Sample object naming standards

In our examples, we have tried to create relatively short names. This helps keep the context short and reduces data traffic as NDS searches for specific objects.

If you have already chosen a different format to name users or servers in an existing NetWare 3 network, you might want to use those names as a starting point as you implement your NetWare 4 network.

Directory Map

Name Directory Map objects after the application or process being mapped. For example, WordPerfect^® application files would be mapped with a Directory Map named DM-WP.

Group

Base group names on the function performed by the group. For example, a word processing group could be named GP-WP.

Organization and Organizational Unit

Choose your Organization and Organizational Unit names based on your organization's abbreviations of unit names. For example, an organization with the name WIDGET, with a business unit called ASG, and a division called NCS would set a context in the Directory tree as OU=NCS.OU=ASG.O=WIDGET.

Organizational Role

For security purposes, always use the Organizational Role object to grant administrative rights. The Organizational Role object can be used in any situation where changes in personnel might be frequent or when an error in controlling rights would pose a grave security risk to the organization. For example, a container administrative organizational role could be named OR-NCSADMIN.

Printer

Use a three-character location code (such as the airline city code) followed by the mail stop and the printer type for a printer name. For example, a LaserJet 4 Si would be named PRV-E232-LJ4SI. A duplex LaserJet 4 Si in the same location would be named PRV-E232-LJ4SID.

Print Queue and Print Server

A print queue and print server name should start with the characters PS and PQ. The rest of the name should contain the department server name and a number for each print server or print queue. For example, a print server could be named PS-NCS001-1 and service print queues named PQ-NCS001-1 and PQ-NCS001-2.

Profile

Base profile names on the function supplied by the profile. For example, the profile in a container providing all the required mappings for the departmental users could be named PF-NCSMAP.

Server

Use a set of three-character codes (for the location, division, and server) for a server name. Use the airline city code as the three-character location code. This code is widely recognized because all commercial airports in the world have one. Therefore, a server located in Provo, Utah, and used by NCS would be named PRV-NCS-001.

Server names must be unique. So if you have one server named ACCTG, you cannot have another server with that same name anywhere on the network. (This is a restriction of SAP rather than NDS.)

User

Restrict usernames to eight characters to match the email name length. The email name consists of the first letter of the first name, followed by the last name. For example, Bill Smith becomes BSMITH.

If more than one person with the same first initial and last name exists, add the middle initial as the second character of the name. For example, Bill Smith could be BSMITH and Beverly Lynn Smith could be BLSMITH.