[Samba] profiles migration

Misty Stanley-Jones misty at borkholder.com
Wed Dec 8 15:03:30 GMT 2004


On Wednesday 08 December 2004 09:01, Thomas Constans wrote:
> hello
>
> i am actually working on migrating a windows 2000 active directory to
> samba v3, ldap backend
>
> so far i have successfully "vampirized" account information in my ldap
> tree.
>
> i am looking for a way to migrate roaming profiles.
>
> simple copy does not work ( it complains about files being in use ).
>
> moving profile from system properties is not automated enough since it
> is on a per user basis.

Change the SID of the new PDC to be the same sid that the AD server has.  Then 
the simple copy (zip them up and scp is more likely) will work.

Misty


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