Terminology

$TNHOME

The TotalNET home directory where TAS files and programs reside, located at /var/opt/totalnet.

attach points

Aliases for directory paths in a volume. Users see attach points as volumes and cannot move up directory trees past them.

button

A control that executes an action or changes an attribute or feature.

control frame

The window in the upper left of the TNAS screen. It contains TNAS-specific options.

icon

A graphical representation of an object or process. This manual describes the function of each clickable icon.

menu frame

The window in the lower left of the TNAS screen. It displays the hierarchy of options for the sphere.

realms

Domains in the TAS environment. TAS has the following three realms, based on the three types of clients and transport protocols:

LM-NT-OS/2 realm -- The realm for LAN Manager, Windows NT, Windows 95, and IBM OS/2 clients running NetBIOS-over-TCP/IP or NetBIOS-over-NetBEUI transports.

NetWare realm -- The realm for NetWare clients running the IPX/SPX transport.

AppleTalk realm -- The realm for Macintosh clients running the AppleTalk transport.

services

File, print, and terminal services in the TotalNET environment.

server selector

A mechanism for displaying all TAS systems in your enterprise. From it, you can select the system to administer.

sphere

A collection of menus that allows you to perform a logical set of system administration tasks. You can add or delete these "plug-in" or "snap-in" spheres on the host server.

sphere frame

The window in the upper right of the TNAS screen. It displays all the available plug-in spheres for the server.

TNAS

TotalNET Administration Suite, a task-oriented graphic administration and configuration interface for TotalNET product administration, licensing, and system administration. TNAS includes the TotalAdmin sphere for administering TAS.

TNAS session

A way for TNAS to identify users and manage their activities separately. A session starts when a user logs in and ends when it expires or the user logs out.

TotalNET system manager

The daemon that performs general management of the TotalNET system.

TotalAdmin

The TAS administration sphere of TNAS, also called the TotalAdmin sphere. It comes bundled with TAS.

transport

Low-level networking protocol suites defined at the system level and referenced from all realms. TAS provides services for each realm over the appropriate transport protocols: NetBIOS-over-TCP/IP, NetBIOS-over-NetBEUI, IPX/SPX, and AppleTalk.

volumes

Short names for UNIX directory paths made known to TAS and its clients. File services export volumes to clients. You must define a volume and its corresponding directory path to make it accessible to network clients. Include a reference to a volume for all the file services you wish to enable for client access.

work frame

The window in the lower right of the TNAS screen. Input forms appear here.

zone

In the AppleTalk environment, a logical grouping of clients. It simplifies scanning the network for resources, such as servers and printers, in similar domains. In a DNS (Domain Name System) database, a zone consists of a subdirectory of the DNS database. It serves as a DNS name server. This may contain a single domain or several sub-domains. You can set up one or more name servers for each zone.

zone list

All of the zones associated with a particular network.