networking (NDS)
Novell, Inc.'s directory services for
Netware,
Windows NT, and
Unix. The NDS directory represents each
network resource (user, hardware, or application) as an
object of a certain
class, where each class has certain properties. For example, User and Print Server are object classes and a user has over 80 properties such 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 given container (or branch). The rules governing classes, properties and, rules of containment are known as the
schema.
(2001-03-20)