Supervising the Network

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Managing the NetWare Directory Services Tree
Removing NetWare Directory Services from a Server
WARNING: Removing NDS may corrupt your Directory database. You must remove NDS if
you are reformatting this server’s hard drive. Do not remove NDS unless
Technical Support advises you to remove NDS from the server.
Removing NDS from a Server
Prerequisites
• Access to the server console and superuser privileges.
• The Supervisor object right to the NetWare Server object and its associated
Volume objects.
• Make sure all the server’s volumes are mounted. Unmounted volumes will not
get their Volume objects removed from the Directory database.
Procedure
1 Run the dsinstall utility.
2 From the “Directory Services Install” window, select “Remove Directory
Services from this Server” and press <Enter>.
3 At the confirmation prompt, choose “Yes.”
The “Directory Services Login/Authentication” screen appears.
4 Type the password for User ADMIN in the “Password” field and press <Enter>.
After you enter the password, the server’s mounted volumes are downgraded
and a message displays the number of volumes affected. Then the system checks
for Directory connections to other servers.
5 (Conditional) If this server contains a master replica, you must designate another
server to hold the replica. Choose one of the following and press <Enter>:
• Designate the server automatically.
Directory Services Install finds the first server with a replica of this partition
and changes its type to “master.”
• Designate the server yourself.
Highlight the server where you want the master replica located.
Press <F10> to save and continue.
A message notifies you that the master replica has moved.
6 To continue, press <Enter>.