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Creating NetWare mirrors
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To set up your mirror repository on a NetWare server, you must first create the
necessary directories and set the access privileges.
You must create an administrator's user ID with full access rights to the mirror
repository so that you can add software to the mirror repository.
Clients require read-only access to the mirror repository. This user ID should
be a single user ID for all clients that need to read from the mirror repository.
This user ID also must have full access to the \UPGRADES directory.
The details for access rights and user IDs are summarized in
rights" on page
Follow these steps to set up a mirror repository on a NetWare server:
1. Create a new directory named REPO. This holds the Management
2. Create another directory named UPGRADES.
3. For clients needing to access \REPO, create a single, shared NetWare
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NOTE: If you exit the Repository without components being fully
updated or installed, the Incomplete Components and Mirrors
dialog box appears, showing a list of the incomplete components or
mirror repositories. This can happen if a WAN connection is
dropped or an installation is interrupted. For details, see
component properties in the Repository" on page
IMPORTANT: The volume you choose to host a mirror repository must
support long file names. Therefore, you must load OS2.NAM or
LONG.NAM and add the additional namespace, if it is not already
configured.
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components and anti-virus components.
This can be a subdirectory of \REPO or in a different location. Both the
\REPO and \UPGRADES directories must be empty when you set up
the mirror repository via the Management Console. If the \UPGRADES
directory is created as a subdirectory of the \REPO directory, it must be
named \UPGRADES.
user ID on the server holding the mirror repository. You must give this
user ID both Read (R) and File-scan (F) access.
Using Mirror and Linked Repositories
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