RFC 2241 (rfc2241) - Page 1 of 5
DHCP Options for Novell Directory Services
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Network Working Group D. Provan
Request for Comments: 2241 Novell, Inc.
Category: Standards Track November 1997
DHCP Options for Novell Directory Services
Status of this Memo
This document specifies an Internet standards track protocol for the
Internet community, and requests discussion and suggestions for
improvements. Please refer to the current edition of the "Internet
Official Protocol Standards" (STD 1) for the standardization state
and status of this protocol. Distribution of this memo is unlimited.
Copyright Notice
Copyright (C) The Internet Society (1997). All Rights Reserved.
Abstract
This document defines three new DHCP options for delivering
configuration information to clients of the Novell Directory
Services. The first option carries a list of NDS servers. The second
option carries the name of the client's NDS tree. The third carries
the initial NDS context. These three options provide an NDS client
with enough information to connect to an NDS tree without manual
configuration of the client.
1. Introduction
Novell Directory Services is a distributed, replicated, hierarchical
database of objects representing network resources such as nodes,
services, users, and applications. An NDS client must be able to
locate an NDS server in order to authenticate itself to the network
and gain access to the database. In addition, the node's user is
better served if the NDS client's attention is focused on the area of
the NDS database likely to be of the most interest to the user. This
specification describes DHCP options [1] that carry NDS information
to TCP/IP clients of NDS. The first option, the NDS Servers Option,
carries a list of NDS servers. The other two options, the NDS Tree
Name Option and the NDS Context Option, provide the client with a
default context within the NDS database.
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