Naming Standards/Conventions

[Bigtimbre]

Hello Everyone!
I've got more of a discussion question than a problem. I'm currently going through a NDS Design and Implementation class as i make my way towards CNE. We've begun discussing Naming Standards documents, and it got me wondering. Does a universal convention exist? There are some things, like Novell lists file servers as FS in the books, but is there one standard that people adhere too? I know that VB programmers have a standard convention that they adhere too, but I haven't been able to find any such thing for the Networking/Novell world....
So I was wondering what sort of standard you all use....

[MacGyver]

Refer to this: http://developer.novell.com/research...4/february/01/

Basically as the article says, there is no standard naming convention. However it is important to adopt one for your particular company. Our company has elected to name its servers in this way:

CAYYZ01

Where CA is the two letter abbreviation for Canada, YYZ is the airport code for Toronto, and 01 is the server number with lower numbers meaning more important servers. Number 01 is the main server in that city.

We have a server in Seattle, it's named USSEA01. Our workstations are similarly named CAYYZWS001 and so on, the WS stands for workstation.

You can get really anal and name all of your objects in this way, however you need to make it uncomplicated for your users. Our printer queues are named very simply, like PLOTTER or HP5000N so an end user setting up a printer can find the queue they should be using. Not some crazy name like CAYYZPR01.

Something we have found beneficial is to make each user's login name their full name (first name, space, last name). This prevents problems since we have about 5 people all with the first name Mark. People move around a lot between offices, so this makes it easy to move user's accounts without worrying about conflicting with an existing user in that office.