NetWare Directory Services

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Planning NetWare Directory Services Implementation
First Steps
First Steps
To begin planning your Directory tree, look first at your organization’s
structure, functions, geography, and needs. NetWare Directory Services is
designed to reflect a hierarchical structure.
Generally, this means that your Directory tree will be patterned according to
some logical structure of your organization or locale, whether or not that
structure is formal. Try to simplify the hierarchy as much as possible.
For example, if your organization is formally divided into departments, you
might decide to structure your Directory tree by departments as well.
On the other hand, if people in several departments work together on long-
term projects and need access to common resources, it might make more
sense to divide your tree by project teams instead of departments.
When planning your Directory tree, also consider who will be running the
network. With NetWare 4™, you can centralize network administration so
that a single person or small group of people control the entire network.
You can also distribute administration so that many network supervisors
throughout the enterprise or organization control their own portion of the
Directory tree.
If network administration will be distributed, everyone who will be
administering the network must be involved in the planning.
See Appendix C, “NDS Object Classes and Properties.”
Creating Directory Tree Maps
We recommend creating two maps of the tree when planning. The first and
most important is a logical map of the tree—in other words, names and
placement of Organizational Units and other objects.
The second is a physical map of the placement of replicas—in other words, a
view of every server and what replicas are stored on each.
The following illustration shows partial examples of these maps.