Check
out Quest Software's Fastlane DM Consolidator. Excellent tool that
migrates local users, groups, file permissions, and changes SIDS. http://www.quest.com/fastlane/consolidator/
Used successfully on several NT file server migrations. Very quick,
too.
If
you're using just global NT groups for security and don't have to recreate local
groups and users, a simple backup and restore preserving file permissions would
work as well. Assuming your backup software preserves the NT ACLs (some
don't), and the filer volume uses NT style permissions as
well.
-warren
Warren Walsh
Honeywell Laboratories
Information
Technology
612-951-7837
warren.walsh@honeywell.com
Basic
question.... what tools are commonly used to migrate NT directories with
complex permission sets? NT is not very good at preserving permission's.
I'm looking at the best method of migrating NT group directories, many
of which have very specific file permissions.
I've tried tools such as dumpacl but many of the
functions don't work against the filer. I'm running 6.1.1R2 on clustered
840's.
Thanks!