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: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba
