How Cells Determine Naming Environments
In addition to delineating security and administrative boundaries for users and resources, cells determine the boundaries for sets of names. Because different naming components operate in a cell and outside of a cell, naming conventions in the cell and global environments differ as well. The DCE naming environment supports two kinds of names: global names and cell-relative, or local, names. The following subtopics introduce the concept of global and local names. An In-Depth Analysis of DCE Names describes CDS, GDS, and DNS names in detail.
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Cell-Relative Naming in a Standalone Cell
Cell-Relative Naming in a Hierarchy of Cells