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Account Management Overview. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
NDS eDirectory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
Supported Platforms. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
Account Management . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
Supported Platforms. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
More Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
Installing or Upgrading NDS eDirectory on NetWare . . . . . . 9
System Requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
Hardware Requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
Forcing the Backlink Process to Run . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
Installing NDS eDirectory on NetWare . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
Prerequisites . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
Updating the NDS Schema . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
Installing the Support Pack . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
Installing NDS eDirectory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
Lost Trustee Assignments on NFS Gateway Volumes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
Installing or Upgrading NDS eDirectory on Windows
NT/2000 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
System Requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
Hardware Requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
Forcing the Backlink Process to Run . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
Installing NDS eDirectory on Windows NT/2000 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
Prerequisites . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
Updating the NDS Schema . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
Installing NDS eDirectory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
Installing NDS eDirectory on Solaris . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
System Requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
Hardware Requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
Forcing the Backlink Process to Run . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
Prerequisites . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
Installing Account Management on Solaris . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
Installing NDS eDirectory on Linux. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
System Requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
Hardware Requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
Forcing the Backlink Process to Run . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30

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Prerequisites . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
Installing Account Management on Linux. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
Installing NDS eDirectory on Tru64 UNIX . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
System Requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
Hardware Requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
Forcing the Backlink Process to Run . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36
Prerequisites . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36
Installing Account Management on Tru64 UNIX . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
Installing Account Management on Windows NT . . . . . . . . 41
System Requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
Installing Account Management on Windows NT. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
Integrating Windows NT Domains with NDS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42
Installing ConsoleOne . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42
Upgrading from a Previous Version . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42
Installing Account Management on Solaris . . . . . . . . . . . . 45
System Requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45
Installing Account Management on Solaris . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45
Installing Account Management on Linux. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49
System Requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49
Installing Account Management on Linux. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49

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Account Management Overview
Account Management OverviewAccount Management Overview
Account Management Overview
Account Management is a full-service, platform-independent directory that serves as the
foundation for many directory-enabled services. Account Management is composed of
the following products:
!NDS®eDirectoryTM
!Account Management
NDS eDirectory
NDS eDirectory is a highly scalable, high-performing, secure directory service. It can
store and manage millions of directory objects. NDS eDirectory natively supports the
directory standard LDAP 3 over Secure Socket Layer (SSL).
SUPPORTED PLATFORMS
"NetWare®
"Windows* NT*
"Windows 2000
"Solaris*
"Linux*
"Tru64 UNIX*
Account Management
Account Management is a directory-enabled application that simplifies and unifies the
management of user profiles on Windows NT, Solaris, and Linux networks. It leverages all
the scalability, utility, and extensibility of NDS eDirectory and adds crucial integration
capability. With Account Management, you can eliminate many of the complexities of
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"Windows NT
"Solaris
"Linux
More Information
For more information on Account Management, refer to the following sources:
!Product information (http://www.novell.com/products/nds)
!Product support (http://support.novell.com)
!Online forums (news://forums.novell.com)
!Product catalog (http://www.novell.com/catalog)
!Product documentation (http://www.novell.com/documentation)

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Installing or Upgrading NDS
Installing or Upgrading NDSInstalling or Upgrading NDS
Installing or Upgrading NDS
eDirectory on NetWare
eDirectory on NetWareeDirectory on NetWare
eDirectory on NetWare
Use the following instructions to install or upgrade NDS®eDirectoryTM on a NetWare®
server.
NDS eDirectory for NetWare can co-exist with the following NDS versions:
!NetWare 4.11 or 4.2 with NDS 6.09 or later
!NetWare 5 Support Pack 5 or later with Pre-NDS 8 7.46 or later
!NetWare 5 Support Pack 5 or later with NDS 8.35 or later
!NetWare 5.1 Support Pack 1
!Windows* NT* 4.0 Support Pack 4 or Windows 2000 with eDirectory 8.38 or later
!NDS eDirectory 8.5 on NetWare, Solaris, Linux, and Tru64 UNIX*
System Requirements
"If you are using RCONSOLE, a ConsoleOneTM administrator workstation with the
following:
!A 200 MHz or faster processor
!A minimum of 64 MB RAM (128 MB recommended)
"The Novell®ClientTM that shipped with NetWare 5 or later.
