Are there any implications with having multiple trees on a company's network?
Articles and Tips: qna
01 Dec 1998
Q.
Dear Ab-end: Are there any implications with having multiple trees on a company's network? I have a client ready to upgrade NetWare 4.1 and they have three trees with the same name! Also, are there any problems with Timesync in this scenario?
—Wondering in Walla Walla
A.
Dear Wondering: Having multiple trees on the same company network is not a problem as long as each tree has a unique name. Some companies have more than a hundred differently named trees and everything runs fine. If trees have the same name, clients will attach to a wrong tree because they will get attached to the server that responds first. By the way, the only scenario in which this problem can occur is to create the trees on isolated networks and then connect the trees. A normal install will not allow two different trees to have the same name on the same wire. TimeSync is independent of tree names and is not affected by trees with multiple names.
* Originally published in Novell AppNotes
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