NetWare Directory Services

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Understanding NetWare Directory Services
Context and Names
For example, name servers for their function within a specific organization, and
name printers for their type and location.
• Use Alias objects for accessing objects not in current contexts. Alias objects point
to objects that exist elsewhere in the tree.
For example, if RJONES wants to use Accounting’s printer, you can create an
Alias object for that printer and put it in RJONES’ context.
This way, RJONES can find the printer in his own context, and he doesn’t have
to remember the longer “real” name of that printer.
• Avoid using spaces in names.
Spaces in object names appear as underscores in some utilities.
In other utilities, you might have to enclose the name in quotation marks to
avoid having the utilities treat the two-word name as two separate commands or
objects.
Common Names
All leaf objects in the Directory tree have a common name. For User objects,
the common name is the login name displayed in the Directory tree. For
example, the common name for Edwin Sayer’s User object is ESAYERS.
Other leaf objects also have common names displayed in the Directory tree.
See “Common Name” in Concepts for more information.
Name Types
Names in the Directory tree have two name types: typeful and typeless. A
typeful name includes the name type (OU, O, etc.) of each object in the
Distinguished Name of an object. A typeless name excludes the name type
for each object.
A name type distinguishes the specific object you are referring to, such as a
User object or an Organizational Unit container object. For example, the
following typeless name
ESAYERS.DESIGN.LONDON.MFG.ACME.US
is expressed with name types as
CN=ESAYERS.OU=DESIGN.OU=LONDON.OU=MFG.O=ACME.C=US