I am sort of working on this problem, as well as getting user auth from an NT domain.
this is what i have come up with so far.
1) rsync the /home/e-smith/files/* to the new server
2) use lat-dump and lat-restore on the new server
3) copy /etc/passwd and /etc/shadow to the new server
4) restart
im not sure if this is the most elegant way to do this, but it seems to work for me. one of my goals it to make a shell script for the above as well as automatic fail over.
let me know if this works for you, cc_skavenger. i am sort of using you to test my idea
--Brad D.