"The Novell Cryptography Support Modules (Novell International Cryptographic
Infrastructure [NICI] 1.5.1 or later), available from the product CD or from the Novell
Cryptography Web site (http://www.novell.com/products/cryptography).
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Hardware Requirements
Hardware requirements depend on the specific implementation of NDS.
For example, a base installation of NDS eDirectory with the standard schema requires
about 74 MB of disk space for every 50,000 users. However, if you add a new set of
attributes or completely fill in every existing attribute, the object size grows. These
additions affect the disk space, processor, and memory needed.
Two factors increase performance: more cache memory and faster processors.
For best results, cache as much of the DIB Set as the hardware allows.
NDS scales well on a single processor. However, NDS eDirectory 8.5 takes advantage of
multiple processors. Adding processors improves performance in some areas, for
example, logins and having multiple threads active on multiple processors. NDS itself is
not processor-intensive, but it is I/O-intensive.
The following table illustrates typical system requirements for NDS eDirectory for
NetWare:
Requirements for processors might be greater than the table indicates, depending upon
additional services available on the computer as well as the number of authentications,
reads, and writes that the computer is handling. Processes such as encryption and
indexing can be processor-intensive.
Of course, faster processors improve performance. Additional memory also improves
performance because NDS can then cache more of the directory into memory.
Forcing the Backlink Process to Run
Because the internal NDS identifiers change when upgrading to NDS eDirectory, the
backlink process has to update backlinked objects for them to be consistent.
Objects Processor Memory Hard Disk
100,000 Pentium* III 450-700 MHz
(single)
384 MB 144 MB
1 million Pentium III 450-700 MHz
(dual)
2 GB 1.5 GB
10 million Pentium III 450-700 MHz (2 to
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Backlinks keep track of external references to objects on other servers. For each external
reference on a server, the backlink process ensures that the real object exists in the
correct location and verifies all backlink attributes on the master of the replica. The
backlink process occurs two hours after the database is open and then every 780 minutes
(13 hours). The interval is configurable from 2 minutes to 10,080 minutes (7 days).
After migrating to NDS, we recommend that you force the backlink to run by issuing a
SET DSTRACE=*B command from the server console. Running the backlink process is
especially important on servers that do not contain a replica.
Installing NDS eDirectory on NetWare
If your NDS tree does not have a Novell Certificate ServerTM, the NDS installation
program does the following:
!Creates a Security container object for the entire NDS tree
This object is created at the top of the NDS tree and must remain there.
!Creates an Organizational Certificate Authority (CA) object
!Places the Organizational CA object in the Security container
Only one Organizational CA object can exist in an NDS tree. Because you must not move
this object from one server to another, ensure that the first NDS server is the one that you
intend to permanently host the Organizational CA object.
PREREQUISITES
If you are installing NDS eDirectory for NetWare into an NDS tree that has NetWare and
NT servers, each NetWare server must be running NetWare 5.0 with Support Pack 4 or
later. Each NetWare 5.1 server must be running NetWare 5.1 Support Pack 1 or later.
UPDATING THE NDS SCHEMA
To upgrade an existing NetWare 5.xserver to NDS eDirectory into an existing tree,
update the NDS schema by running DSREPAIR on the server that has the master replica
of the Tree partition.
NOTE: The [Root] object, used in earlier versions of NDS, has been renamed to Tree in
NDS eDirectory 8.5.
IMPORTANT: If the master replica of the Tree partition resides on an NT server, follow
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If one or both of the following conditions exist, you must run DSREPAIR.NLM before
installing the first NDS eDirectory server in your tree:
!Anywhere in your tree, a NetWare 5 server is running NDS 8 or NDS 8 NetWare
Update.
!Your first installation of NDS eDirectory is on a NetWare 5 server that does not hold
a writable replica of the Tree partition.
To update the NDS schema:
1
11
1Copy the appropriate DSREPAIR.NLM file from the product CD to the SYS:\SYSTEM
directory of the server that contains the master replica of the Tree partition.
