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...am wondering if that might be a way to go... Connect the 2 machines - they shouldn't be at that time in the LAN - via a CrossOver Cable Then start rsync on the machine that should putt he datas to the new machine like this: rsync --verbose --progress -r -u -Hav /from/the_old_machine/ /to_the/new_machine Ist the technically way okay and mor important is: Is the rsync command I wrote correct? If not, I hope someone might be willing and able to help me. Thanks a lot Niels

...atures' of UNIX account is required for 'workstation account' (as in NT domain). The furthest I coud get to pin-point the requirements, is the pdbedit source (source/utils/pdbedit.c), where we have two functions: 1) new_used(*context, *name, *full_name, *home, *drive, *script, ...); 2) new_machine(*context, *name); Both will create relevant LN/NT passwords as they complete their tasks. Apart from that, 'user' *must* access server-host filesystem, so it definitely needs UID/GID recognized by host kernel. 'machine' doen't need that, true? Apparently, the 'ultimate DB...

I am slowly migrating the data etc off an old CentOS32 4.x server to a new CentOS64 5.x server. The old server only has 15Gbyte of its hard drive in use. Is there an easy/safe way to copy the entire contents of old server root directory to a directory on the new server for future reference? Most of the data is various test files, perl scripts, etc. scattered all over.