Supervising the Network

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Setting Up and Managing NetWare Directory Services Objects
Creating Container Objects
The following rules apply to most objects. For specific rules about naming
leaf objects, see “Naming Leaf Objects.”
Object Naming Rules
Remember these rules when naming an object:
• The name must be unique in the branch (container) of the Directory tree where
the object is located.
• The object name can be up to 64 characters in length, except for Country objects,
which are limited to two characters.
• You can use any special characters. But if the object needs to be accessed from a
client running a version of NetWare earlier than NetWare 4.1, you should avoid
using special characters. (For a list of these characters, see “Object Name
Restrictions for Bindery Services.”)
• You can enter object names in either uppercase or lowercase. Object names are
displayed with uppercase and lowercase letters as they were first entered, but they
are not case sensitive. Therefore, “ManagerProfile” and “MANAGERPROFILE”
are considered to be identical names.
• You can use spaces and underscores, but they are both considered spaces.
Therefore, “Manager_Profile” and “Manager Profile” are considered to be
identical names.
NOTE: If you anticipate managing objects created from different code pages, you must limit
object names and properties to those characters common to all the applicable code
tables.
Nondisplayable Unicode* characters for your code page are represented by an ASCII
3 character (a “heart” symbol). For more information, see “Unicode” in Concepts.
Object Name Restrictions for Bindery Services
When you create objects to be accessed from a client running a version of
NetWare earlier than NetWare 4.1, the names of the objects must follow
bindery naming rules or else the non-NetWare 4.1 client will not recognize
them. Object names in bindery services are interpreted as the following:
• Spaces in object names are replaced by underscores.
• Object names longer than 47 characters are cut off after the 47th character.