Re: Win2K Migration

From: david (yeodavid_at_gmail.com)
Date: 01/27/05 

Date: 26 Jan 2005 16:15:40 -0800

> Or do ACLs need to be migrated?

Converted. So that old ACLs point to the NEW
SID of the 'same' (in human terms) user.

Any pointers on how this is done?

Herb Martin wrote:
> "david" <yeodavid@gmail.com> wrote in message
> news:1106773162.305900.190720@z14g2000cwz.googlegroups.com...
> > I'm confused as to what needs to be replicated when migrating from
a
> > Win2K machine to another Win2K machine. We only have local user
> > accountsthat need to be moved and no domain controller.
>
> What do you WANT to be replicated?
>
> Why are you "migrating"?
>
> Could you better upgrade (and even change hardware)?
>
> > I first used addusers.exe to recreate the accounts on the new Win2K
> > server. The accounts seem to have been created successfully;
however
> > when I use robocopy to copy directories and their NTFS permissions,
it
> > seems robocopy fails to associate the directories with the correct
> > users on the new server.
>
> Users on different machines are NOT the "same users".
>
> > Is this due to the SIDs not having been migrated?
>
> Yes, users on the new machines get NEW SIDs and
> so are technically different users.
>
> > Is it possible to
> > migrate the SIDs?
>
> Not from server to server.
>
> > Or do ACLs need to be migrated?
>
> Converted. So that old ACLs point to the NEW
> SID of the 'same' (in human terms) user.
>
> > Since we don't use
> > Active Directory I'm assuming the ADMT is ruled out.
>
> Why do this at all?
>
> --
> Herb Martin

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