Moving container objects using NetWare Administrator

The following list describes the prerequesites:

• A 386 or later workstation and NetWare Administrator

• The Supervisor right to the object you want to move

• The Create object right to the destination container

1. From the Windows Program Manager or the OS/2 desktop, click on the ``NetWare Administrator'' icon.

2. From the Tools menu, choose Partition Manager.

3. From the ``Partition Manager'' browser, select the partition that you want to move.

   You can move a container object only if it is the Root of an NDS partition, and only if it contains no subordinate partitions.

   In Partition Manager, the partition icon appears to the left of the object icon. If the container you want to move is not a partition, select the container and choose ``Create as New Partition''.

4. From the Object menu, choose Move Partition.

5. Select the browser button to the right of the ``Destination'' box.

   Use the browser in the ``Directory Context'' box to view the Directory tree's containers.

   The ``Objects'' box that appears in the lower left corner shows the containers that you can select in the ``Directory Context'' box.

6. From the ``Objects'' box, select a container object (an Organization or Organizational Unit) as the location to move the listed objects to; then choose OK.

7. Choose ``Create Alias in Place of Moved Container''.

   The Alias object will point to the partition's new location.

8. In the ``Move'' dialog box, choose OK.

   If you choose to create an alias in place of the moved container, NetWare Administrator polls for the creation of the Alias object before it moves the selected partition.

   If you moved a container and created an alias in its place, you should use the NCUPDATE utility to update the name context of users in the moved container. See ``NCUPDATE'' for details.

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   NOTE: If you move a container object and do not create an alias, users who are unaware of the object's new location will not easily find the object in the Directory tree, since they will look for it in its original Directory location.

   Also, users may not be able to log in if the name context in their configuration file (NET.CFG file) references the moved container.

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