Help? We've recently moved from a Windows PDC to Samba, and we need to migrate user profiles from the old controller to the samba server. Unfortunately, whenever we try this (by using smbtar to recursively copy the files from the old controller to the profile directory on the samba server), we get an error similar to the following: "Cannot copy file \\sambaserver\share\profile\somefile to C:\\documents and settings\usernameto C:\\documents and settings\username\somefile. Access is denied. After searching google for a while, I've found this question *many* other times...but I haven't seen any answers. If we start with an empty profile directory, a new configuration gets created without a problem. What's creating the problem when we try to migrate the old configuration? Thanks! -- Lars -- _ _ Lars Kellogg-Stedman <lars@colltech.com> |_| Collective |_| <http://www.colltech.com/> |_ technologies _| [] []
> Help? > > We've recently moved from a Windows PDC to Samba, and we need to migrate > user profiles from the old controller to the samba server. Unfortunately, > whenever we try this (by using smbtar to recursively copy the files from the > old controller to the profile directory on the samba server), we get an > error similar to the following: > > "Cannot copy file \\sambaserver\share\profile\somefile to C:\\documents and > settings\usernameto C:\\documents and settings\username\somefile. Access is > denied. > > After searching google for a while, I've found this question *many* other > times...but I haven't seen any answers. > > If we start with an empty profile directory, a new configuration gets > created without a problem. What's creating the problem when we try to > migrate the old configuration?You can't copy profiles like noramal files. in ntuser.dat an else ware the DOMAIN-SID and other things are stored. And if they do not mach the changed PDC your are in trouble. You can / have to use the tools profiedet be NT /W2K to move profiles. They should be some where in the user-Settings (??? Christian> > Thanks! > > -- Lars > > -- > _ _ > Lars Kellogg-Stedman <lars@colltech.com> |_| Collective |_| > <http://www.colltech.com/> |_ technologies _| > [] [] > > > > > > -- > To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the > instructions: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba >_(_)_ wWWWw _ @@@@ (_)@(_) vVVVv _ @@@@ (___) _(_)_ @@()@@ wWWWw (_)\ (___) _(_)_ @@()@@ Y (_)@(_) @@@@ (___) `|/ Y (_)@(_) @@@@ \|/ (_)\ / Y \| \|/ /(_) \| |/ | \ | \ |/ | / \ | / \|/ |/ \| \|/ jgs|// \\|/// \\\|//\\\|/// \|/// \\\|// \\|// \\\|// ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^