Chapter 5 NetWare Directory Services

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This chapter includes detailed instructions about how to install NDS onto your server and connect to an NDS tree:

As the first server in a new tree
As a new server into a single existing tree
As a new server into a tree in a multiple directory of trees.

It also includes information about Nonlocatable Directory Trees, Directory Tree Structure and Trustee Assignments.

Installing a server into an NDS tree, requires the understanding of a few basic concepts such as directory trees, time synchronization, and NetWare services administrator. These terms are described below.

Directory Tree

Each Directory tree must have a name that is unique across the internetwork. (Most organizations have only one Directory tree.)

The tree name enables clients to

Access data on multiple servers in a Directory tree without logging in to each server.
Log in to different Directory trees by specifying the tree name.

Time Synchronization

Time synchronization is important to NDS, because it

Monitors and adjusts a NetWare server's internal time to ensure consistency of reported time across the network.
Indicates when a server's time is synchronized with the rest of the network.
Provides timestamps to establish the order of events in the Directory.
WARNING! Setting up time synchronization incorrectly can cause network synchronization problems within the Directory database.

For more information on time synchronization, see "Understanding Time Synchronization in NDS" in Introduction to NetWare Directory Services, "Managing Network Time Synchronization" in Supervising the Network, and "Time Synchronization" in Concepts.

NetWare Services Administrator

The default common name (CN) for the administrator of the first NetWare Services server in a Directory tree is ADMIN. The installation program creates this User object ADMIN directly under the Organization (O=) level.

The administrator can

Manage this Server object.
Manage User objects in this container.
Manage the Directory tree (applies only to ADMIN created on the first NetWare Services server).

You can change the name of user ADMIN using the NETADMIN (or NetWare Administrator) utility after the server is installed and you have set up a workstation.

For more detailed information on NDS, see Introduction to NetWare Directory Services.

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