Migrating macs from one AD domain to another

[Ambrose]

Our organisation is soon to go through a domain migration from one Active Directory (single label domain) to a new fully-qualified Active Directory domain, and I’m planning the Mac client migration for our Leopard desktops.

One of the immediate problems we’ve encountered is with the user Home Folders which aren’t networked and reside on the individual desktops – once I unbind the machine from one domain and rebind to the other, the owner of the Home Folder then shows as “(unknown)” and the group is also “(unknown)”. Presumably this is something to do with a mismatched UID?

My question is – is there any way to update the permissions on each Home Folder to match the user (of the same username) logged in to the new AD domain without having to chown each Home Folder individually?

Thanks in advance
Ambrose

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