Supervising the Network

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Managing the NetWare Services File System

Creating Directories and Copying Files

After you plan your directory structure for each NetWare volume, you can

create directories and subdirectories to organize data and applications. (If

you have not created the volume, see “Maintaining Volumes” in Chapter 7.)

You can use one of several tools to divide a NetWare volume into

directories, for example, use NetWare Administrator, or FILER, or MKDIR

(MD) to do this.

Two methods of creating directories and copying ﬁles (NetWare

Administrator and FILER) are documented in this section.

Creating Directories Using NetWare Administrator

Prerequisites

• A 386 or later workstation and NetWare Administrator

• The Create right to the parent directory of the new directory

Procedure

1 From the Windows Program Manager, click on the “NetWare Administrator”

icon.

2 Using the browser, select the directory to be the parent directory of the one you

want to create.

To create a root directory, select the Volume object. For more about moving

around in the browser and selecting objects, choose “Help” from the menu bar.

For a list of directories and ﬁles on a volume, select “View/Set Context” and

specify the volume name.

3 From the “Object” menu, choose “Create.”

4 Enter the name for the new directory in the “Create Directory” dialog box.

5 (Optional) If you want to enter properties for the directory, choose “Define

Additional Properties.”

Choose this item to assign properties to the new directory now. You can add or

modify properties after the directory is created. Properties include items such as

trustees and access rights.