Novell Documentation: eDirectory Libraries for C

DSEReplicaPointer

Contains a replica pointer associated with a DSEvent.

Service:eDirectory Event
Defined In:nwdsevnt.h

Structure

    typedef struct 
    { 
       uint32   serverID,   
       uint32   type ; 
       uint32   number ; 
       uint32   replicaRootID ; 
       char     referral [1]; 
    } DSEReplicaPointer;

Fields

serverID: Specifies the local ID for the name server that holds the replica.
type: Specifies the replica type.
number: Specifies the replica number.
replicaRootID: Specifies the remote ID for the object that is the partition root. This is the replica root’s local ID on the remote server.
referral: Specifies an array of network addresses for the server specified in serverID.

Remarks

These types of partitions are defined as follows:

RT_MASTER
RT_SECONDARY
RT_READONLY
RT_SUBREF

A server can have more than one address, such as IPX and IP.