2
22
2At the server console of the master replica of the Tree partition, load DSREPAIR.NLM
> select Advanced Options Menu > Global Schema Operations > Post NetWare 5
Schema Update.
3
33
3Enter the Admin name (for example, .Admin.VMP) and password.
This step updates the schema and posts the results to a log file.
Ignore errors associated with adding object classes. DSREPAIR.NLM is simply
applying the Post NetWare 5 Schema Update changes to each object.
4
44
4Using the table in Step 1 as a reference, copy the appropriate patch version of
DSREPAIR.NLM to each NetWare server in the NDS tree.
This step ensures that the schema needed for NDS eDirectory is properly maintained
when DSREPAIR.NLM is run in the future.
For This Version of
NetWare
With This Version of
NDS
Copy
4.11 6.09 or later \PATCHES\DSREPAIR
\NW4X\DSREPAIR.NLM,
(version 4.70 or later)
5.0 or later NDS 7.46 or later \PATCHES\DSREPAIR
\NW5X\DSREPAIR.NLM,
(version 5.26 or later)
5.0 or later 8.11 or 8.17 Not supported
5.0 or later 8.35 or later \PATCHES\DSREPAIR
\NWNDS8\DSREPAIR.NLM,
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If you use an earlier version of DSREPAIR.NLM and select Rebuild Operational
Schema, schema enhancements made by the Post NetWare 5 Schema Update will
be lost. To resolve lost schema enhancements, run DSREPAIR.NLM according to the
following table:
This action resynchronizes the schema from the root of the tree.
5
55
5Close DSREPAIR.NLM before installing NDS eDirectory on the server.
If DSREPAIR.NLM is loaded, the server might not restart.
INSTALLING THE SUPPORT PACK
1
11
1(Conditional) Download the latest support pack to the NetWare 5.x server, for
example, download to SYS:\.
If you purchased a support pack CD from Support Connection, skip this step.
2
22
2(Conditional) Expand the support pack.
For NW51SP1.EXE, the support pack might take several minutes to verify an ARJ-
SECURITY envelope. After verification, the support pack creates an NW5SPX
directory and places subdirectories and files there.
If you purchased a CD from Support Connection, skip this step. The support pack is
already expanded.
3
33
3At the server console, start NWCONFIG.NLM.
If You Are Running DSREPAIR from
Here
Do This
A server that holds a writable replica of
the Tree partition
Reapply the Post NetWare 5 Schema
Update to your NDS tree.
From any other server Click Advanced Options > Global
Schema Operations > Request Schema
from Tree.
Before Installing NDS eDirectory on
This Server
Install This Support Pack
NetWare 5 NetWare 5 Support Pack 4
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4Select Product Options > Install a Product Not Listed.
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5Press F3 (F4 if you're using RCONSOLE) > specify the path to the expanded support
pack files, such as SYS:\NW5SP4.
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6Select options.
Follow the online instructions to install the support pack.
During installation, the support pack might prompt you concerning extending the
schema. Although you have already extended the schema for NDS eDirectory, you
most likely need to extend the schema for other functionality, such as Novell Licensing
Services.
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7Take the server down, then restart it.
If you checked the Reboot Server option in Step 6, the server automatically restarts.
INSTALLING NDS EDIRECTORY
1
11
1(Conditional) If you are upgrading NDS, do the following:
1a
1a1a
1a In the AUTOEXEC.NCF file, comment out the lines that load virus scanners,
database applications such as Sybase* or Oracle*, backup applications, and
other programs that rely on files being continually open and volumes being
mounted.
During the NDS eDirectory 8.5 installation, the software must dismount volumes
so that trustree assignments can be migrated.
Be aware that virus scanners and other programs might be embedded inside
other products, for example, ZENworksTM, ManageWiseTM, and
BorderManagerTM.
1b
1b1b
1b Restart the server and verify that the programs and applications referred to in
Step 1a are not running.
2
22
2(Conditional) If you have an IP-only environment, load IPXSPX.NLM.
