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brown

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I have a new server a dell 2950 with OS windows 2003 on it, the old server has windows pro 2000. I was wondering is there is a tool i could use to transfer users and groups along with the permissions to these groups from the old to the new. any help any one can give me would be greatly appriciated. thanks
 
i assume the windows 2000 server is a dc? if so, just promote the new server into the same domain. And everything will be replicated. Then demote the old server.
 
Vipernitrox said:
i assume the windows 2000 server is a dc? if so, just promote the new server into the same domain. And everything will be replicated. Then demote the old server.
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You would have to set up replication first and then make sure DNS and IPs are good to go, then promote and demote but yeah that is the basic idea.

LDAP is pretty much standard across every platform.

Another way would be to export then import your LDAP
 
yea i should've explained that a little more. these kind of things have become so familiar to me over the last couple of years i tend to automatically skip things :P.
 
This server is just a file server and not a domain controller I was wondering if there is software to get this done
 
brown said:
This server is just a file server and not a domain controller I was wondering if there is software to get this done
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Networking and transfer over SMB.....? That would be the easiest way. Are there ACLs or anything funky on the data on that file server?
 
can I use the Networking and transfer over SMB to tranfer users and groups along with there permissions?
 
brown said:
can I use the Networking and transfer over SMB to tranfer users and groups along with there permissions?
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That would be ACLs (access control lists) and permissions.

When you say users and groups, what do you mean? Is this not an Active Directory server?
 
brown said:
yes active directory server just not a domain controller
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Then you want to promote and demote like mentioned before. Even though your AD server does not need to run DNS since you can get DNS from a different box, you need to still have proper DNS and IPs set up on your new system. When you add it to the directory it should synchronize the LDAP to the replica. Once it replicates then you can Promote your new server to the AD master and demote your old Master back down to a replica. Then keep your old server running as a just in case box, just in case the new server ever crashes.
 
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