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New Information!!! We have found a way to allow department admins to create their own top level DNS and DHCP objects without any special instructions, other than to log in with your container admin ID when doing so. The same ID you would use to install a NetWare 5.x or 6.x server, or to access the Licenses on the NetWare volume. -------------------------------------------------- Unlike the DHCP server that runs on NetWare 3.x and 4.x servers, the DHCP server for NetWare 5.x uses NDS to store information about DHCP servers, subnets, subnet pools, subnet address ranges, and IP address assignment. Likewise, the DNS server for NetWare 5.x uses NDS to store information about DNS servers, zones, resource record sets, and resource records. Unfortunately, Novell's model for controlling access to this information in NDS, does not suit our distributed administration environment as nicely as we would hope. In a nutshell, Novell's model says that if you are authorized to setup, configure, and manage DHCP or DNS for one server in one container, then you should be able to do so for all servers and all containers. After some investigation, we have determined that the keys to the DHCP and DNS kingdoms are only needed for the setup portion, which involves creating the initial DHCP objects (DHCP Server, Subnet, and Subnet Pool objects) and the initial DNS objects (DNS Server and Zone.) Once these objects are created, they can be configured and administered by anyone with proper NDS rights to the container the objects reside in (i.e. local admin.) Since we don't want to give away the keys to the DHCP and DNS kingdoms, we at ITCS will need to be the ones to create the initial DHCP and DNS objects. To facilitate this, we have setup two forms on our website to request the creation of these objects. The addresses are: To offer constructive criticism, or provide other feedback about our site, click here.
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