Topic: backup domain controller and/or upgrading from NT4

[snig64]

I Googled and searched the forum on how to setup a backup domain controller for SME but have not seen anything. Can someone help me on how to setup a SME server to be a BDC?

I'm also interested if anyone has information on how to upgrade from NT4 to SME. I.E. move all the user list over to SME without having to do it manually. This company only has 50 users, but I don't want to do it all manually! I am aware how to copy all the users files to the /home directory from the current /netlogon directory but I need advice on how to transfer the usernames to SME... easily.

[idp_qbn]

You can extract a list of usernames and other data from an NT server using a utility called adduser.exe (from the NT resource kit)
see http://www.ss64.com/nt/addusers.html for the options.

adduser can dump user details to a CSV file, or create users from a CSV file (CSV=Comma Separated Value eg [x1, x2, x3, x4] is a CSV list)

Thsi would give you the list of users. You then need a utility to add users from a CSV file to teh SME server. I've got you half-way....

Cheers
Ian

[raem]

> You then need a utility to add users from a CSV
> file to teh SME server. I've got you half-way....

That utility would probably be the Lazy Admins Toolkit (LAT) . Search here for the contrib and read the instructions carefully.

[bubbers214]

Anyone know how to solve the backup domain controller issue?  By accident someone deleted all the home user accounts on our SME so i had to restore from backup, but by doing that I had readd allthe machines to the domain, hence losing all windows user profiles, so i would really like to know how to setup a BDC.