NOVELL TECHNICAL INFORMATION DOCUMENT

TITLE:  Rename mail directories
README FOR:  RENMDR.EXE

NOVELL PRODUCTS and VERSIONS:
NetWare 4.1
NetWare 4.02
NetWare 4.01

ABSTRACT:

RENMDIRS.NLM is a tool that will allow users mail directories in
SYS:MAIL to be renamed to match their current object ID
numbers.This is necessary for bindery login scripts and printcon
files to work properly, as well as for other applications that
use these mail directories.




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SYMPTOM:

One cause of mis-matched object id's and mail directory names is
restoring NDS from a backup. SMS aware backup engines such as
Sbackup store object names, not ID's. When an NDS restore is
done, these users are given new object ID's. At this point, the
mis-match is created. 

 Following the NDS restore, the users also no longer have rights
to the file system. To get trustee assignments back, the user
must now restore the file system, either a full restore (if
actual data files need to be restored) or a full restore with the
option   exclude data streams" option set to YES (this option
will restore just the directory structure, no file data). During
the restore, the SMS compliant backup will re-map the trustee
assignments to match those of the new object ID's.

 Finally, the RENMDIRS.NLM tool will be used to change the mail
directory names (which are currently the OLD object ID) to match
the object ID's of the newly restored users. This NLM will use
the DET to see what user has rights to each mail directory. When
a user is found, that mail directory name is changed to match
that users new object ID.


SOLUTION: 

Load the NLM at the server with the following syntax;

 "LOAD RENMDIRS servername username password"

 Where:
     servername is the name of the server to have the mail
directories renamed
     username is a user with rights to the MAIL subdirectory and
sub-directories
     password is that of the username above
 Example syntax: "load renmdirs fs1 .cn=admin.o=novell novell


Self-Extracting File Name: renmdr.exe

Files Included     Size     Date      Time

..\
      RENMDR.TXT     (This file)
    RENMDIRS.MSG             382          2-7-95     10:44:46 am
    RENMDIRS.NLM            3377          7-5-95      5:28:56 pm


Installation Instructions:

The renmdirs.* files may be copied to a:, c:, sys:system or other
directory for loading at the server console.



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