from
The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (8 July 2008)
Netware Directory Services
NDS
<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)