Purpose

From a workstation running Windows 3.1x or Windows 95, use this utility to perform the following supervisory tasks.:

• Create users and group
• Create and delete Novell Directory Services (NDS) objects
• Move and rename NDS objects
• Assign rights in the Directory tree and in the file system
• Set up printing services
• Set up licensing services

NOTE:  NetWare Administrator incorporates all the functions available in FILER, NETADMIN, PARTMGR, and PCONSOLE.

During installation, files for the Windows 3.1x NetWare Administrator are copied to the SYS:PUBLIC directory. For the Windows 95 NetWare Administrator, the files are copied to the SYS:PUBLIC\WIN95 directory.

Before you start NetWare Administrator for the first time, create an NWADMIN icon. Thereafter, you can choose the icon to start the utility.

Using NetWare Administrator

NetWare Administrator has a graphical user interface (GUI) and runs as a multiple-document interface (MDI) application.

NOTE:  For help in NetWare Administrator, choose the Help button on the screen, press <F1>, or use the pull-down Help menu.

The menu bar displays headings for several menus. To complete a task, you first select an object in the browser, next select a menu heading, and then choose the option you want to use in the menu.

Figure 14
NetWare Administrator Menu Bar

Each time you select a menu option, a message appears in the title bar explaining briefly what the menu option does. If an option is grayed, it is not available for the object you selected.

Using the Browser

When you launch NetWare Administrator, you will notice that its primary window is a browser that displays the Novell Directory Services (NDS) container objects and leaf objects at your current context in the Directory tree.

You can open up to nine additional browsers. You might want to open an additional browser to see a different context in the Directory tree.

To open another browser, select a container object (this will be the root object in the browser window) and, from the Tools menu, select Browser.

Working with Objects

• To view the file system of a server in your tree, double-click on the Volume object associated with that server.

  For example, to see the file system in the SYS: volume of server KATT, double-click on the Volume object KATT_SYS.

• To open a container object and view the objects in it
  • Double-click anywhere on the container object's name or icon.
  • Select the container object and, from the View menu, choose Expand.

• To view the object dialog (object details) of a container object
  • Select the container object and from the Object menu, choose Details.
  • Select the container object, right-click once, and choose Details from the short menu that appears.

• To view the object dialog (object details) of a leaf object
  • Select the leaf object and double-click.
  • Select the leaf object and from the Object menu, choose Details.
  • Select the leaf object, right-click once, and choose Details from the short menu that appears.

The object dialog allows you to view and edit information about an object's properties. When you open an object details dialog box, you see property pages along the right side of the dialog box. Although you view these pages one at a time, they are all part of one dialog. When you select a different page, you're still in the same dialog.

The property pages are configurable; you can order them however you like. To change the page order, click Page Options, and from the Page Options dialog, sort the property pages according to your specific needs.

Figure 15
Identification Page