Composite Name Examples

This section shows examples of names that follow FNS policies. (See Table 25–26 for a summary of these policies.)

The specific choices of organization names, site names, user names, host names, file names, and service names (such as calendar and printer) are illustrative only; these names are not specified by FNS policy.

Composing Names Relative to Organizations

The namespaces that can be associated with the organization namespace (_orgunit, orgunit, or org) are: user, host, service, fs, and site.

For example:

• orgunit/doc.com/site/videoconf.bldg-5 names a conference room videoconf located in Building 5 of the site associated with the organization doc.com. (You can also use the alias org for orgunit to form, org/doc.com/site/videoconf.bldg-5.)

• orgunit/doc.com/user/mjones names a user mjones in the organization doc.com.

• orgunit/doc.com/host/smptserver1 names a machine smptserver1 belonging to the organization doc.com.

• orgunit/doc.com/fs/staff/agenda9604/ names a file staff/agenda9604 belonging to the organization doc.com.

• orgunit/doc.com/service/calendar names the calendar service for the organization doc.com. This might manage the meeting schedules for the organization.

Composing Names Relative to Users

The namespaces that can be associated with the user namespace are service and fs.

• user/helga/service/calendar names the calendar service of a user named helga.

• user/helga/fs/tasklist names the file tasklist under the home directory of the user helga.

Composing Names Relative to Hosts

The namespaces that can be associated with the hosts namespace are service and fs.

• host/mailhop/service/mailbox names the mailbox service associated with the machine mailhop.

• host/mailhop/fs/pub/saf/archives.96 names the directory pub/saf/archives.96 found under the root directory of the file system exported by the machine mailhop.

Composing Names Relative to Sites

The namespaces that can be associated with the sites namespace are service and fs.

• site/bldg-7.alameda/service/printer/speedy names a printer speedy in the bldg-7.alameda site.

• site/alameda/fs/usr/dist names a file directory usr/dist available in the alameda site.

Composing Names Relative to Services and Files

No other namespaces can be associated with either the files (fs) or services (service) namespaces. For example, you cannot compose a name such as /services/calendar/orgunit/doc.com. In other words, you cannot compose a compound name relative to either the files or the service namespace. You can, of course, compose a file or service name relative to some other namespace such as /user/esperanza/service/calendar.