V.E.R.A. -- Virtual Entity of Relevant Acronyms (February 2016):

NDS
       Netware Directory Services (Novell, Netware)


V.E.R.A. -- Virtual Entity of Relevant Acronyms (February 2016):

NDS
       Network Data System


The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (30 December 2018):

Netware Directory Services
NDS

    (NDS) Novell, Inc.'s directory services for
   Netware, Windows NT, and Unix.  The NDS directory
   represents each network resource (user, hardware, or
   application) as an object of a certain class, where each
   class has certain properties.  For example, User and Print
   Server are object classes and a user has over 80 properties
   such as name, login, password, department, and title.

   The directory is hierarchical, divided into branches by rules
   of containment.  A given object can only belong to a given
   container (or branch).  The rules governing classes,
   properties and, rules of containment are known as the
   schema.

   (2001-03-20)