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Creating a Managed Network View

When you create a network view, you associate neighborhoods, computers, and dynamic lists with the view. You also define client-specific information, such as which client computers should use the view.

1. Open Workgroup Manager, and click Network.
2. Click the small globe above the Network Views list to choose the network directory in which you want the view to reside.
3. Click the lock to authenticate as a domain administrator for the directory.
4. Choose Server > New Network View, select the type of view you want to create, and click Create.
5. If you're defining a named view, enter a name for the view in the Layout pane.

   If you want the named view to be visible to all computers on a subnet, name the view using the subnet mask in Classless Inter-Domain Routing (CIDR) notation. For example, if you wanted your subnet of 192.168.2.x to use a particular view, you would name that view 192.168.2.0/24. For a detailed description of subnet masks and CIDR notation, see the network services administration guide.

   If you want the named view to be visible to a particular computer, you can name the view using that computer's IP address or Ethernet address. You can also specify the view's name in specific computer records, as Enabling Managed Network View Visibility describes.

6. In the Layout pane, add neighborhoods, computers, and dynamic lists to the view.

   For instructions, see Adding Neighborhoods to Managed Network Views, Showing Computers in Managed Network Views, and Adding Dynamic Lists to Managed Network Views.

7. Finalize the neighborhood hierarchy. Drag elements up or down in the list in the Layout pane to add them to neighborhoods or remove them from neighborhoods.

   Items in the list are displayed alphabetically, as they are when viewed in a client's Finder. If your network view contains a mixture of dynamic lists and computers, the computers contained within the dynamic lists and the computers you individually list are mixed together and sorted alphabetically. Consider organizing views containing both dynamic lists and computers into neighborhoods. Displaying all resources within neighborhoods gives you the opportunity to assign a meaningful name to a collection of resources.

8. Set up client computer settings for the view using the Settings pane.

   For instructions, see Defining Use of Managed Network Views by Client Computers.

9. If you want to make the network view visible immediately on client computers, click Layout, and then select Enabled.
10. Click Save.