Removing a server from NDS where it is no longer available due to hardware failure etc. involves DSREPAIR -A.  The Novell TID's tell you to do it in NWADMIN or NDS Manager but that doesn't work if the server isn't available and has replicas on it but here is a way of doing it, straight from Novell's mouth:

Firstly on the Master server for relevant partition then when complete on every server with a replica of the same partitions on:

load dsrepair -a

• Select Advanced Options, View replica ring
• Select the server to be removed and hit Enter
• Select Remove this server from the replica ring
• Agree to the dire warning about destroying your NDS tree!

Check each server to see that dead server has been removed from replica ring then on each server:

load dsrepair -xk3

• Advanced Options
• Repair Local Database
• Set Rebuild Operational Schema to Yes, others left on defaults
• Keep running Repair until there are no errors remaining (3, 4 or more times)
• Exit DSRepair

set dstrace=on
set dstrace=+blink
set dstrace=+part	Show parition operations
set dstrace=*b		Rebuild backlinks
set dstrace=*U		Mark all servers as Up in database temporarily.

• Wait for each server to Rebuild backlinks successfully on DStrace screen (rerun *B to check if it scrolls off).
• Run NDS Manager and remove the server
• Run NW Admin and remove the volumes and any other objects left from that server.

or try http://www.novell.com/coolsolutions/nds/features/a_basics_removing_servers.html

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