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/ 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

-----Original Message----- From: Don.Hickey@alcatel.com [mailto:Don.Hickey@alcatel.com] Sent: Friday, March 22, 2002 8:08 AM To: toasters@mathworks.com Subject: Migrating NT directories...

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!