NetWare Directory Services

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Understanding NetWare Directory Services
The Hierarchical Directory Tree
Locality objects are optional. You can use them to designate the region where
your organization headquarters reside or, if you have a multinational network, to
designate each area that is a part of your network.
Locality objects can reside under Country, Organization, and Organizational
Unit objects. They can also hold Organization and Organizational Unit objects.
NOTE: The Locality object is not part of the NetWare default server installation. You can
create a Locality object during the server installation.
• Organization (O). An Organization object helps you organize other objects in
the Directory tree. It also allows you to set defaults for User objects you create in
the Organization object.
You can use an Organization object to designate a company, a division of a
company, a university or college with various departments, a department with
several project teams, etc.
Every Directory tree must contain at least one Organization object.
Organization objects must be placed directly below the [Root] object, unless a
Country or Locality object is used.
• Organizational Unit (OU). An Organizational Unit object helps you organize
leaf objects in the Directory tree. It allows you to set defaults in a login script and
to create a user template for User objects you create in the Organizational Unit.
You can use an Organizational Unit object to designate a business unit within a
company, a department within a division or university, a project team within a
department, etc.
This object is optional. When used, Organizational Units must be placed directly
below an Organization, another Organizational Unit, or a Locality object.
Leaf Objects
Directory leaf objects are objects that do not contain other objects. These
represent actual network entities such as users, servers, printers, computers,
etc.
You create leaf objects within a container object. The following figure lists
the leaf objects you can create. (The icons represent the leaf objects as they
appear in the NetWare Administrator graphical utility.) Please note that the
AFP Server object is not supported in NetWare Services.
See appendix B for more information.