Removing NDS from a server

The following list describes the prerequesites:

• Access to scoadmin(1M) with System Owner privileges.

• The Supervisor object right to the NetWare Server object and its associated Volume objects.

• All of the server's volumes are mounted. Unmounted volumes will not get their Volume objects removed from the Directory database.

1. From scoadmin, select NetWare, then select the Directory Services Install utility.

2. From the ``Directory Services Install'' window, select ``Remove Directory Services from this Server'' and press <Enter>.

3. At the confirmation prompt, choose Yes.

   The ``Directory Services Login/Authentication'' screen appears.

4. Enter the password for User ADMIN in the ``Password'' field.

   After you enter the password, the server's mounted volumes are downgraded and a message displays the number of volumes affected. Then the system checks for Directory connections to other servers.

5. (Conditional) If this server contains a master replica, you must designate another server to hold the replica. Choose one of the following and press <Enter>:

   • Designate the server automatically.

     Directory Services Install finds the first server with a replica of this partition and changes its type to ``master''.

   • Designate the server yourself.

     Highlight the server where you want the master replica located.

     Press <F10> to save and continue.

   A message notifies you that the master replica has moved.

6. To continue, press <Enter>.

   Directory Services Install removes NDS and deletes the Server object and Volume objects associated with it from the Directory database.

   If a Directory link is down (such as another server containing objects from this server), you must use Partition Manager to delete the Server and Volume objects from the Directory database.

7. To exit Directory Services Install, return to the Directory Services Install main menu and select Exit.

8. Reset your time servers.

   Since you have removed NDS, you must update your time servers. See ``Updating your time servers'' for more information.

Updating your time servers

Now that Directory Services has been removed from your Single Reference time server, if other servers exist in this Directory tree, you must select the next Secondary time server that is polled to become the Single Reference time server so that your time servers will be synchronized.

To do this, change the ``Server Type'' variable in the scoadmin NetWare Setup utility.