Suggestions on a Fresh Start with OS 10.3 X-server G5

[Ao]

The company I work for has recently purchased an X-Serve G5, and I am in the process of reformatting it and installing the 2 hard drives in Raid-1 (Mirrored). Also, we have about 15 users who log into a Windows NT4 PDC computer, and I need to either migrate them, migrate their application settings, or start completely clean. Personally, I’d like to wipe it all, but they for some reason want their profiles. We tried migration before (without the mirrored drives) and had troubles with Samba and Win2k. Mostly read-write and permissions errors. Anyways, if people have suggestions, please let me know!

[woody]

[quote=”Ao”] … Also, we have about 15 users who log into a Windows NT4 PDC computer, and I need to either migrate them, migrate their application settings, or start completely clean. ….[/quote]

I`m doing just a similar job here and we had trouble with the upgrade to 10.3.4.
I have had trouble to add the machine accounts for NT4 (Servicepack6a) Clients to the samba PDC (OD Master, Windows-Computerlists). XP-Clients worked without any problems.
I`ve made a clean install with 10.3.3 and now it works fine. Seems to be a problem with the last update. I contacted AppleSupport and they promised an answer until next week. So be careful with the update.

[woody]

I have done some more testing now. My first idea, that the reason was the 10.3.4 Comboupdate seems to be wrong.
I made an upgrade to 10.3.4 now in my testing environment and there are no problems in creating machine accounts for NT4 clients.
Maybe it¥s the security update, that¥s offered by apple after the upgrade.

[Ao]

Well, we wipied the g5, then we were about to start moving over profiles when I came across a [url=http://images.apple.com/server/pdfs/Migrating_from_Windows_NT.pdf] NEW DOCUMENT on Windows Conversion[/url] (WARNING: PDF File) at [url=http://www.apple.com/server/documentation/] Apple’s Server Documentation Site[/url] I went to a longer dinner, and read through it. It was a great help, but not quite an exact step-by-step guide. I’m pretty happy, it works great. The only downside was I spent a good month and a half trying to figure out the migration steps, and Apple’s horrible tech support did nothing but put me on hold, all the while they were working on this document.

In the end, I’m a satisfied Xserve G5 admin now

They should make a movie about it, and call it “You just got X-Served!”
😀

[Spectrum]

I’d be VERY interested in knowing how you got that to work. Considering I spent 3 weeks attempting the same thing.

How did you export the users from the NT domain? Did you also export User SID? I got hung up a bit there since the pdf is blatently incorrect. There is no way to export NT users with User Manager for Domains.

I did find some NTRK tools to do that, but without the SID. However, the description of the import file structure in the pdf lacks sufficient information to properly set up the file for import and I subsequently was unable to perform any importations.

My problems really stem from the fact that I need the user SID as well because I need to maintain Exchange as the mail service. This is primarily due to the fact that there is no native unified messaging service provider for OSX.

[Ao]

Not sure what to tell you Spectrum, we made new profiles and kept everyone’s application preferences the same by just migrating those.

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