NWCONFIG.NLM looks in Btrieve* for the product list. Btrieve subsequently requires
IPXTM. Loading IPXSPX.NLM allows Btrieve to load. When you reboot the server,
IPXSPX.NLM does not reload, so you have an IP-only environment again.
3
33
3At the server console, load NWCONFIG.NLM.
4
44
4Select Product Options > Install a Product Not Listed.
5
55
5Press F3 (F4 if you're using RCONSOLE) > enter the path to the NDS files under the
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Follow the prompts concerning license agreements, the readme file, and tips.
After the files are copied, the server automatically restarts and begins to install
components for ConsoleOne and Novell Certificate Server.
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6Enter the administrator’s login name (for example, Admin.VMP).
So that the installation program can access the Security container and create a Server
Certificate object, log in to the existing Security container object as a user with
Supervisor rights.
IMPORTANT: This window might close before you enter this information. If it does,
toggle (Alt+Esc) to the window and enter the information. Otherwise, the installation
will not be complete.
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77
7Follow the online instructions concerning the Certificate Server, LDAP, languages,
components, and products to install.
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88
8When the installation is completed, restore the lines that you commented out in
Step 1a on page 14 > restart the server by clicking Yes.
Repeat this procedure for each NetWare 5.xserver you want to upgrade to NDS
eDirectory 8.5 for NetWare.
You can download an evaluation license from the NDS eDirectory Web page (http://
www.novell.com/products/nds/licenses/eval_85.html).
LOST TRUSTEE ASSIGNMENTS ON NFS GATEWAY VOLUMES
The NDS installation process does not upgrade trustee assignments on NFS Gateway
volumes. If you are hosting NFS Gateway volumes on a server upgraded to NDS, those
trustee assignments are mapped to non-existent trustees.
To delete the inaccurate trustee assignments, complete the following steps:
1
11
1On the server, load UNICON > authenticate to NDS.
2
22
2Select Start/Stop Services > NFS Gateway Server > Del.
3
33
3From a workstation, log in to the server > delete the SYS:\NFSGW\SFSxxxx.DAT file.
4
44
4At the server, load UNICON again > authenticate to NDS.
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55
5Select Start/Stop Services > NFS Gateway Server.
You will need to manually create new trustee assignments for NDS objects to any NFS
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Installing or Upgrading NDSInstalling or Upgrading NDS
Installing or Upgrading NDS
eDirectory on Windows NT/2000
eDirectory on Windows NT/2000eDirectory on Windows NT/2000
eDirectory on Windows NT/2000
Use the following instructions to install or upgrade NDS®eDirectoryTM on a Windows* NT*
or Windows 2000 server.
System Requirements
"A Windows NT server 4.0 with Service Pack 4 or later (or Windows 2000 Server) and
an assigned IP address.
"A Pentium* 200 with a minimum of 64 MB RAM (128 MB recommended) and a
monitor color palette set to a number higher than 16.
"(Optional) One or more workstations running one of the following:
!Novell®ClientTM for Windows 95/98 3.0 or later
!Novell Client for Windows NT 4.5 or later
!NT client
"Administrative rights to the NT/2000 server and to all portions of the NDS tree that
contain domain-enabled User objects. For an installation into an existing tree, you
need administrative rights to the Tree object so that you can extend the schema and
create objects.
NOTE: The [Root] object, used in earlier versions of NDS, has been renamed to Tree
in NDS eDirectory 8.5.
Hardware Requirements
Hardware requirements depend on the specific implementation of NDS.
For example, a base installation of NDS eDirectory with the standard schema requires
about 74 MB of disk space for every 50,000 users. However, if you add a new set of
attributes or completely fill in every existing attribute, the object size grows. These
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Two factors increase performance: more cache memory and faster processors.
For best results, cache as much of the DIB Set as the hardware allows.
NDS scales well on a single processor. However, NDS 8.5 takes advantage of multiple
processors. Adding processors improves performance in some areas, for example, logins
and having multiple threads active on multiple processors. NDS itself is not processor-
intensive, but it is I/O-intensive.
