Mailing List Archive: migrating filers between windows 2000 domains

Hi,

Has anyone sucessfully migrated filers from Windows 2000 Mixed mode domain eg. abc.com to a newly created Windows 2000 Native Mode domain eg. "gbc.com".

We have migrated all the users from abc.com to the new domain gbc.com. Migrating computers is also underway sucessfully using aelita DMW tools.

Now as far as we tried on a filer version 6.1.1 ,migrating filers between windows 2000 domains deletes all the shares and corrupts all the permissions. Wondering what will happen to ACLS of Terabytes of data.
SIDHist of all the users are being maintained while they were migrated.. Only these toasters are left..

Netapp documentation also doesnt help much except for telling about about support for Windows 2000 Active Directory native mode in regarsd to migrating between domains.

Any kind of help will really appreciated.

Rahul

EDS PLM Solutions

Hi,

Can someone help me with cifs setup into win2k native mode from Mixed
mode

CIFS local server is shutting down...
Fri Oct 25 23:35:08 IST [rc:info]: Connection with DC \\AD01 terminated
Fri Oct 25 23:35:08 IST [rc:info]: CIFS local server has shut down...
evalfiler> cifs setup
Enable CIFS access to the filer by a Windows(tm) PC
Your filer is visible to all systems using WINS.
The WINS name servers currently configured are:
10.10.1.198
Do you want to modify this list? [no]:
This filer is currently configured as a Multiprotocol filer.
Do you want to configure this filer as a NTFS-only filer? [no]:
This filer is currently a member of the domain 'EVAL'
If you want to change the name of the filer, or change
the filer's domain membership, you must delete its
existing account information.
Do you want to delete the existing filer account information? [no]: yes
The default name of this filer will be 'EVALFILER'.
Do you want to modify this name? [no]:
CIFS supports three types of user authentication:
1. Windows Domain authentication.
2. Windows Workgroup authentication using the filer's user
accounts.
3. /etc/passwd and/or NIS based authentication.
What type of authentication will this filer use? [1]:
The filer will use Windows Domain authentication.
Enter the Windows Domain for the filer []:ABC
CIFS - could not determine domain type. Assuming NT4 domain. (Although
its a native mode)
CIFS - Connecting filer to the NT4 domain.
Fri Oct 25 23:36:59 IST [nbns_timer:info]: All CIFS name registrations
complete for local server
Fri Oct 25 23:37:01 IST [rc:info]: Connection with DC \\ADDC001
established
Fri Oct 25 23:37:03 IST [rc:info]: CIFS - machine password changed on DC
\\ADDC001
CIFS - Connecting to domain controller.
Welcome to the ABC domain.

CIFS local server is running.