Novell OPEN ENTERPRISE SERVER 2.0 SP2 - DOMAIN SERVICE FOR WINDOWS Manual page 232

Feature
Storage of user data
Manageability
Group Policy
Trusts
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IDM
Data is duplicated across
directory services.
Can be managed from iManager. DSfW can be managed from
No support for Group Policy.
No concept of trusts. Data is
duplicated and the access rights
are evaluated on the local server.
DSfW
Data is stored in eDirectory, but
the DSfW suite of services make
it possible for the data to be
accessed and retrieved from
Active Directory environment.
Microsoft MMC as well as
eDirectory web management
tools like iManager. So any
Windows member server/client
joined to the DSfW domain will be
able to use the power of Active
Directory which means share
creation, assigning various
access rights, managing users,
trusts, group policies will be very
much seamless. In DSfW the
Samba-3 shares and access
rights can be managed by
eDirectory web based
management i.e iManager.
Supports Group Policies. For
more information, see Managing
Group Policy Settings
Trusts are supported. This makes
accessing inter-forest or inter-
domain resources possible.
Supports the following forms of
trusts:
External Trusts
Forest Trusts
Realm Trusts
For more information see,
Managing Trust Relationships in
Domain Services for Windows