Supervising the Network

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Managing the NetWare Directory Services Tree
Importing User Information into the NDS Database
However, if your application uses quotation marks as the default delimiter, you
must change the delimiter to a different character or tell your application to use
no delimiter.
If you use a different character, you must specify in the import control file the
replacement character you use. (See Table 4-1.)
Required “Name” Field
One of the fields required to create new user objects in the NDS database is
name. If you do not have a field in your database that records each
individual’s login name, you have a few options:
• You can create a login name field within your application (and assign each
individual a unique eight-character login name) before generating the data file.
This option is recommended.
• You can generate the data file and then add a unique login name field to each
string of user information in the data file.
• You can use an existing field in your application to represent the login name field.
For example, you may have a field of employee or ID numbers. You can generate
the data file and import the unique numbers into NDS as user login names. (Keep
in mind that numbers are not as easy to recognize or manage as names.)
Creating the Import Control File
You can create the import control file using any text editor under DOS.
This file controls how the information in the data file will be imported into
the NDS database and determines which fields (called properties in NDS)
the data will be placed in. The import control file contains two types of
information:
• Control parameters define characters used in the data file and specify how data is
updated.
Control parameters are explained in Table 4-1. Field definitions are explained in
Table 4-2.
• Field definitions determine where data is put in the NDS database (which
properties the fields are imported into).
Use these guidelines to create the control file:
• Enter control parameters first, followed by field definitions, as follows: