[Samba]UPDATE: Copying Windows 2K & XP Profi....

[Robert Adkins]

Guido Lorenzutti wrote:
> You change the domain and ONLY fix the unix permissions and you expect 
> this to work?  Dream on :)
    I expected to find out what would happen. Nobody replied so I needed 
to give it a try.
  
>
> If you need a hand, I will try to help you, I have to do this on 1800 
> users a few days a go, but is to long to write if you don't need it.
>
    Sounds great! I still have a handful of users to switch over and a 
few of them are absolute bears if their stuff isn't "exactly" the same, 
all the time.

    -Rob

> Robert Adkins wrote:
>> Robert Adkins wrote:
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>>    In my effort to make the switchover as smooth as possible, I am 
>>> thinking that I could copy a user's roaming profile off their 
>>> workstation to the profile share on the Samba 3.x server, set the 
>>> permissions and then take the workstation off the old domain, put it 
>>> on the new domain and then login with the user and just like that, 
>>> be done with it.
>>>
>>>     Is this going to be problematic or is there something I could be 
>>> missing that will cause this to backfire on me?
>>>