[Samba] XP Machines/profiles/migration issues

Buchan Milne bgmilne at cae.co.za
Sat Apr 5 21:59:21 GMT 2003


On Sat, 5 Apr 2003, John H Terpstra wrote:

> On Sat, 5 Apr 2003, Buchan Milne wrote:
> 
> > On Wed, 2 Apr 2003, Jim Wharton wrote:
> >
> > > Would it be possible to use this tool (profile3) to copy an NT4 profile to a
> > > 2000 box? It must be possible to do it since MS can do it during an upgrade.
> > > Does anyone know of a tool for this.
> 
> NT4 profiles are ver different from Windows 200x/XP profiles. The MS
> Windows 200x Server resource kit contains a tool for migrating of NT4 to
> Win2K type profiles.
> 
> It might be worth just checking this out to avoid side effects from
> profile migration from NT4 to Win2K.
> 

Ahh, I had assumed this was to be for further use by WinNT4 clients 
served by the 2k server ...

A more specific description of the ultimate goal would be better ...

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