NOVELL TECHNICAL INFORMATION DOCUMENT

TITLE:              Directory Service Quick Tips
DOCUMENT ID:        TID021875
DOCUMENT REVISION:  F
DATE:               01FEB95
ALERT STATUS:       Yellow
INFORMATION TYPE:   Symptom Solution
README FOR:         DSTIPS.EXE

NOVELL PRODUCT and VERSION:
NetWare 4.01
NetWare 4.02

ABSTRACT:

This file contains files TIPS.WP6 (WordPerfect v6.0) TIPS.WP5 (WordPerfect
v5.x), and TIPS.TXT (ascii text).  These files contain Quick tips as provided
by the Novell Directory Services Engineering and Education Teams.  This
revision of the file contains tips up to TIP #45.  Associated files NSDERROR
are the error codes referred to in tip #19, and DSTRACE are the dstrace
commands referred to in tip #45.

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SYMPTOM

Users wanting more information regarding Directory Services and DS issues in
general.


SOLUTION

Referred to included files for quick tips.  Included in this file are Quick
Tips 1 - 45.

Self-Extracting File Name:  DSTIPS.EXE     Revision:  F

Files Included     Size     Date      Time

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  DSTIPS.TXT         (This File)
    TIPS.TXT      60824   02-01-95   12:46p
    TIPS.WP5      90528   02-01-95    2:00p
    TIPS.WP6      75727   02-01-95   12:45p
  QFINAL.TXT       9914   02-01-95    1:56p
  QFINAL.WP5      21136   02-01-95    2:00p
  QFINAL.WP6      21928   01-31-95    3:27p
 DSTRACE.TXT       4284   02-01-95    1:53p
 DSTRACE.WP5       8105   02-01-95    1:58p
 DSTRACE.WP6       9371   01-31-95    3:47p
NDSERROR.TXT      19185   02-01-95    1:56p
NDSERROR.WP5      21092   02-01-95    1:59p
NDSERROR.WP6      37718   02-01-95    1:58p


The tips included are the following:

TIP #      Synopsis

  1. Partitions and Replicas
  2. Administrative partition rights
  3. Partition size - Pros & Cons
  4. Limit of number of objects in a container
  5. More on limits
  6. Partitioning with a "Dead Server" - Tip 1 response
  7. Upgrade to 4.02 ????
  8. Interoperability
  9. NetWare Server - Name or IPX address change
 10. 4 types of replicas
 11. DS.NLM - association with SERVER.EXE
 12. Partition operations
 13. Reasons for efficient placement of a root partition
 14. "Sub-Admins"
 15. Masking rights 
 16. Bindery Emulation
 17. Login /B  ???? 
 18. 4 NDS Partitions - external references
 19. Error codes -  NDSERROR
 20. Login without a root partition
 21. Tree of replicas per server
 22. Compatibility 4.01/4.02/4.10
 23. A NetWare v3.11 Guest equivalent
 24. Masking rights to specific property?
 25. The Country object
 26. Login through an ALIAS??
 27. Benefits of an ALIAS object
 28. ALIAS backup - real object restore
 29. Building trees to be merged
 30. NETSYNC
 31. Password for RConsole
 32. Sap Codes in NW 4
 33. Types of Connections
 34. Move Subtree
 35. Migrating a tree to a Country Object
 36. Remote password
 37. NetSync and Multiple Bindery Path
 38. Deleting a SubRef Replica
 39. Users with Supervisory rights at root of volume??
 40. DSREPAIR Server centric
 41. Country Code usage
 42. Multiple Trees
 43. -601 Errors
 44. College Bowl questions/answers - QFINAL
 45. DSTRACE commands - DSTRACE

Installation Instructions:

Extract DSTIP.EXE file and use/print file of choice.

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