About NetWare Directory Services

NetWare Directory Services (NDS) is a distributed database that provides global access to all network resources regardless of where they are located physically. Users log in to a multiserver network and view the entire network as a single information system.

This single information system is the basis for increased productivity and reduced administrative costs. You can manage NDS by using the utilities and programs described in this topic.

The following utilities and programs help you maintain the NDS database.

• The Partition Management utilities allow you to distribute your NDS database by placing replicas of partitions of the database on different servers.

  The PARTMGR text utility and NetWare Administrator are available to help you manage the database partitions and replicas. You can also remove NDS from a server using the scoadmin(1M) Directory Sevices Install utility.

• The UIMPORT utility allows you to import information from an existing database (any database capable of converting records to an ASCII file will work) to the NDS database. Use this utility and your database records to create, delete, and update User objects and their properties.

• The scoadmin Directory Services Repair utility checks and repairs local portions of the database, similar to the way VREPAIR fixes volumes on a server.

• The DSTRACE utility allows you to determine whether NDS synchronization processes are complete and to diagnose NDS errors.