iManager provides an easy method for changing Middle Tier Server (also known as XTier) configuration after Novell® NetStorage or Novell ZENworks® for Desktops (ZfD) has been installed. Middle Tier Server configuration information is stored in the NetWare® registry on NetWare servers. On Linux servers, Middle Tier configuration is stored in an XML file on the Linux server.
Important: If you are running in a clustered environment, any Middle Tier configuration changes made to one node in the cluster must be made to the other Middle Tier servers in the cluster.
Changes go into effect when you restart the server or when you restart Apache Web server.
To restart Apache Web server on a NetWare server, at the server console, enter
Ap2WebDn
to stop the web server and then enter
Ap2WebUp
to restart the Web server.
To restart Apache Web server on a Linux server, restart the XTier server. To do this, at the Linux command prompt, enter the following command:
/etc/init.d/novell-xsrvd restart
This page lets you view or edit the following configuration settings.
Home Name
This text is displayed on the NetStorage Web page and is followed by the tree name and path
to the user’s home directory. The user might have home directories in multiple trees, in which case
multiple paths are displayed.Default=Home@
You might want to change the default if you want to reference home directories with a different word or in a language other than English. See the Alternate Tree Name item below for more information on configuring NetStorage to display multiple home directories.
Drive Name
This text is displayed on the NetStorage Web page and includes the drive letter
being referenced followed by the path to the mapped drive. The user’s login
scripts on the primary tree are parsed by NetStorage to gather information
on mapped drives. You might want to change this if you want to use different
words to reference mapped drives on the NetStorage Web page.
Public Directory Name
A public directory can be automatically created in each user’s home directory by NetStorage. If
public directories are created by NetStorage, all users in the same eDirectoryTM context have Read
and File Scan rights to the other users’ public directories.
If you don’t want public directories created in users’ home directories, leave this field blank (default).
If you want public directories created in users’ home directories, type a name for the public directories. For example, if you make My Public Files the name for the public directories, a folder named My Public Files is created at the root of each user's home directory the first time the user logs in using NetStorage.
To access a public directory, users need to add ~username to the end of the URL used to access NetStorage. For example if you want to access the public directory for a user named jsmith, you might enter a URL similar to http://file.i-login.net/oneNet/NetStorage/~jsmith.
Alternate Tree Name
When a user’s home directory is displayed by NetStorage, the name of the eDirectory
tree is also displayed. With this configuration field, you can substitute the
tree name that users see in NetStorage to something that might be more intuitive.
For example, if the tree name is SERVICES 2 and you want users to see i-Login,
you would type SERVICES2/i-Login in this configuration field. The eDirectory
tree name and the substitute name are separated with a slash (/).
NetStorage can access user home directories in multiple eDirectory trees. If you want to substitute eDirectory tree names in more than one tree, separate those tree name substitutions with a comma. An example of this is SERVICES2/i-Login,SERVEME2/Staging.
Container Search Height
Specifies the number of container levels (from where the User object is located)
that NetStorage will search up in the eDirectory tree for the container login
script. Default=1, which is the same level used by Novell Client software
(searches the parent container).
If you specify a number greater than the number of container levels in the eDirectory tree, NetStorage searches up to and including the root container in the tree. If you specify 0, NetStorage does not process any container objects.
Check MAP Drives
Specifies if mapped drives (from login script MAP statements) are checked when the user logs in.
Default=0 (mapped drives are not checked and all mapped drives are displayed
to the user). If the user attempts to access a mapped drive pointing to a directory
that does not exist or that the user does not have access rights to, an error occurs.
If you specify 1, each mapped drive is checked at login and map drives that do not exist or that the user does not have access to are not displayed.
Home Dirs
Specifies if home directories are to be processed. Default=1 (processed). If you specify
0, no home directories are processed or displayed to the user.
Login Scripts
Specifies if login scripts are to be processed. The default is 1, meaning that they are processed. If you specify 0, login scripts are not processed, and any mapped drives specified in login scripts will not be displayed to the user.
Storage Locations
Specifies if storage locations are to be used. The default is 1, meaning that they are used. If you specify 0, storage locations are not used, and any storage locations that have been created will not be available to users.
Shared Directory
A local shared directory is automatically created when NetStorage for Linux is installed. The path to the shared directory is /var/opt/novell/netstorage/shared.
This option specifies if the shared directory is to be displayed when NetStorage runs on Linux. The default is 1, meaning that it is displayed. If you specify 0, the shared directory will not be displayed as a top level directory for all users.
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