NetWare Administrator

Supervise the network.

Description

Use the NetWare Administrator at a Windows or OS/2 workstation to perform the supervisory tasks you would perform using FILER, NETADMIN, PARTMGR, and PCONSOLE. You can do the following with NetWare Administrator:

• create network users and groups

• create and delete NDS objects

• assign rights in the directory tree and in the file system

• set up printing services

• set up and manage NDS partitions

Usage

Before you use NetWare Administrator, you must create a NetWare Administrator icon. (See Supervising the network.

Help

For help, choose the Help button on the screen, press <F1>, or use the pull-down Help menu.

The menu bar

The menu bar displays headings for several menus. To complete a task, select an object in the browser, select a menu heading, and then choose an option from the menu bar.

When you select an option, a message in the title bar explains what the option does. If an option is grayed, it is not available for the object you selected.

The browser

NetWare Administrator's primary window is a browser that displays NDS container objects and leaf objects at your current context in the directory tree.

You can open up to nine additional browsers. (You might want to open an additional browser to see a different context in the directory tree.)

To open another browser, select a container object (this will be the root object in the browser window) and then from the Tools menu, select Browser.

Working with objects

• To view the file system of a server in your tree, double-click on the Volume object associated with that server

  For example, to see the file system in volume SYS: of server KATT, double-click on the Volume object ``KATT_SYS''.

• To open a container object and view the objects in it:

  • double-click anywhere on the container object's name or icon

  • select the container object and from the View menu, choose Expand

• To view the object dialog (object details) of a container object:

  • select the container object and from the Object menu, choose Details

  • select the container object, right-click once, and choose Details from the menu

• To view the object dialog (object details) of a leaf object:

  • select the leaf object and double-click

  • select the leaf object and from the Object menu, choose Details

  • select the leaf object, right-click once, and choose Details from the menu

The object dialog

The object dialog allows you to view and edit information about an object's properties.

To select information you want to see, choose a page button from the right side of the dialog. (The pages are part of one dialog. When you select a different page, you are still in the same dialog.)

Warning that you are out of connections

You might receive this error in the following scenarios:

• An attempt is made to establish a connection to a server when the number of supported connections on the client side has already been reached.

  In this situation, run NWUSER to see which servers the client is connected to. Determine if there is a connections that is not being used and log out of that server. This frees up a connection, enabling you to proceed.

  However, if this is a recurring problem, you may need to edit the NET.CFG file to increase the number of network connections that the client will support.

• An attempt is made to establish a connection to a server when the number of available connections the server has to give has already been reached.

  In this situation, run NWUSER to see which servers the client is connected to. The client might already have one or more connections to the server. If so, log out of that server and then try to establish the connection again.

  If NWUSER does not show connections to that server, wait until that server has an available connection.

Additional information

For more information on managing container objects with NetWare Administrator, see ``Setting up and managing NDS objects''. Printing with NetWare Administrator is described in ``The NetWare administrator utility''. See ``Creating and managing Directory Services partitions'' for details on using the partition manager in NetWare Administrator.