Supervising the Network

4-6
Managing the NetWare Directory Services Tree
Creating and Managing Directory Services Partitions
Planning and Creating Partitions and Replicas
You can create additional partitions and replicas using NetWare
Administrator or PARTMGR in DOS or Windows. Instructions for using
these utilities are included in this section.
What Happens during Installation
By default, the installation utility adds a replica of the partition that contains
the server’s context only if the total of existing replicas is fewer than three.
However, if the server is not a NetWare 4™ server and contains bindery files
(SYS:SYSTEM\NET$*.SYS) a replica is added, regardless of the number of
replicas.
Read/Write Partition information can be read from and
written to this replica. For example, it can be used
to log in, add or delete objects, and view
directory information.
Read-Only Partition information can be read from this
replica, but it cannot be written to by anything
other than a read/write or master replica.
Users cannot authenticate to the network through
a read-only replica because the login process
changes the NDS database.
You cannot set a bindery context when you log in
to a read-only replica.
Subordinate If you add a read/write or read-only replica of the
child partition to the server, the subordinate
replica is removed.
This replica cannot be modified by any user. It is
automatically placed on a server by NDS if the
parent partition has a master, a read/write, or a
read-only replica on the server and the child
partition does not.
Replica Description