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TITLE: Location Independence
OCUMENT ID#: FYI.P.6027
DATE: October 29, 1991
PRODUCT: NetWare Lite
PRODUCT VERSION: All versions
SUPERSEDES: NA
SYMPTOM: NA
ISSUE/PROBLEM
Location Independence
You will notice that NetWare Lite resources are location independent. Suppose you create a network directory named ALL_APPS on a server named DEPT_SERVER. Server DEPT_SERVER is a 8 MHz 286 machine with a 40 MB hard disk. All clients map drives to ALL_APPS and use it every day. Now suppose you buy a 50 MHz 486 machine with a 1 GB disk drive on it. You want to move the network directory ALL_APPS to this new machine. You install this new machine and call it HOT_SERVER. You can then create a new network directory on this new server and call it ALL_APPS (same name as before). You then copy the files from DEPT_SERVER to HOT_SERVER. ALL_APPS can now be removed from DEPT_SERVER. All your clients will now use ALL_APPS from HOT_SERVER and nothing need be changed from the client's perspective. The clients don't need to know that the location of the network directory ALL_APPS has moved. This same principle applies to network printers.
