Supervising the Network

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Managing the NetWare Services File System

Planning Directory Structures

System-Created Directories

During NetWare Services installation, some directories are created

automatically.

• SYS:ETC contains sample files to help you configure the server.

• SYS:LOGIN contains the programs necessary for users to log in to the network,

such as LOGIN.EXE. The SYS:LOGIN directory has a subdirectory named NLS

that contains subdirectories for each supported language of login message files.

• SYS:MAIL may or may not contain subdirectories or files. The SYS:MAIL

directory may contain mail programs used by NetWare.

• SYS:SYSTEM contains NetWare operating-system files as well as NetWare

utilities and programs for the supervisor. The SYS:SYSTEM directory also has

an NLS subdirectory, containing subdirectories for each supported language of

message files.

• SYS:PUBLIC allows general access to the network and contains NetWare

utilities and programs for network users. Like SYS:LOGIN, SYS:PUBLIC has a

an NLS subdirectory containing the message files for utilities.

• SYS:DOC contains electronic versions of the NetWare Services manuals. This

directory is created if you install DynaText.* See Installation Handbook for

information.

Workstation Operating-System Directories

You may want to put the workstation operating-system ﬁles on the network

to save workstation disk space or to make diskless workstations possible.

Since the workstation operating-system ﬁles do not normally change, you

can keep them on one set of backup diskettes and then skip these directories

when doing network backups.

For information about loading operating system software on a network, see

“Loading Operating Systems and Applications onto the Network” in this

chapter.

Application Directories

For ease of management, you should keep application ﬁles in a different

directory than data ﬁles.