SMS: Supported Naming Conventions for NDS Logon Point Creation

• Microsoft Systems Management Server version 2.0

SUMMARY

For a Systems Management Server 2.0 site to successfully create a client access point (CAP) and logon point on a NetWare Directory Services (NDS) volume, there are certain naming conventions that must be followed. This article documents the required naming conventions.

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Tree Names

• The NDS tree can contain up to 32 ASCII characters. Accepted characters are a-z, A-Z, 0-9, hyphen ("-"), and the underscore ("_").



• The NDS tree can NOT start or end with an underscore character, nor can it contain two consecutive underscores (__).



• The NDS tree name can NOT contain any spaces.

Container and Volume Names

• They may not contain any of the following:
  
  
  • Slashes ("/")
  
  
  
  • Backslashes ("\")
  
  
  
  • Colons (":")
  
  
  
  • Commas (",")
  
  
  
  • Asterisks ("*")
  
  
  
  • Question marks ("?")
  
  
  



• Object names are NOT case-sensitive.

Distinguished Names

• Distinguished names MUST contain an Organization (O); this is the top level of the Systems Management Server tree.



• Use of the Country (C) in distinguished names is optional. If the C is used, it cannot be longer than two characters.

Additional query words: prodsms nwroles

Keywords : kbNDS kbNovell
Version : winnt:2.0
Platform : winnt
Issue type : kbinfo