Migration Tool for NetWare…

Is used to migrate NetWare

  1. users,
  2. groups,
  3. selected files and directories,
  4. and rights on files and directories (security)

to Windows NT domains.

Migration tool for NetWare will not migrate:

Prerequisites for using NWCONV.EXE:

The destination drive on the NT server must be NTFS to successfully migrate file and directory security information from the NetWare server.

  1. Migration Tool for NetWare Is accessed from the command line (NWCONV.EXE) It is located in the \WINNT\system32 folder
  2. The main Migration Tool for NetWare screen.

    Press the ADD button and you get this Select Servers for Migration dialog box:

The User and Group dialog box allows you to customize how users and groups will be transferred.
Click User Options on the Main screen to access User and Group Options:


 

The default setting is to migrate all users and groups.


Let's go through all the tabs here to review the options and DEFAULT for each:

1. Password migration (Click on the Passwords tab see above)

There is also a checkbox for "User must change password at next logon."

None of this is very secure, so you can use a mapping file to specify passwords - see the Use Mappings File below.

2. Duplicate user names (Click on the Usernames tab)

By default, users with duplicate user names will not migrate. The following options are available:

3. Duplicate group names (Click on the Group names tab)

By default, duplicate group names will be ignored and will not migrate. The following options are available:

4. Account restrictions (policies and profiles) (Click on the Defaults tab)

5. User account mapping file (Click on the "User Mappings in file check box")

Allows you to specify

[users]

OldNetWareName, NewNTName, NewNTPassword

[groups]

OldNetWareGroupName, NewNTGroupName

 

6. Configuring File Options for Migration

 

To change this, click on New Share:

NOTE:
 If you choose to migrate to a FAT partition, the NetWare file permissions will not migrate

Clicking Files allows you to specify which files to transfer:

7. Trial migration and error logging

When you are ready to perform the migration, Migration Tool for NetWare will allow you to perform a trial migration. This will give you a chance to correct errors and will not actually write data.

Logfile.log will always log all errors. The following error logging options are also available: