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Title: Lazy Admin tools, can they export a user list or manage computer accounts?
Post by: jptechnical on September 05, 2008, 04:48:53 PM

1] I was wondering if the Lazy Admin Tools can export a list of users and groups into a script that can be then run on another box?
2] Also, can you use it (or any method for that matter) to export a list of computer trust accounts that you can then insert into another service instance?

Reason I ask, I am trying to replicate the user and computer schema from one server to a second disparate network so a user with his laptop can roam from one domain to another and be able to login to the server as if he were already a domain member.

Thanks.

Title: Re: Lazy Admin tools, can they export a user list or manage computer accounts?
Post by: Franco on September 05, 2008, 06:05:49 PM

It can export and import the users account but not the trust accounts.
You should look at the affa contrib to do the job.

Title: Re: Lazy Admin tools, can they export a user list or manage computer accounts?
Post by: janet on September 06, 2008, 07:02:15 AM

jptechnical

It's difficult/practically impossible to selectively backup parts of sme server config (including users & machine accounts), due to the way sme stores user info in many different files.

If it's only a one off requirement, then any of the standard backup & restore methods will work, although everything on the second server will be overwritten (or it should be as you are supposed to restore to a fresh install of sme server OS).

If you only want to transfer the config have a look at this
http://wiki.contribs.org/Backup_server_config

Title: Re: Lazy Admin tools, can they export a user list or manage computer accounts?
Post by: jptechnical on September 06, 2008, 07:28:27 AM

Thanks Mary, good notes... that link also answered a whole mess of questions I had on some backup points.