< 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 .
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