Netware Directory Services

networking (NDS) Novell, Inc.'s directory services for

Netware, Windows NT, and Unix. The NDS directory

represents each network resource (user, hardware, or

application) as an object of a certain class, where each

class has certain properties. For example, User and Print

Server are object classes and a user has over 80 properties

such as name, login, password, department, and title.

The directory is hierarchical, divided into branches by rulesof containment. A given object can only belong to a given

container (or branch). The rules governing classes,

properties and, rules of containment are known as the

schema.

(2001-03-20)