Netware Directory Services


Netware Directory Services

(networking)(NDS) Novell, Inc.'s directory services forNetware, Windows NT, and Unix. The NDS directoryrepresents each network resource (user, hardware, orapplication) as an object of a certain class, where eachclass has certain properties. For example, User and PrintServer are object classes and a user has over 80 propertiessuch as name, login, password, department, and title.

The directory is hierarchical, divided into branches by rules of containment. A given object can only belong to a givencontainer (or branch). The rules governing classes,properties and, rules of containment are known as theschema.