of the tree and branching
downward. Once the [Root] object is named, you reference that object by its
given name.
The following figure illustrates how objects can be laid out to form the
Directory tree.
Message Routing Group
External Entity
List
AFP Server
Alias
Computer
Directory Map
Group
NetWare Server
Organizational Role
Organizational Unit
Printer
Print Server
Profile
Print Queue
User
Volume
New objects