The part of a DCE name that occurs after a junction into a DCE application is the application name. DFS and security names are the currently supported examples; in the future, application programmers may also be able to create junctions in the namespace.
DFS names occur after the DFS junction. They are typeless and resemble UNIX file system names. After the global and CDS parts of a DFS name have been resolved by the appropriate directory services, the rest of the DFS name is handled within the DFS. In the equivalent examples that follow, /usr/snowpaws is the DFS part of the DCE name:
/.../dce.osf.org/fs/usr/snowpaws
/.:/fs/usr/snowpaws
/:/usr/snowpaws
Security names are similar to DFS names; first the parts of the name within the DCE Directory Service are resolved, then the rest of the name is handled by the security service. The entry is contained in the security registry database. Consider the following:
/.:/sec/principal/ziggy
In this example, the security part of the DCE name is /principal/ziggy.