Lotus Domino supports these NetWare services:

• Bindery Service -- Network services use the Service Advertising Protocol (SAP) to update the NetWare server's network database, called the Bindery. Notes workstations and Domino servers use the Bindery to look up a server's network address. Domino servers use the Bindery Service to advertise their NRPC services on the network. The Bindery is a dynamic database; therefore, if a network service does not update the Bindery within a few minutes, the Bindery detects the entries for that service. A Domino server uses the Bindery Service Object ID 0x039B.
• Novell Directory Service (NDS) -- The Novell Directory Service is based on the X.500 directory service. The IPX/SPX port driver is the only port driver that supports NDS. Since NDS is a static database, network services update the database only once. The information stored in the database is persistent, so a Domino server's NDS object can always be found in the NDS tree, whether or not the server is currently running. NDS uses less network bandwidth than the Bindery Service, which uses SAP broadcasts over IPX/NCP.
• Both NDS and Bindery Service -- If both services are installed, the Notes workstation or Domino server tries an NDS lookup first. If the NDS lookup fails, the workstation or server tries a Bindery lookup.

For background information on how the Notes Name Service works with name-resolver services such as those for NetWare, see the topic Resolving server names to network addresses in NRPC.

For information on setting up NDS to work with Lotus Domino, see the topic Novell Directory Service for the IPX/SPX network.

See also

Naming Domino servers on a Netware Bindery Service network
Naming Domino servers on a Novell Directory Service network
Recording a server's NDS distinguished name
Planning the IPX/SPX network

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