The following table illustrates typical system requirements for NDS eDirectory for
Windows NT and Windows 2000:
Requirements for processors might be greater than the table indicates, depending upon
additional services available on the computer as well as the number of authentications,
reads, and writes that the computer is handling. Processes such as encryption and
indexing can be processor-intensive.
Forcing the Backlink Process to Run
Because the internal NDS identifiers change when upgrading to NDS eDirectory, the
backlink process has to update backlinked objects for them to be consistent.
Backlinks keep track of external references to objects on other servers. For each external
reference on a server, the backlink process ensures that the real object exists in the
correct location and verifies all backlink attributes on the master of the replica. The
backlink process occurs two hours after the database is open and then every 780 minutes
(13 hours). The interval is configurable from 2 minutes to 10,080 minutes (7 days).
After migrating to NDS, we recommend that you force the backlink to run by issuing a
SET DSTRACE=*B command from the server console. Running the backlink process is
especially important on servers that do not contain a replica.
Installing NDS eDirectory on Windows NT/2000
NDS eDirectory 8.5 for NT upgrades NT servers running NT Service Pack 4 with NDS
8.35 or later.
Objects Processor Memory Hard Disk
10,000 Pentium* III 450-700 MHz (single) 384 MB 144 MB
1 million Pentium III 450-700 MHz (dual) 2 GB 1.5 GB
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If no NDS tree exists, you can install NDS eDirectory 8.5. The installation program creates
an NDS tree.
If your NDS tree does not have a Novell Certificate Server, the NDS installation program
does the following:
!Creates a Security container object for the entire NDS tree
This object is created at the top of the NDS tree and must remain there.
!Creates an Organizational Certificate Authority (CA) object
!Places the Organizational CA object in the Security container
Only one Organizational CA object can exist in an NDS tree. Because you must not move
this object from one server to another, ensure that the first NDS server is the one that you
intend to permanently host the Organizational CA object.
PREREQUISITES
"Because NTFS provides a safer transaction process than a FAT file system
provides, you can only install NDS on an NTFS partition. Therefore, if you only have
FAT file systems, do one of the following:
!Create a new partition and format it as NTFS.
Use Disk Administrator. Refer to Windows NT Server User Guide for more
information.
!Convert an existing FAT file system to NTFS, using the CONVERT command.
If your server only has a FAT file system and you forget or overlook this process, the
installation program prompts you to provide an NTFS partition.
"If you are installing NDS eDirectory for NT into an NDS tree that has NetWare and
NT servers, each NetWare server must be running one of the following:
!NetWare 4.2 with NDS 6.09 or later
!NetWare 5.0 with Support Pack 5 or later
!NetWare 5.1
Each NT server must be running eDirectory 8.0 or later.
UPDATING THE NDS SCHEMA
IMPORTANT: If the master replica of the Tree partition resides on a NetWare server,
follow the instructions in “Updating the NDS Schema” on page 11.

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To upgrade an existing tree, run DSREPAIR on the server that contains the master
replica of the Tree partition.
The NDS eDirectory installation program checks the existing schema’s version. If the
schema has not been upgraded, the installation program instructs you to run DSREPAIR,
then discontinues.
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1Copy PATCHES\DSREPAIR\ NTNDS8\DSREPAIR. DLL from the product CD to the
directory where you installed NDS, for example, G:\NOVELL\NDS.
This file is version 8.35.
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2Start NDSCONSOLE by running NDSCONS.EXE.
This file is in the directory where you installed NDS.
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3Select DSREPAIR from the NDS Service list.
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4Enter -ins in the Startup Parameters field > click Start.
After the schema has been updated, the status field next to the DSREPAIR module
in NDSCONSOLE will be blank.
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5To see the results of the schema update, select DSREPAIR in NDSCONSOLE.
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6Click Start > File > Open Log File > Open.
The last entry of the log file will contain the results of the schema update.
INSTALLING NDS EDIRECTORY
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1At the NT/2000 server, log in as Administrator or as a user with administrative
privileges.
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2Run SETUP.EXE from the NT directory on the product CD.
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3Select which components to install.
You can install the components separately or together.
!Install Novell Directory Services
This option installs NDS in an NT-only or mixed NetWare/NT server
environment.
Follow the online instructions in the Installation Wizard.