NetWare Directory Services

4-2
Understanding Bindery Services
Overview
Overview
This chapter describes management procedures for setting up and
maintaining bindery services (also called bindery emulation) when you
implement the NetWare® Directory Services™ (NDS) technology on your
network.
The following topics are discussed on the indicated pages:
Some applications and services which run in the NetWare 4™ environment
do not currently take full advantage of NDS™ technology. Novell created
bindery services to allow users in these environments access to NetWare 4
services.
With bindery services, NDS imitates a flat structure for leaf objects within
an Organization or Organizational Unit object. Thus, when bindery services
is enabled, all objects within the specified container can be accessed by NDS
objects and by bindery-based servers and client workstations.
CAUTION: Bindery services applies only to leaf objects in the specified container object.
The container object where bindery services is set is called the bindery
context. To enable bindery services, you can use the SAM utility or the
nwcm command line utility (see “nwcm” in Utilities Reference).
The following figure illustrates bindery services when an Organizational
Unit object is specified as the bindery context.
Topic Page
Planning Bindery Services 4-5
Setting a Bindery Context 4-7