Supervising the Network

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Managing the NetWare Directory Services Tree

Importing User Information into the NDS Database

See also

Department

Creating User Objects with the UIMPORT Utility

Prerequisites

• A workstation logged in to the network, running DOS 3.30 or above and using

NetWare 4.1 client software

• A minimum of 512 KB of memory available on the workstation

• The Create or Supervisor object right to the container object where the User

objects will be created

• The Create or Supervisor file system right to the directory where user home

directories will be created (if applicable)

Procedure

1 Generate a data file within your database application.

For general instructions, see “Generating the Data File” in this chapter. For

speciﬁc instructions, see the documentation accompanying your application.

2 Create an import control file.

If you have enough disk space, save this ﬁle in the same directory in which you

saved the data ﬁle. Otherwise, you will need to specify the path to both the data

ﬁle and the import control ﬁle when you run UIMPORT.

3 Run UIMPORT from the directory in which you saved the data file and the

import control file.

At the DOS command line, type

UIMPORT [control_file] [data_file] [/C] <Enter>

Replace control_ﬁle with the name of the import control ﬁle you created.

Replace data_ﬁle with the name of the data ﬁle you generated from your

database application. Use /C to run UIMPORT with continuous output.

If you do not run UIMPORT from a directory that contains both the import

control ﬁle and the data ﬁle, you must specify the path to each ﬁle.

Importing hundreds or thousands of users may take several hours. Therefore,

you might want to run UIMPORT at night.