Koozali.org: home of the SME Server
Legacy Forums => General Discussion (Legacy) => Topic started by: snig64 on August 25, 2005, 10:55:40 AM
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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. :P 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.
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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
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> 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.
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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.