netware directory services

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)