NDS
       Netware Directory Services (Novell, Netware)

	

	NDS
       Network Data System

	

	Netware Directory Services
NDS

    (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)