Dell PowerVault 735N (Rackmount NAS Appliance) - Manual (Page 73)

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Use directory-enabled applications, devices, and services based on the Windows
2000 Active Directory service.
MSDSS is easy to use and makes synchronization and Active Directory setup easy
through its management interface. It is fully-featured to allow users a choice of man-
agement, synchronization, and migration options.
MSDSS supports all major NetWare platforms and most Novell directories and binder-
ies, and it includes support for IPX/SPX and TCP/IP network protocols.
Windows 2000 MSDSS Domain Controller
To implement MSDSS, you must install the Windows 2000 Server operating system
and the MSDSS software (available on the Microsoft Services for NetWare version 5
CD-ROM) on at least one system. In Windows 2000, when you promote a system
running Windows 2000 Server to an Active Directory server, it becomes a domain
controller. You use this domain controller to configure Active Directory, to install
MSDSS, and then to import information from the existing NetWare environment.
The larger the environment, the more new servers you will need. If you are planning
to have more than one domain, then you will need new hardware for the first domain
controller in each domain.
You must also install Novell Client Access software on the MSDSS server or servers.
MSDSS uses Novell Client Access to authenticate and to gain access to NDS. While
accessing NDS, it authenticates, but does not use a license. MSDSS also uses Novell
Client Access to map one directory’s contents to another, taking into account the fact
that the object classes in Novell’s NDS or Bindery directories are different from Active
Directory object classes. Novell Client Access is also required in order to use File
Migration Utility to migrate files.
You can install Novell Client Access in four modes: IP only, IPX only, IP and IPX com-
bined, and IP with IPX Compatibility Mode. Most NetWare environments still use IPX
today. MSDSS works in all these modes because it uses Novell Client Access to
access the lower layers.
If you are migrating NDS, you can import the user and group information from one
NDS server to the MSDSS server, because you have one user database per tree. You
can then migrate the file system. Remember that each Novell server has its own file
system, which is not replicated to other servers (whereas NDS
is replicated to other
servers). After the files are migrated, you can uninstall NDS from the server to free up
the hardware for the Windows 2000 Server operating system.
Outline of the Deployment Procedure
The next two sections describe the procedures for implementing MSDSS in a smaller
(local area network (LAN) only) or larger (wide area network (WAN)) network. You
need to adapt the guidelines to suit your environment and goals.