[Samba] Moving user accounts from a domain to another - andchanging their logins

Alex Harrington alex at longhill.org.uk
Mon Jun 25 13:56:05 GMT 2007


Hi Francis

> I don't know that much about Windows accounts, but one thing I 
> learned is that the SID is hugely important. As some 
> directories/files are named after the SID in a user's profile, I 
> figure that they are part of the problem, if not the main problem.

It's not something I've done personally - but the place I used to work
used the MS Migration Tool for migrating profiles etc...

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=4af2d2c9-f16c-4
c52-a203-8daf944dd555&displaylang=en 

Alex

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Alex Harrington - IT Support, Longhill High School

t: 01273 304086 | e: alex at longhill.org.uk


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