NetWare 5.1 Admin - Study Tips

NetWare 5.1 Admin - Study Tips

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Know how to use both NetWare Administrator and ConsoleOne.
Using distinguished names versus relative distinguished names will always work because you are providing the full path to the object. Write the command out as you normally would and identify the part of the command that is the object. Write out the distinguished name and replace the relative name with the distinguished name in the command.
Inheritance is when rights are granted to a directory in the file system or a container in the NDS the rights from that point will flow down to all files and sub-directories or all containers and leaf objects below. Inheritance only flows down from where the trustee assignment was granted.
When setting an Inheritance Rights Filter (IRF), think of the filter sitting on top of the object, directory or file – filtering out rights flowing in to it. This filter affects everyone who may have rights – it cannot be selective as to who you filter rights from.

Rights never flow from the file system in to the NDS.
Rights will flow from the NDS in to the file system when someone has the Supervisor object right or the Write property right to the Object Trustee (ACL) property to the Server object. They will have all file rights including Supervisor to all volumes that belong to that server.
Remember the Supervisor right in the NDS can be removed with an IRF (Inheritable Right Filter) and can be removed at a lower level with a new trustee assignment. It cannot be removed at a lower level in the file system.

An assignment of rights to All Properties will grant those rights to every property of that object.
An assignment to Selected Properties will grant rights only to the properties selected where more or less rights were granted. An assignment to a selected property will overwrite rights granted to All Properties for that particular property.
Selected Properties overwrite All Properties - both can be inherited.

NDPS has 4 components.

1. NDPS Broker – which has 3 services.

SRS - Service Registry Services - registers information of Public Access Printers.
ENS -Event Notification Services - configurations for print job and printer notification. Notification can be configured for email, pop-up menus, and creation of log-files.
RMS - Resource Management Services – A database of printer drivers; banners; printer definitions and fonts.

2. NDPS Manager - which manages Printer Agents

3. Printer Agent - A Printer Agent is created for each printer.

Two types of printers can be configured for NDPS.

Public Access Printer – available to the Public (everyone)
Controlled Access Printer - gives you control of the printer and who can use it.

4. Gateway - translates NDPS queries to printer specific language.

Policy Packages

There are three types of policy package objects that can be created:

A policy associated to an object (user or workstation) takes precedence over a policy associated to a group, which takes precedence over a policy associated to a container.
If the user has both workstation and user policy packages associated with it, the user policy packages apply first.
Effective policies work like effective rights. They are the total sum of all enabled policies in all policy packages associated directly or indirectly to an object. ZENworks looks up the tree for effective policies at the leaf objects and goes up towards the root of the tree). The first enabled policy it finds wins.