[Samba] XP Machines/profiles/migration issues

[Jim Wharton]

I have the reskit. I just need to look into using that tool. Do you remember
the name off hand?

Jim
----- Original Message -----
From: "John H Terpstra" <jht at samba.org>
To: "Buchan Milne" <bgmilne at cae.co.za>
Cc: "Jim Wharton" <creole3 at bellsouth.net>; <samba at samba.org>
Sent: Saturday, April 05, 2003 5:46 PM
Subject: Re: [Samba] XP Machines/profiles/migration issues


> 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.
>
> - John T.
>
> > >
> >
> > You can do it from the NT Control Panel->System->Profiles.
> >
> > The reason I suggested using the profiles tool from samba3 is that the
> > previous poster had a problem with SIDs on his existing profiles on his
> > domain controller. In this case, you will probably want to have the
> > current profile retained. While you could go around to each workstation,
> > and guess on which workstation each user most recently logged into, and
> > copy that profile to the server, I think it would be a lot less effort,
> > and more reliable to do this on the server.
> >
> > Note that the tool is only called profiles3 the Mandrake samba3
packages,
> > where we use the major version suffix to prevent clashes with the
binaries
> > from the standard samba (2.2.x) packages to allow simultaneous
> > installation. It's normal name should be 'profiles'
> >
> > Regards,
> > Buchan
> >
> >
>
> --
> John H Terpstra
> Email: jht at samba.org